[ { "id": 217064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Pas \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nThe \n\nFriend of \n\nQuina SUPPLMENT TO No. 75. \n\nHong Kong Gajette, \n\nVICTÒRIA, HONG-KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1843. \n\nREPORT of Cases treated in the VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN, \n\nfor the momh ending, 19th August, 1843. \n\nDiseasDa \n\nAdmitted. \n\nDischarg. \n\ned relier. \n\nInitammation of the Liver. \n\nInflammation of the Brain. \n\nDelirium Tremens. \n\nDysentery. \n\nUlorrhoea. \n\nFever.. \n\nRácuratism. \n\nConsumption. \n\nVenereal \n\nTOTAL \n\nכני \n\nDischarg. \n\ned oured, \n\nD 0 \n\n(*) This Paliom left the Hospital contrary to the advice of the Surgeons, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 20th August, 1845. \n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY \n\nOF LONDON. \n\nTHE Undersigned having been, appointed Agents in China, for the above Company, are prepared to accept. Assurances at Hong-Kong, as under: \n\n1st-On Buiklings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal of other incombustible material, together with their contents, when such Bniklogs are isolate! from all others. \n\nRate of Premium, 3 per cent, per annum, 2xD.--On such Buildings and their contents, when not so isolated, at the rate of 1 per cent. per ann Assurances for 6 months † 7 of the annual rate, will! \n\nand for 3 months, į 3be charged. \n\nOf the 1st Class, Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one risk. And of the 2nd Chies, to the extent of £3000. \n\nrisk. \n\nA Building and its contents taken together, form one Thas the above suns may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the contents alone; on, part on the Building, and part on the contents. \n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in foron until the Premiam be paid. \n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured will be entitled to participate in the profits after five successive payments. \n\nParties applying for Assurances will please send in full particulars of the risk to be taken; any deviation. from which, without the censent of the Company, will vitiate the Policy. \n\nJARDINE, MATILESON. & Co., \n\nAgents in China, \n\nMocan, 12th July, 1863, \n\nNOTICE. \n\nThe undersigned in connexion with Mn PareICK CHALMERS at present in England, has this day estal- Jished a house of Agency in China, under the firm of AKPRUSON, CHALMERS & Co. \n\nMacao, 1st July, 1843. \n\nJ. S. ANDERSON, \n\nFOR SALE. CHAIN Cables, Europe Rope, Wines, Spirits, Stores of every description, Dressing Glasses, Plate Glass and Warm Clothing, \n\nALFRED HUMPHREYS, \n\n20. Queens Road. \n\nHong Kong, 1st August, 1848, \n\nNOTICE--The un forsignal is authorized by \n\nflis Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Land Forces in China, to recsivo al pack- ngem adresaid to the Officers or Messes of any of the Regiems ployed during the late war. \n\nN. LUGS. \n\nlong-Kong, 15th April, 1842 \n\nOne half per cent, Commission will be charged upon all Goods bought in. \n\nProceeds of Arconat Sales will be rendered fifteen hys after Sale, or sooner if realizeal. \n\nQueen's Road, Hong-Kong, kat Juno, 1843. \n\nXO. W. BENNETT, \n\nJUST RECEIVED, AND FOP SALE. BEEF, Pork. Flour and Bread, Brandy and Wines, Cherry Cordial Vinegar, Rum, and Anack, Beer in Cask, Sales &c. \n\nRice. Singapore Plunks, \n\nSpesin Candles. Tlouse-iltings. \n\nManda Timber, Sheathing Copper, \n\nAmerican and Castile Spip, \n\nTobacco, Raisins, Spirits Turpentine, Tar, Rusin, and I'l \n\nBlack, White, Brown, and Drab Flats. \n\nP. TOWNSEND, \n\nHong-Kong, 31st July, 1943. \n\nti \n\nDead. \n\nRetain \n\ning in the \n\nHospital. \n\n[ \n\n幾 \n\nJ SATCHELL, M. D, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon. \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D., Resident Asst. Physician & Surgeon, \n\nD. WILSON & Co., \n\nBEG to intimate to the Gentlemen of Hong-Kong that they have From thus, date opened their Billiard Room to be Pullic. \n\nPRICE OF THE GAMES. Ese Ga \n\nFoun Two \n\nof 24 for One Dollar \n\n\" \n\nNight games double the above. \n\nN. B. No Credit will be allowed in the Biard Room \n\nVICTORIA, HONG-KONG \n\n1st August 1848 \n\nD. WILSON & Co. \n\nAVE just received a fresh supply of Allsop's Lutin Ale, sound Chadder Chinese, Perfumery, Stationery, and a variety of ather articles. \n\nVICTORIA, Roxo-Kong, \n\n1st August, 1843. \n\nJUST Landed and for SALE. \n\nAlachines. \n\nApply to \n\n20, Quren's Road, Victoria, 2nd August. 1843 \n\nwo \n\nWeighing \n\nALEX. MOSY, \n\nNOTICE Goons and Merelmedio of all descrip \n\ntions received and curetilly stored ia sparions dry and secure Brick Godowns situated on the Queen's Road No. 20, at Hongkong, upon moderate terris. \n\nApply upon the premises to. \n\nALEX, MOSS. Goods are received and sold on Commission Hongkong, 2nd Angusi 1833, \n\nFOR SALE--Singapore Bears, on moderate \n\nApply to ALEX. MOSS, Hong Kong, 2d August, 1843, \n\nterms. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nIN consequence of the mytan! Dissolution of Part. nership betweeen Mesars, BENNETT, PAIN, & Co., the Undersigned bags to Notify, that the Busi ness will be cartiod on by lamseif, où the same Pre ruises, and most respectfully, solicits a continustee of the liberal support be has hitherto been favoured with Parties desinos në susting Goods for Pablie. Auction, are requested to, de so two days previous to the time of Sule. \n\nAuctions will be held every Friday. at Eleven A. 37, \n\nTerms-Five per Cent, at all. Goods. \n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL, \n\nFUR \n\nSEA MEN, \n\nNos. 1, 2, 3, Queen's Roud, immediately opposito Fearon's Wharf, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon, JAMES SATCHELL, M. D. Resident Assist, Physician, & Surgeon, \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D. \n\nTHE HOSPITAL is now open for the reception of i \n\nPatients, and is furnished with every convenience necessary for the comfort and speely recovery of the sick. \n\nPatients are admitted at any hour of the day or night, on production of an undertaking to defray the expenses inerrel, signed either by the Captain of the Vessel to which the sick person belongs, or a Member of some Mercantile Firo in Chica. No Patient çan \n\nbe admittcik without such an undertaking. \n\nTERMS For Medical attendance, Medicines, and \n\nProvisions. \n\nSeamen-One Dollar, \n\nOFFICERS--Two Dollars per day, Victoria, Hong-Kong, \n\n20th July, 1843. \n\nFOR SALE, REIGHT on CHARTER, \n\nTHE Fine A. 1. British Brig Iris,\" \n\n277 Tous N. M. Captain MERCE, \n\nApply to \n\nHOLLIDAY WISE, 4. Co. Victoria, Hongkong, 24th August, 1843, \n\nFOR LONDON. \n\nTHE A British bull Barque Mary Catherine\" Captain Taylor, having \n\nTur \n\na large portion of her cargo engaged will meet with quick despatch, generat freight or passage, baving supe- \n\nG. F. DAVIDSON. LINDSAY & Co. \n\nrior accommodations, apply here w \n\nAt Macao to \n\nFlong-Kong, 14th August, 1943. \n\nFOR AMOY AND CHUSAN. \n\nTHE Barque Lanusy Campbell, Capt. Darley Will Sail for the above Parts in ath this month--For Freight or pis- \n\nN. DEUS Apply to \n\n18. Queen's Road, Or to the Captain on lumed. \n\nsaga. \n\nVictor 2, Aogust 9th, 1943. \n\nFOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER. \n\nTHE A. L. Barque Extzaketh Moonn, W. 3isap Comunander, register ton. nage 241. \n\nFOR SALE. on board the Elizabeth Moniy,\" fod tons of Liverpool Coals, such as II. M Mail Steamors\" between Liverpool and fasiio, use. \n\nApply to 6, F. DAVIDSON. Hong-Kong, 2d, August, 1848. \n\nThe fist sailing British bult Brig \"NAUTILUS\" \"Captain Gibson, £33 toms Register, now ging at Hongkong, and ready to receive vargo. \n\nApply to FOX, BAWSON. & Co. \n\nBongkung 35th July, 1843. \n\nFOR-SALE. FLERGILE OR CuAXTER, \n\nTHE Clipper Bag ANOLESA, Capt. Rowland 10 Tons register, built at Ipswich, in 1840, & A. 1'de 13 years, has been newly coppered and is well found in stores Apply to the Captain on board; or to \n\nFOX, RAWSON, & Co. Hongkong, 25th. Jaly 1543. WANTED-fer the Gun Room Mess of 11. A. S. Cunwallis-a good Cook-either European or \n\nNalive. \n\nTestimonials at to character and efficiency will be required. \n\nFor further particulars, apply on board, butween the \n\nhouss of nine and twelve 4. N.\" \n\nH. M. S. Con wallis. \n\nAugust, 17th 1843. \n\nALL persons indebted to the firm of P. Townsend & Co. are desired to take immediate payment iv, \n\nP. TOWNSEND \n\nPR SALE. \n\nPRIME Bottled Beer. Apply in. \n\nPAIN & Co. \n\nFOR SALE. \n\nAr go. Secaes of Tus USDERSTORED. Prims Mess feeland Pork \n\nPaint and Paint End Torpentine and Tar Matlive Cair \n\nCalan api Slip Brend Superive Golden Sherry \n\nCockburts\" Port Wine \n\nClaret 31 Julen and Murgaux Hock. Bresar and Canignze \n\nBarton Ale in Cash and Bottle \n\nTumblers ani Wine Glasses \n\nSingapore planks \n\nBeaver and Sour Flats \n\nLaubes Mut, dilk stockings, Soilpe \n\nBrandy in Wood and Boitie \n\nAb assortment of Hosiery \n\nWah numerous other articles at moderate prices, \n\nNo. 2 Magistracy Street, \n\nPAIN &AG. \n\nTARIFF, PORT REGULATIONS &c. \n\nA few Cupies are still on SALE of No.71 of the Friend \n\nof China wad Hong Kong Gazette, contrining the Proclamation of His Excellency. Tariff, Government Notification. Table of Consular Fees &c. &c. \n\nAlso the Extraordinary of 31st July, Containing the Proclamation of the Chinese Commissioner, General, Regulations for the Ports, in Cléna, &c. &c. \n\nPrice—to Subscribers to the paper; each copy 25 pents, to non Subscribers 1 Rupeo. \n\nPAINTED AND I'encreuen For The ProPainTORS, NE rup Payaso Orvice, Querx's Rojo, Verona. \n\nWe are informed that Monsieur C. ALEX, CHALLAYE, Esa. ex Acting Consul for France in China, nas, by a decision of his Excellency Monsieur Guizot, Mi- nister for Foreign Affairs, bearing date the 14th March of the present year, her attached, in his capacity of Elove Consul, to the CoxsULATE ÚExEAL ci Franco in Egypt. \n\nINQUEST AUGUST 14TH, 1848. \n\nBEFORE MR. E. FARNCOMB. CORONER. \n\nFROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS. \n\nCrtSAR-August 4th, 1843. \n\nwere arenred under the Old System. They are, the Eliza, Mary, and Bahamian Business is very dull, New Congous are arriving, the quality good. \"Crop, \n\nNo matter of political import need be looked for in 650 Chops, 20 maels. Shout price about the rate. this quiet locality, we are becoming gradually acquint. Whilst the Export in April and May, was 174 millions ed with the denems of a great intercourse, the \n\nof lbs., in 29 ships, the probable Export of 3 months, friendly disposition of the people favors it, and the June, July, and August, in 5 ships, is about 3 mil perfeet reliance which they place in the honour and hops of the integrity of British dealers, leads to the fervent hope LocAL Nuws-The British Flag was re-hosted at the that it may never be destroyed by questionable trave Consulate, on the 14th inst. \n\nOfficial responsibility to actions. \n\nthe Chinese, for the payment and collection of their \n\nThis was an inquest on the body of James Prestoe, The only true system of trade is a liberal one, and duties, is an enormous thor, and wifi catail endles \n\nThere can be no greater fillacy, than for the faw, to use and vexation on the Conals. Here, I should who died suddenly in the Exchange Room The Jury aere summoned to attend on the evening of the suppose that the knowledge of commercial particulars, he will want fy Claks, when basintesis upon this coast can be limited to themselves, here active. The Consulate order, to prevent ship'a boots 12th (Saturday), but in consequence of the post mor the examination of the Body un bring concluded where ready money transections constantly obtain, the exting Her Majesty's) dig at the Old Company till a late bour and the Medical Report being requested simplicity of business render its details obvious aden, bas given as inch disgust to the skipper, \n\nit hus given satifaction to the residents. to be given in writing the Jugnest was deferred to enough to the most obtuse piserver. the 14th (Monday). The following evidence was then \n\nIt is with very deep regret, we have to announce the takon. Mr. J. W. Bennett, sworn, sąl \n\nde mise of J. A. Murder, Esq. He died on hard the General Work, on the siternoon of yesterday, after a severe illness of three weeks datarion. A wide circle of friends not acquaintances will bewail the loss of a truly kind-heartedman, and our commu - nity will deplore the loss of a valuable incraber. \n\ni was informed on Saturday at about 3 o'clock that James Preston the deceased was dying. The deceased kept the Exchange Roome for me. On my coming up to see him I found he bad expired. Daring the time that the depensed had born in my employ be had always conducted himself in a sober manner. I \n\ndischarged from the Hospital he secured weakly and when I saw him going about in the wet. I remon- strated with him, and told him that he ought to en- play a man for the purpose. \n\nA subject upon which we may congratulate ourselves is the continued bathy nature of this loculty ; out national selfishness leads us to regret that this valu- alle island is one day to be restored; its worth as a commanding position can scarcely bo over-rated. situated in a glorious climate, exempted from the ord nary riak of the elements, provided wah the most Secure and spacious harbours and in itself abondant- \n\nof the Chinese Empire, with such a possession what \n\ndo not know what his bubits of life had been before 7 productive, populated with a quiet industrious raceOS KEENASSA FALAN KUGELSESKPROT \n\namong whom rict, crime, my dishonesty, is scarcely 1 employed him. About five days previous to his docense, he had been sent to the Hospital of Messrs. Known a rural people castly governed, Imants each J. N. ANDERSON, begrepectfully to inform Satchell and Jenes, he bad them an eruption on his member of the community seems to know himself\" \n\nthe inhabitants of Victoria, and the public generally, and then if we might venture to speak of its political tha the has opened those premista next Mr. Boulle's skin, ou different parts of his body; en huis being inuener, within a few day's sail of the riches cities teen's Road, as a winlesale al rail wine and might not the genius and enterprise of Great Britain Strict attention to business, good Articles, and mode Spirit Store, and BILLIARD ROOM, and hopes, by rate elurges, to meet a share of Public Putronage. \n\nJ. N. A. begs respectfully to solicit the attention of the Naval and Military, as well as private Gention.co in Flong-Kong, to the Hilliard Room, which is Spaci ous and weil aired, and to state, that every possiblo attention on his part will be paid to the confort of those who may honour him with a visit. Victoria, 14th August, 1843. \n\nMr. Francis Dickens, sworn, \n\nI am Clerk to Mir. Bennett: I was present when the dencased died, he died in the Exchange Room. When I came into the room he was sitting in one of the chairs with his bead hanging over the fuck of the chair. I supported hun in my arms and spoken to him, but received no answer, his lips moved as if to spek but he could not do on, and his pulse was scar- cely perceptible, I called up a servant and he took hold of hie zal i went and fetched a Doctor. The deceased did not recognise one when I came up. \n\nAr J W. Beaned, Re-examined, A day or two before the deceased went to the Hos. pitul he complained to me of sickness and a pain in Jus heal. I administered to him an Emnetic which gave him considerable relief: the eruption afterwards appearing on his body, I advised him to go to the os pital. \n\nJamce Satchell, Surgeon, Sworn-The deceased was in the Hospital under my charge from the seventh to the eleventh instant. His eomplaint was that of a nettle rush and disordered bowels. When he left the Hospital he wna perfectly well but was weak. I was sent for on Saturday to sec bin and on my arrival at the Exchango Rooin he was dend. \n\n(Signed) \n\nThere was no possibility of forming an opinion us to the cause of his death without an internal examination. I consider that course was necessary. \n\nJ. SATCHELL, M. D. \n\nResident Surgeon, Victoria Seaman's Hospital. Charles Alexander Winchester, \n\nI am the Acting Colonial Surgeon.- produce a copy of the notes taken whilst examining the body of the deceased. The report was then read. \n\nOn the Coroner enquiring what was the cause of the deceased's death the witness said, \n\nThe signs in the brain led me to suppose that influm mutory action must have existed for serae considerable time before death, and from the evidence given, of a sgb-acute character. I consider the immediate enese of death to have ben the pressure of a very considerable \n\nquantity of serum found at the case of the brain, on that órgin (in other words) that it was a rese of serious upo, lexy. He must have enjoyed very irregular health Prom the state of the liver. \n\nf \n\n(Signed) \n\nCHARLES ALEXANDER WINCHESTER, \n\nActing Colonial Surgeon. The Evidence having been summed up, and the Jury being charged to consider their verdict it was returned, \n\nDied by the visitation of God. \n\neffect in this remote, but highly interesting, portion of the civilised world? \n\nThe recent intelligence from Woosung, the Port of Shanghai ( with which place we have constant com- unication) is to the effect, that a sumber of men are engaged in repairing the ruined fortifications. They were formerly of cud: we are given to under- stand that they are now being feed with granite, sonte of the Opium vessels have recently gone up to the northward, with the intention, doabitess, of establishing other trading stations; it is useless to talk of a limited number of parts for all the coast will be open. The people are eager to trade, and the Mandarina are at Present very cautious in their interference in this matter, nothing but urbanity and kindness is expe- rienced from these dignitaries; certainly upon this coast there exists every outward manifestation of a sincero desire for peace and aliianey. \n\nThe immense amount of native toumage which finds its way up the Shanghai river daily, is worthy of remark, as being one of the most protaient features in the Yangtze kiang: they come from North and Sound, but as yet we canunt obtain the particulars of trade the English Ships keep healthy up the river, but the heat has been ahaost insupportable this season. \n\nA very fair trade has been doing here both in Straits produce and manufactured goods PEPPER has averaged 50 25 per picul; Rarrans still selling at 85, Grey sorrisos 68 30, Wuerz 84, Pic Leap,on account of large stock is down to $5 50, Saxval wOOD, without inquiry, Rion 81 50 no sales. Opium market unsettled, MALWA $610. PATNA 8710 to 720-very lit tle on hand. Speaking of the latter article, vessels coming up here with a general cargo should not neglect to com- prise it, helping off, as it does, heavy stock, it becomes a voluable auxiliary occasionally Alarm has been offer. ed in quantity at $1 15 it will doubtless be available era long as a rough return and calculated for purposes of ballast. I have no doubt but return freight on eative account, might be obtained from Niagpo and other consular ports, indeed some I believe has already beca obtained. \n\nAmov,-11th August, 1943. \n\nVaer quantities of Piece Goods have been brought to this market from Hongkong, and prices have given way. Lose Ctorns, far whites. $350 to $3 60, Greys $2 90 to 83 10; Twist $27 to $29. OPIUM raining its price, and good Malwa sells readily at $625. Rice 100; a good harvest. \n\nCanton, 21st August, 1843. \n\nThe former Hong Merchants continue to decline ex- porting Tens under the New System, and all the out- side man, are afraid to begin. Three slups are being loaded with Teus, at 1 taels on the short price, but these \n\nJ. \n\nMc. MURRAY, Baker, Pastry Cook, 4. opposite the Godowns of W Scott, Esq., Lower Bazaar, begs to announce to the Public, til be car ries on business in the above named sivinity, and hopes to participate in that Public Patronage which it shall be his constant endeavour to deserve. \n\nN. B.-Parties can be supplied with Bread, Pastry, &c., on the shortest notice, also ship biscuit, \n\nHong-kong. 14th August, 1848. \n\nBakings of every description, carefully exe- exted, from cleven in the moring till five in the evening FOR SALE-Anchors and Chain Cables, \n\nCopper sheathing, and nails Claret, and flavona cigars Sperm. Candles, and Ainerican Soap Cabin Biscuity in Tins of 58 s. Brass & Iron Bedstewis. \n\nApply at the Godowns of Holliday Wise, of Co. JOHN RITSON. Victoria, 17th August, 1543 \n\nto \n\nFOR SALE-The bull, masts, yards, anchors, chains, &c. &c., of the Brigantine, Roza, now lying in Ilong Kong. \n\nThe above may be Sold together or separate. The vessel is seven years old built of American live oak, and would make an excellent receiving vessel in say of the new Ports, having also good accommodation for resi dence on board, \n\nApply to \n\nN. DUUS. (1 T. M. METCALFE. \n\nGINGER BEER \n\nMATUEUS DB COSTA & Co. respectfully intimate \n\nthat they have opened an establishment at Ne. B Webster's Bazaar for the sale of Ginger Beer prepared by a peculiar process from the best fresh finger; it will be found to retain in the fullest perfection all \"invigorat ing and refreshing qualities, parties requiring a regular supply at intervals, are requested to give noties, this will ensure their having beer in its best condition at the Line wanted. —— \n\nPreserved Provisious, Cigure, Soap, Cheese & other Groceries,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217233, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "No 29, of 1843. \n\nInclosure No. /in. Despatch \n\nI \n\nDear Sir, \n\nfor \n\nIn \n\nin 404 Hong Kong \n\nRECTED 439 \n\nMAR 8 1044 \n\nVictoria Honghong. \n\nbetoben 21th, 1843. \n\nnoplying to your application. Students of the Morrison. Education. Society to enter. H. B. M's Service, as interprators, attached to the Consulate at Shanghai, we cannot conceal the rmbarrasment which we feel regarding \n\nthe point in question. ; for while. \n\nbound. \n\non.. \n\nthe one \n\nwe are- \n\nhand, as guardians \n\nof the institution, to secure to the pupils thorough. an Education as possible, such as must require several years of \n\nas \n\nStudy, it is equally obligatory \n\non us \n\nat \n\nan early period, to provide. Stations for. them where they may \n\nmake some \n\nremuneration \n\nCaptain. George. Balfour, To. to. \n\nH. B. M. Contul Shanghai.. \n\nto Sin \n\nLetter \n\nSociety\" as \"Linguists.... \n\n9124 Polober, 1843. \n\nthe homson Education. \n\nHenry Bridgman, regarding qualification of Boys from endoting one from Ir Bollingern \n\nfrom. Cxplain. Balfour", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 467, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "\n\nSir tt Pottinger. \n\nCouth 920. Leaves \n\nLeaves o \n\nAbsence \n\nto fovernment officers. \n\nMr. A. R. Johnston granted sick leave to Europe for \n\none year with permission to apply for an extension. \n\nApist Sup and Councillor. \n\nHas no means \n\nof properly filling up Vacancies in Gort Offices \n\ncaused by dearh \n\nRutes \n\nto marrser \n\nof \n\nMe Morsioon, & absence of \n\nMr. Johnston \n\n& terms on which leaves of \n\ngreat want of. \n\nabsence should be practed.. \n\ncompleted his abestion \n\nGov. return pom Macao. ficed for the 10th Cot is heviney \n\nNew Farify and Fading Regulations. \n\nluct for hoker 23? Sept: /43 & chotructions to Convuls published therem \n\ndelays in Hoppe's Estabt._ Petition \n\nShips Mamfects - delays \n\nof ster Coolidge, Clamins of Hony Merchants & Je \n\nNr. 11 21. Ackn2 Deops Military Am. 14 11/43 - Cirt 28th Irme & 13th & 28th July las \n\nalso Featy of commerce &e Navigation between gr Britain and Russia. \n\nNov. 11:22. Public Agents \n\nPrize Money from China. \n\nto Desp: No. 1/48 Military. \n\nIn reply. \n\nluc! Correspond in explanation \n\nof the appt. of Public Agents and the deposit distribration & \n\nof China Prize Money. \n\nCapt Balfour \n\nto \n\npreppulation of an \n\nAmount \n\nHas called upon. \n\ndefend in conduct in \n\numauthored \n\ndiquuming the for! to his knowledge of and participation from in thy Printed statement (intern to fod & bab: ligents of Properly detained by Combined Forces aft China from 25th Ang us to 29th Cuptpx,_ of the estimated value of the Properly, unrealized, t of the amount (& disposal thereof) received to 15th norfer. \n\nCaptured \n\nor \n\nNov. 13: 23. Vacant Govt Appoint \n\nrefers to his Deep : 11/43. \n\nIn cont. of Deofs : 18/43 \n\nExplains his measures \n\nfor meeting difficulty in appoint to pacant offices. \n\nNov 13:23. \n\nSir My Pottinger. \n\nContimed \n\nAppointments & Couth. \n\nConnallers. \n\nInce \n\nPro: 21th Aught the notifying appont \n\nof Messrs Johnoton & Morrison & allajor Came as \n\nExecutive Legis: Councillors. \n\nColonial Secretary. \n\nRefers to his Deopr. 177201 \n\nRefers to his Drop: 11jus ener \n\nfort notification (214 Cing this) of Mr. J. A allorrions afft as Acting Coll Seat \n\nLegal Adviser #Govt and blerk of Lefi Counci \n\nas \n\nknot foot. Notification (20th Aug (43) of Mr. R. Burgast \n\n@ £800 par. \n\nLegal Adviser & \n\nLand Claims. fovernt notification: 20th Augt/43) of this \n\nappoint Mess's Gordon, Stewart, & Burgass & Captain \n\nde travelared dead) as \n\nCommittee of Enquiry into eve \n\nAfist Surveyor. &. \n\nQ \n\nety of \n\nMr. \n\nCleverly vice \n\nCapt. de Haviland @ £500 par. \n\nAdministration \n\nof \n\nGovt during his \n\nAbsence at Macao. \n\nhuct and explains fort. Notef? \n\n(24+ ang 4) retaining it in his own hands. \n\nHis protracted stay at Macao unavoidable. \n\nOutwards Correspond\" up to 13thorfus with an Index. \n\nIntends to forward. \n\nSupp: Treaty with China ratified by- I in daily expectation of. Major Pottinger. \n\nBetra Aid -de Camp. \n\nas from 14 Sept 74. \n\nColl Surgeon. \n\nThe Emperor. \n\nWill forward it by \n\nApp of Major E. Pottinger foot notice 20 Octfus. \n\nAppt. of M. A.Anderson from t \n\nfor notice 20 Octifus. \n\n000740 Agrist Coll. Surgeon. \n\nfort notice 20. Actifus. Surgeon \n\nric Winchester. \n\nAppt of Dr. Wanchester. \n\nApp? also as \n\n6 Amoy Consulate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219680, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "aused to be prepared the amended \n\nI raft now transmitted to us for our \n\nConsideration. \n\nthat your Lordship apprehends that in adverting to the want of precision in the first draft; as regaroled the limits within which the Consuls, bice Consuls and other \n\nPersons should exercise Jurisdiction it was not the intention of the Law officers to recommend that a \n\nlimitation should be introducest \n\nexercise \n\ninto the Order restricting the carcice of Jurisdiction within any given district to one such Officer. Jor \n\nFor although in ordinary circumstance. the Consul alone in such district would in all probability be called upon to exercise Jurisdiction, occasions might arise where the Consul, from illues \n\nor other cause might be temporarily meapacelated from acting, and it might be therefore convenient that the vice Consul should be able tact in the absence of his lifenor \n\nOfficer; on it may be \n\nprior it may be that the \n\nbice Consul may be stationed, as \n\nfor instance in the Canton Consulate where a Consulate Agent will \n\nreside", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "content_text": "No 64.\n\nSir,\n\n2258\n\n4. 2260 4th. 250\n\nBritish Consulate, Amoy.\n\nSeptember 14th. 1845.\n\nI would crave leave to draw Your Excellency's attention to the conduct of Masters of Merchant Vessels in reference to what may be called a part of their public duty; I mean the transmission of Letters and Despatches, and perhaps I cannot do this better than by citing the following example.\n\nThe Lady Mary Wood arrived at Hongkong about the 12th ultimo with the English Mails, two Vessels since her arrival have been at this Port, neither of which brought us a single Letter or Despatch; the Bazelle sailed from Hongkong\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nJohn Francis Davis,\n\n \n \n\n \nThe corrections made include:\n1. \"Orpets\" -> \"Vessels\" (spelling correction)\n2. \"mistation\" -> removed as it seems to be an OCR error or a non-word, and the sentence is rephrased slightly for clarity.\n3. \"Axcellency's\" -> \"Excellency's\" (spelling correction)\n4. \"Hey\" seems out of context and is left as is but it might be worth checking the original scan for its relevance or if it's an OCR error.\n5. \"Honghong\" -> \"Hongkong\" (spelling correction, consistency)\n6. \"Trancis\" -> \"Francis\" (spelling correction)\n\nThe output is formatted in HTML as requested, using `` for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222502, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "content_text": "Inclosure I'in despatch FD $1845.\n\ntebaiting particulars of mitrage\n\n\"Martin, Hinton, and Jackson forwarding representation from thes? Letter from Mr. Ensal Macgregor\n\nand robbery\n\nSir,\n\n159\n\nBritish Consulate, Canton,\n\n18th March 1845.\n\nAbout eleven o'clock this morning, while walking for exercise along the north wall on the outside of the City, we were attacked by several persons, who had been following us and increasing in numbers from the building known to Foreigners as the five-storied Pagoda. At first, they commenced with throwing stones, which endangered our lives, and by some of which we were struck. This attack was aided and encouraged by a number of Chinese who followed us along the top of the city wall, hurling large stones, which, if they had struck, would have killed those at whom they were aimed. Mr. Jackson was first attacked by...\n\nFrancis C. Macgregor Esquire,\n\nHer Majesty's Consul, Canton.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224608, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "84\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nthe description and amount of goods, to be sent to the commissioner of customs at Canton, in a prescribed form, month by month.\n\nThis enactment, and these clauses, have, it is now fully acknowledged, struck a severe blow at the coasting trade; the duty and restrictions on the lorchas and small craft, rendering them too expensive, and the regulations on the Chinese vessels effectually prohibiting them from ever daring to ask for passes to trade with Hong Kong.\n\nThe supplemental treaty appears to have been most craftily designed for destroying any prospective benefit that Hong Kong might possibly have derived from the usual energy and enterprise of British merchants. Indeed, it is asserted by Mr. Gutzlaff, that while the treaty was negotiating, a proposition was seriously entertained of stationing a Chinese mandarin at Hong Kong, for collection of the duties to be levied here on behalf of the Chinese Government.\n\nAn examination of the Chinese tariff will show that the export duties levied by the Chinese Government are very heavy. On tea, the export duty ranges from 12 to 20 per cent.; on camphor, 12 to 15 per cent.; on cassia, 12 per cent.; and so on in various proportions throughout the tariff. It is also confidently stated, that the inland transit duties on British manufactures are still maintained at a high rate, and that our manufactures are thus effectually excluded from extended consumption in the interior of the country. The effect of transit duties in impeding the sale of goods has been manifested in British and in foreign India, where they are now almost entirely abolished.\n\nThe establishment of a perfectly free port to the northward, as, for instance, at Chusan, would tend to counteract these restrictions. The Chinese junks, when out of sight of their own ports, and unwatched, would freely purchase goods*, which the native traders would, through various channels, carry into the interior, without the Chinese custom-house stamp, which renders goods prohibitory, or which is an incitement to extortions at the different transit stations.\n\nIrrespective of the value which I have endeavoured to demonstrate in my Report on Chusan, of the military and naval advantages, and of the geographical position of that island, its intrinsic worth as a station for extended commerce is unquestionable; and the large number of peaceful inhabitants engaged in husbandry on Chusan and the neighbouring islands, is, in itself, an advantage for the promotion of our trade.\n\nOn the fourth point, namely, the cession of a barren, unhealthy, and useless rock, at the southern extremity of the empire, it is almost unnecessary to offer a comment, as few disinterested persons now deny that a great error was committed by our acceptance of Hong Kong. Time\n\n• Since the above was penned, the \"Hong Kong Register,\" a journal belonging to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, & Co., contains, in an editorial article of 15th April, 1845, the following remarks:-\n\n\"A great many new houses and shops are building at Chusan, and a much larger number of boats and junks now frequent the harbour. Had we permanent possession of Chusan, it would be difficult to define the limit to which our influence in China, and our trade to Shantung, the north of China, Corea, and perhaps even to Japan, might extend either in British or in native bottoms.\"\n\nAND PROSPECTS IN CHINA.\n\n85\n\nand events have confirmed the accuracy of my report upon the island; it is still devoid of trade, and without prospect of any native or European traffic; its insalubrity* is beyond a doubt; its inapplicability for colonization, unfortunate geographical position, even as regards the Canton river estuary, and its inappropriateness as a military station for the maintenance of British supremacy in China, are now pretty generally acknowledged; and many who have spent large sums in building, under the delusion that Hong Kong would become a commercial emporium, would be glad to get back even a moiety of their outlay.\n\nThe supplemental treaty, which throughout was framed restrictively and adversely to British interests†, destroyed the only chance, however remote, that Hong Kong had of ever becoming a resort for junks from the coast. The treaty was, however, almost supererogatory, for natural and insuperable difficulties prevent the island ever being made worthy the name of a British colony. On a summary review of the past, it would appear that we have not derived the fair and legitimate advantages we had a right to obtain from the recent war, and that we have lost by diplomacy, the position which had been gained by the sword.†\n\n1st. In money we have not been reimbursed for the expenditure incurred during the war; and we are still incurring a very heavy and unprofitable outlay on this coast.\n\n2nd. The expected advantages from opening four commercial ports, in addition to the port of Canton, have not been realized: we are still restricted in our intercourse, locally and generally, and life and property are considered by no means secure, at Canton itself, within a hundred yards of the British factory; while ingress is still denied to the city of Canton, where the people are encouraged to treat us with marked contumely and insult, accompanied in some instances by robbery and violence, within sight of the city walls.§\n\n507\n\nagain in Jany Youb\n\n* During the year 1843, the deaths among the troops at Hong Kong were 1 in 31, at Chusan 1 in 294. By official returns printed in the \"Friend of China\" of April 16, 1845, it appears that the mortality of 1844 has been dreadful; on an average strength of 1800 men, the deaths were 373, and the invaliding 333—706, equal to one-third of the garrison! The survivors were unequal to one heavy day's march. Among the deaths were seven European officers; among the invalidings twelve European officers. Of sixty officers who lived at Chusan for eighteen months, not one died or invalided; and the troops are in as perfect health as if they were in England.\n\n† Her Majesty's plenipotentiary who framed this treaty, now declares \"that he was an umpire between Great Britain and China.” It was supposed that he was sent here for the protection and advancement of British interests.\n\nThe prohibition of vessels from Hong Kong alone, going beyond the 32nd degree of north latitude, has not been adverted to; the injustice, impolicy, and unnationality being so obvious. Such an edict, emanating from the Court of Pekin, seems quite consistent; but that it should be framed by a British plenipotentiary seems quite impossible.\n\n|| In July, 1845, Mr. Backhouse, and some of the Consular officers at Canton, were pelted with stones and covered with mud when rowing on the river for exercise, within a few hundred yards of the British Consulate.\n\nThe following letter refers to an outrage perpetrated a short time previous to this minute being written :—\n\n\"To Francis C. Macgregor, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul, Canton.\n\n\"Sir,\n\nBritish Consulate, Canton, March 18, 1845.\n\n“About seven o'clock this morning, while walking for exercise along the north wall, on the outside of the city, we were attacked by several Chinese, who had", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224620, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION\n\n124\n\nCANTON:\n\n \n Consul-General\n £2000\n \n \n Vice-Consul\n 900\n \n \n Interpreter\n 500\n \n \n Two Assistants at £400 and 300 each\n 700\n \n \n Contingencies, ordinary and extraordinary\n 900\n \n \n \n -£5000\n \n \n \n -£3000\n \n\nSHANGHAI:\n\n \n Consul\n 1500\n \n \n Interpreter and first Assistant.\n 450\n \n \n Second Assistant\n 250\n \n \n Contingencies, ordinary and extraordinary\n 800\n \n\nNINGPO:\n\n \n Vice-Consul, to be acquainted with Chinese language\n 800\n \n \n Assistant\n 300\n \n \n Contingencies, ordinary and extraordinary\n 400\n \n \n \n -£1500\n \n\nFOOCHOO, as NINGPO\n\nAMOY ditto\n\n \n \n 1500\n \n \n \n 1500\n \n \n \n £12,500\n \n\nHouse-rent, &c., for each Consulate averaging £500 a-year each\n\nTotal Consular and Trade department\n\n \n \n 2500\n \n \n \n £15,000\n \n\nIf the soundness and justice of these views and opinions be denied on reasoning and facts entitled to consideration, it is suggested that a commission of three disinterested men be appointed to report on the whole question, after examining Chusan and the Consular ports.\n\nThe expense of this commission would be trifling and temporary compared with the large and permanent expenditure now being incurred from the British Treasury on the coast of China.\n\nR. M. MARTIN.\n\nPAPER A, IN POINTS SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION, &c.\n\nGrounds and Reasons for Negotiation with the Chinese Government respecting Chusan.\n\n1st. The spirit and meaning of the Treaty of Nankin, in accordance with the proclamation issued by Sir H. Pottinger, in the Chinese language, when entering the Yang-tze-kiang river, June, 1842, was, that the English were to have an island adapted for a residence, suitable for a commercial emporium, and as a security against future war.\n\nIn no but one of these three points of view can Hong Kong be considered; they all apply to Chusan in a pre-eminent degree. It is not to be supposed that the Emperor of China, in ceding Hong Kong, knew that he was giving us a mere rock; incapable of producing sufficient food for the sustenance of its inhabitants for one day; almost uninhabitable for men a brief period, by reason of its insalubrious climate; totally inadapted for commerce; and by its inutility and expensiveness, affording an excitement to, rather than a guarantee against, another war.\n\n2nd. The great distance of Hong Kong from the seat of the Imperial Government, and from our increasing trade and interests in the central regions of China, require our having a minister resident at Pekin, with an attendant ship of war in the Peiho, unless we had Chusan for our residence.\n\n3rd. By the possession of Chusan fewer of our people would require to settle and establish themselves on the mainland, and abundant scope being thus afforded for British energy, enterprise and industry, there would be no possibility of continental aggressions or encroachments, which is likely to be the case when the English find themselves cooped up in a small barren, unhealthy rock, without trade, and devoid of any of the advantages which render life useful or agreeable.\n\n4th. The English are entitled to residence in and free ingress and egress to and from the city of Canton. This has been hitherto denied: neither are they enabled to dwell in cool, healthy places in the surrounding country, or to take exercise; but they are confined to a few feet of ground in the suburbs, amongst the lowest class of the Chinese, and subject to daily insult and annoyance, All this is contrary to treaty.\n\nWe will waive the right of entry and residence in the city of Canton, in consideration of obtaining Chusan for our residence.\n\n5th. The Imperial Government desire to restrict the residence of Europeans to as few places as possible on the mainland. In consideration of obtaining Chusan, the English might consent to retire from Ningpo, Foochoo, and (if necessary to the obtainment of our object) Amoy.\n\nThere are several other points which can only be discussed verbally, but it is confidently felt that if the above five points were properly explained and urged, the Imperial Government would cede Chusan to England.\n\nR. M. MARTIN.\n\nPAPER B, IN POINTS SUBMITTED FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.\n\nGovernmental Establishments of Hong Kong-Expense and Duties, &c., of each Department, with Economical Remarks on Reduction.\n\n1. ESTABLISHMENTS AND EXPENSE.\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong, with the title of Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Superintendent of Trade.\n\n \n Salary per annum\n £6000\n \n \n House-rent, &c., averaging\n 700\n \n \n Private secretary's allowance\n 300\n \n \n Total annual charge\n £7000\n \n\nPage 125\n\nOF GOVERNMENT.\n\n125\n\nPage 519\n\n519", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Captain PITMAN recalled, and asked if he could identify the last witness Ching-ke? Answered, I am, and corroborate the greater part of his evidence.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Taken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of WILLIAM LOCKHART, Surgeon, taken on oath, &c., &c.\n\nThe last witness Ching-ke was brought to me [at the Chinese Hospital] from H. M. Childers on the morning of the 16th inst., with an injury to his left foot. Apparently a musket shot had struck him on the first joint of the great toe, breaking the bone and laying open the joint. Sloughing had commenced, and great formation of matter around the wound and behind. I consider it a dangerous wound, and that his life is in danger from it.\n\nWILLIAM LOCKHART, M.R.C.S.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of WILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon of H. M.'s S. Childers, taken on oath, &c., &c. I went on board the Schooner Spec by Commander Pitman's order on the 23d instant. \"I saw three wounded Junkmen, one of them the witness recently examined, Ching-ke, and the other two had only received contusions and the injuries were slight. I asked how the injury had been received? The prisoner present, William Cole, said he thought it was by a grape shot. I heard William Cole say that he had fired into the Junk. I considered it necessary that Ching-ke should be removed for treatment, as the consequences of such wounds are frequently dangerous. I heard the answer of the Admiral interpreted to Captain Pitman, that the Junk in question was a proper Junk, by which I understood not a piratical vessel.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of JOSHUA BERKELEY, Esq., mate on board H. M. S. Childers, taken on oath, &c.\n\nI was sent to board the Schooner Spec this day week (22d June) with orders from Captain Pitman to ask the master what his business was there, and what was the communication he had with the Junk astern of him to which he replied that he had been commissioned by Mr. Davidson to convey some shot down to the Ding and he had captured the Junk the day previous and brought her in to the Ruggeds. I returned with this answer, and was again despatched with orders to the master to be on board H. M.'s S. Childers with his Log and papers within half an hour. The next day I was on board the Junk and saw the marks of several shot holes in her side and one in her stern. She was empty, I only saw some nets and bait on board.\n\nJOSHUA BERKELEY.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nSHANGHAE TO WIT,\n\nThe examination of George Johnson, native of England; Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Jan Nacion, natives of Manila; Levis Sept, native of Antigua; Striano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, natives of Manila; Ephraim Francis, native of England; Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, natives of Manila; Lith-Ayih, native of Chusan; Ching-Lea-Ching, native of Ningpo; Al-Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, natives of Chusan; William Cole, native of England; Yum-Ching-Ming, native of Chusan Taken this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me Rutherford Alcock Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, the said George Johnson, Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Juan Nacion, Levis Sept, Mariano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, E. Francis, Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, Li-Ayih, Ching-Lea-Ching, Ah Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, William Cole, being charged before me the said Consul on the oath of John Charles Pitman, Esquire, Commander of H. B. M. Sloop Childers, for that on the 1st day of June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, being on board a certain vessel or schooner called the Spec in a certain place on the high seas near the sand called the \"Ruggeds\" on the coast of China, did piratically, feloniously, and violently with force and arms, attack, board, and take possession of a certain Junk or vessel, the property of a certain Chinese subject named Kwo-kin, the owner thereof, and did feloniously fire into the said Junk or vessel, whereby the said Kwo-kin the owner together with several of the seamen on board thereof were killed, and did take and carry away certain stores and apparel belonging to the said Junk, and certain Goods and Chattels belonging to the said owner and divers of the seamen on board. And the witnesses against them being examined in their presence, they are now asked by me if they wish to say anything in their own behalf; whereupon they answered they had no defence to make.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of KEW-TSAK-KIN, the day of July, &c.\n\nI was put on board the schooner Spec by a public body of Chinese merchants, and took no pay from the master of the ship. A Junk had been hailed to let down her sails, and not complying, a shot had certainly been fired into her.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions, and the Answers made to the same. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me this day on board the schooner Spec at\n\nPage 363\n\nanchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the 23d day of June, 1848.\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nQuestions asked by Commander J. C. Pitman, of Ching-chong-ke (the Chinese Admiral in charge of 7 junks), on board his vessel.\n\nRugged Islands, the 23d of June, 1848\n\nHas the English schooner Spec any right to be here?-No.\n\nWhether he knew what the English schooner Spec was about there?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know whether the Junk taken by the Spec was a pirate or not?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know what the schooner Spec was about with the Junk?-Did not know.\n\nWhether the Captain of the schooner had brought any of the crew of the junk on board to him, or made any complaint to him relative to the junk?-\n\nWhat became of the crew and cargo of the junk?-Taken on board the Spec, he believed.\n\nIs that English schooner any right to take the junk?—No\n\nDid he know why the Captain of the Spec did not bring the crew of junk on board his vessel?-Did not know.\n\nAfter the 2 Chinamen belonging to the junk and the mate of the Spec had been taken on board the Mandarin's junk, the following Questions were asked.-\n\nWhether the papers of the junk were correct?—They are all proper and correct, and signed by the proper authorities.\n\nIs any complaint to make against the schooner?—No.\n\nWhat cause had the schooner Spec to take that junk, whether it was proper to do so, and if the Chinese Mandarins like it?—The junk's papers are proper, but she had no business to have so many arms on board. The English vessel did wrong to take her; she has a right to carry arms. If the Chinese Admiral likes, the arms shall be returned to the junk—Part of them.\n\nIf he likes, remainder shall be sent to him or thrown overboard?—To be sent to him. Which was done.\n\nCaptain Pitman then told the junkmen that their junk, rice, and part of their arms, would be returned to them, and they would be allowed to go on with their fishing. They said they would return to Chin-hai.\n\nCaptain Pitman told the Chinese Admiral that the English schooner Spec had fired into the junk and wounded 3 men, and that one of the wounded men would be sent to the Shanghae Hospital for medical treatment. He said it was a bad affair, but was much obliged.\n\nAre you now quite satisfied that the junk is not a pirate? Yes, she is a fishing Junk of Chin-hae.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions and the Answers made to same, &c. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me, this day, on board the Chinese Admiral's Junk at anchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\n23d day of June, 1848.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the\n\nPage 364\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF THE SCHOONER SPEC.\n\nRedusduz, 1 June\n\nA. M. weighed, saw a junk to the southward—the pilot wished us to see what she was\n\nand took her, towed her back to the Ruggeds and anchored. 9. A. M., came up with her; she proved a pirate, boarded her. At 6 P. M. took 18 men and one boy, confined them on board.\n\nThursday, 22d June\n\nA. M. hoisted out the schooner, and put two boats out, one of which got adrift and was lost; 6 P. M. went on board the junk, brought her nearer the\n\nwas lying 5 miles to leeward of us last night. Took out almost every portable article.\n\nA. M. Brig Childers anchored to the southward.\n\nSt. p. 52. s. hove up the junk's anchor and took her closer in-shore. The Commander of H. M.'s Brig Childers came on board to see the papers—not finding them correct,* ordered us to Shanghae with the junk.\n\nFriday, 23 June.\n\nAll our prisoners on board the junk and let go except the man wounded in the toe, who was taken on board H. M. S. Childers.\n\nThis appears to be an expression of regret. It had been originally\n\nand (Indignant), having been imbecile with the loss of masters being scored out.. E. M.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nThursday, 22d June, 1848.\n\n\"A. M. 6, observed the English schooner Spec standing for the Eastern anchorage under the south Ruggeds (Falls.) with a Chinese junk in company with her; apparently discharging de-\n\nbris and other things into the water; 11.50, observed the schooner Spec alongside the junk,\n\nG. I. G.\n\nFriday, 23d of June, 1848. A. M. \"The schooner Spec of Hongkong having been mustered, her Articles and Log were found not to be correct. the master's and several of the crew's names not being registered the junk which she had taken possession of was liberated by order of Commander Pitman. took one of the wounded Chinese\n\non board.\n\nP. Chinese Admiral visited the ship. Saluted him with 3 guns. Protested against the schooner Spec of Hongkong for having taken the (alleged) Chinese Junk, killing Five men, and wounding Four.\"\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE BOARDING BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nDate, 3d June, 1848—Name of Vessel, \"Spec.\"—Master, Wm. Cole—Owner, Davidson of Ningpo—Where from, Ningpo—Bound, Saddle Island, one of the Ports of\n\nTrade—Belonging, Hongkong—No. of Days out, 3.—Registered Tonnage,\n\n1.—7. 10—Guns, 9—Jungting, No Cargo—No passengers\n\nNation, English—How rigged, Schooner—Marks, The master, mate, and three men, not on the articles; one English seaman on Register Ticket; no registry of arms, and has on board 9 guns, 28 muskets, 5 Pistols, 10 cutlasses, 4 pikes, and 5 spears; 9 Chinamen, and 1 pilot not on manifest\n\n(True Copy,) J. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nLIST OF JUNK'S ARMS.\n\nThis is to certify that Ting-ke, the wounded Chinese brought to the Chinese Hospital from H. M. S. Childers, is still under my care. There is less inflammation of the foot then there was, the progress of the Sloughing has ceased, and several small portions of bone have been taken away from the wound; but he could not go to Hongkong, without great danger to his life.\n\nWM. LOCKHART, Surgeon.\n\nShanghae, July 4, 1848.\n\nQuestions asked by Commander Pitman, of the master and crew of a Chinese Fishing-junk on board the Spec, of Hongkong, in the presence of Mr. Cole the master, the mate, and crew of the Spec.\n\nRugged Islands, the 2d June, 1848\n\nFrom whence did the junk come?—From Chebac.\n\nWhere are your papers?—We produced them.\n\nHow came he to have so many arms on board?—To protect himself from the pirates outside.\n\nWhat became of all the things belonging to the junk?—Rice, arms, and some small boxes taken on board the Spec.\n\nWhether any person belonging to the Spec had taken anything from them?—Only the rice, arms, and small boxes.\n\nHave any of them been beaten on board the Spec?—No, except wounding them by firing at them.\n\nHad they had plenty to eat on board the Spec?—Yes.\n\nDid the Spec fire shot at the junk?—Yes, and killed 5 and wounded 3 men.\n\nHow many men lost?—The 5 killed, one of their heads was blown off.\n\nHow many men in the junk when she left port?—24—19 were on board the Spec.\n\nHas he any complaint to make as to the treatment received from the Spec?—No, only they were innocent of the charge of being pirates.\n\nWhere was he when the Spec took him?—Off the Ruggeds at the fishing station.\n\nCaptain Pitman told them that he would take 2 or 3 of them on board the Mandarin junk to be examined, and if they were found not to be pirates they should be allowed to go away.\n\nThe Pilot of the Spec was asked.—\n\nHow he knew that these men were pirates?—Because they fought the fishing boats.\n\nThe Master of the Spec was asked,—\n\nWho sent the Pilot on board?—The Chinese merchants at Ningpo, and hired the vessel.\n\nDid the junk attack or molest you?—No.\n\nThe following is a list of the arms I saw on board the\n\nJunk.\n\n5 Gingalls\n\n5 Tahious\n\nMatchlocks\n\n10 Pikes\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nBritish Consulate Office, Shanghae, 31 July, 1848.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to return the Log Book and Papers of the Schooner Spec detained by you on the 23d ultimo, for acts of Piracy and breach of existing Navigation Laws, as set forth in the evidence taken before me on the 29th ultimo, on the charge preferred by you against the master and crew of that vessel for Piracy and Murder committed on the high seas. You will be good enough to hold these Documents available for production in evidence at any Trial that may take place in the Supreme Court at Hongkong.\n\nI have further to request that on the arrival of the Prisoners at Hongkong, the officer in Charge will report the same at the Superintendency, deliver the enclosed Despatch, and act in reference to the disposal of the Prisoners as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary shall please to direct.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, for Consul.\n\n(True Copy, FARD. HOWARD)\n\nTo Commander J. C. Pitman, R.N., H. M. S. Childers.\n\nBy J. C. PITMAN, Esquire.\n\nYou are to allow no communication with the Prisoners except in writing through you. You will be furnished with a list of the master and crew, and all the necessary papers.\n\non reporting yourself and the number of Prisoners at the Superintendency's office there, where you will deliver the enclosed Despatches for His Excellency the Governor.\n\nGiven under my hand on board the Childers at Woosung, the 3d July, 1848\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander,\n\nTo Lieut. G. T. Graham, of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nBefore C. B. HALLER, Esquire, Chief Magistrate, and\n\nTUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\na Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty,\n\nBRISAT\n\n1st Prisoner, WILLIAM COLE, of Pembrokeshire, master of the Schooner Spec,\n\n2d Prisoner, GEORGE JOHNSON, of London, mate of Schooner Spec\n\n3d Prisoner, EPHRAIM FRANCIS, of Maldon, in the county of Essex, gunner of the Schooner Spec\n\n4th Prisoner, No. 1 JOAN IGNACIO, of Staunbogan in the Phillipine Islands, seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n5th Prisoner, MARIANO AGOSTIN, of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n6th Prisoner, LORENÇO SANTOS, of Calibo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n7th Prisoner, MARIANO ALBERTO, of Iligan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n8th Prisoner, MARIANO DE LOS SANTOS, native of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n9th Prisoner, LUCAS MANOEL, native of Bigan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n10th Prisoner, ERO JOSER, native of Antigue in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n11th Prisoner, GABRIEL CALISTRO, of Santa Luzia in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n12th Prisoner, No. 2 JOAN IGNACIO, 30 years of age, of Soorgegas in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n[Juan Ignacio the first, named above, describes himself as 26 years of age.]\n\n13th Prisoner, BUENAVENTURA MARIANO, of Sambaangar in the Philippine Islands, Seaman of the schooner Spec.\n\n14th Prisoner, KWOK-AN-VEE, 14 years of age, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n15th Prisoner, LE-AN-VOOK, of Chusan, cook.\n\n16th Prisoner, WONG-KAT, of Chusan, servant to a Seaman.\n\n17th Prisoner, YUM-CHAONG-MING, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n18th Prisoner, YOW-CHAY-CHING, of Ningpo, seaman.\n\n1st Witness for the prosecution, JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, ESQUIRE.\n\nOn the 22d June last I was on board and in command of Her Majesty's Ship Childers off the Ragged Islands on the Coast of China, in Latitude about 30 North; do not recollect the Longitude. At six o'clock on the morning of that day, the Childers being then about\n\nPage 365\n\nfive miles from the shore, I saw a schooner and a Chinese junk was in company with her; looking with the glass I judged the junk to be almost a quarter of a mile from her, but it was impossible to judge correctly at that distance; the junk was standing into a bay, in the same way as the Spec (afterwards found the schooner to be) The junk and the schooner between 8 and 9 that morning anchored in a bay there close to each other; in the bay were three mandarin junks and some fishing-boats. It was calm, and we were obliged to anchor at A. M. between two and three miles of the schooner. During the forenoon we observed the schooner and junk apparently alongside of each other. I saw that some things were being discharged from the junk into the schooner, and refuse, floated past the Childers; from the direction in which they floated I supposed they had been thrown over from the junk; the tide flowed in a right line between the junk and the Childers. At 4 P. M. that day I weighed and made the Childers down to the schooner. I anchored about half a cable from her, and found the junk about half a cable's length nearly astern of her. I found the schooner to be the Spec. In consequence of a message sent by me on board the Spec at 5.30 P. M. that day, prisoner Cole came on board the Childers, bringing a Log-book and some Ship's Articles (witness produces them) which he affirmed to be the Log-book and Articles of the Spec. He said that he was acting as master of the Spec for another person who was absent at Ningpo. I asked him what he was doing there and what he was doing with the junk; he said he had captured her. I asked him if he had had any communication with the Mandarins, and what he had done with the people belonging to the junk; he said No to the first question, and to the second that the people were on board the Spec. I then asked him why he had not taken these men to the Mandarins, or brought them to me, as I had been in sight of him all day; he said he did not know. It was getting late and I told him that I should examine his vessel in the morning. He said in reply to any questions that he had not put in for stress of weather: that he was from Ningpo, and did not know any place in particular to which he was bound; that the junk had not fired at him or molested him, but that the pilot had told him that she was a pirate. I asked him why he had hailed her. He did not reply to this, before nine o'clock next morning I went on board the junk and examined her; I found that everything had been taken out of her excepting some nets and some small tubs of fish for bait. There were several shot holes in her hull that might have been caused by sound shot from a three or six-pounder gun; then I went to the Spec and mustered the Spec's crew. I found the articles were incorrect. Prisoner Cole said that the Chinese crew of the junk were in the fore hold of the Spec. I saw them brought on deck from the fore hold; their hands were tied together; seven of them had wounds about them; one of them was so severely wounded that I sent for the medical officer to examine him. I asked Cole how these wounds had been received, he said by shot from the Spec. I asked Cole if he had papers of the junk, he said. No; I then asked for the head man of the junk. One of the Chinamen came forward and produced some papers that had been sewn up in his clothing, and which by the interpretation of a Chinese from the Childers were pronounced to be the junk's papers. I conveyed to the\n\nPage 366\n\nhanded them over to the Chinese Mandarins. When subsequently questioned Cole about it, Cole said that the wound was caused by a grape shot from the Spec; and prisoner Ephraim Francis added that he thought it must have been caused by a grape shot. I subsequently released the crew of the junk, excepting the man who was badly wounded, and who was sent on board the Childers to be under medical care. I went to the Mandarins, and the crew of the junk (that is two of them) were examined before them. The Mandarins, as the interpreter explained to me, wished the crew of the junk to be released, as their papers were good. By their request I also handed over to them half the arms of the junk, handing the others to the junk's crew. The junk was a fishing junk of the ordinary class fishing thereabouts,\n\nThe quantity of arms belonging to the junk was not unusually large; the crew said she had them to protect herself against pirates. I found in a list of the arms belonging to the junk as detailed to me by Cole. Between 4 and 5 P. M. on the 22d June last I saw two Chinese boats alongside the junk; shortly afterwards as we\n\nJ. C. PITMAN,\n\nCommander of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nare hereby directed to repair on board the schooner Spec of Hongkong and take charge of her, as well as the master and crew, who are prisoners under the charge of Piracy on the High Seas, &c., and you will use the utmost\n\nvigilance that none escape whilst under your custody. You will proceed with all expedition to Hongkong; on your arrival there you will report yourself to the Senior Naval Officer, from whom you will receive further instructions.\n\nFor your better guidance, I refer you to Chap 8 of the Queen's Regulations, Page 82, and to Art. 14 of the Admiralty Instructions, Pages 6 to 14\n\n146", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227458, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Tuesday, 14TH September, 1848.\n\nDecision-te Prisoners, Wilika Cole, Genn...\n\nstood towards the junk and fired grape nut canister at her. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her, acting on the orders of Mr. Davidson. None. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her.\n\nCole what had become of the property on board the junk he said that everything that had been on board the junk was there, pointing at the same time to some small Chinese boxes, some rice, and some arms on the deck of the Spec. I detained the Spec and took her to Shanghae, where she was handed over to the Consul, and sent her here at his request. I do not recollect that Cole during any conversation I had with him mentioned the date of the capture of the junk, but I think he said that he had captured her the day before.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker, representing himself as the Attorney for the prisoners.\n\nI have previous to today been twice at this Office, and have once had a conversation with some prisoners all the Manilamen. I told them that if any of them gave evidence on behalf of the Queen the Governor would give them a free pardon. The Governor and I were in conversation about the case, I told him that some of the men were anxious at Shanghae to become Queen's evidence. The prisoners said that they were willing to become evidence. The Governor told me to offer this free pardon, I have not seen the depositions taken at Shanghae since they were taken. The mandarin said he considered the junk had too many arms, as she was only allowed to carry a certain number, which number he did not know, so he kept a portion of them. The evidence given at Shanghae was not interpreted to the Manilamen in my presence. My evidence was not so translated.\n\nThe witness further states.-\n\nI beg to hand in two extracts from the Boarding-book and Log-book of the Childers, which I include...\n\nAntonio Rocher, a police constable, is sworn.\n\nC. PITMAN, interpreter of the Teagaio dialect, which two of the prisoners speak.\n\nPrisoners, The preceding evidence having been explained to them, are remanded until to-morrow at Ten o'clock.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nWEDNESDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\nJOHN CHARLES PITMAN--recalled.\n\nlet the exact time. When asked why he did not communicate with the Chinese junks as to the capture? He replied, that he had done so, and that two Chinese mandarins had been on board the Childers.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman, that I remember relative to the evidence I have given. I did converse with Captain Pitman yesterday relative to the Chinese witness who has absconded—I mean the witness who was sent down from Shanghae.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS--Kwok...\n\nThe following Sailing Letter is one of 14 papers...\n\nPart of Greenock, af Gabriel Cales or Calisto, a Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nHongkong Register Ticket of do. No. 870 of do., dated 18th August, 1846.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Lawrence Zoney or Lourenço de la Zong, Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Mariano Gosting, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nin the after part of her hold. I saw at least a dozen shot holes in her bottom. The hatch way were two holes caused apparently by grape shot. The others were of no great importance, just passing in at one side and out at the other.\n\nCertificate of Servitude on board the Lesuar, from the Shanghae Consulate.\n\nT. W. Riddles, No. 226, dated 19th December, 1845, Ed. Robinson Commander, No. 247, dated 8th March, 1848.\n\nPort Clearance from the Chinese Superintendent of Customs, No. 247, dated 4th day, 2d moon, 28th year Taou-kwang, or 8th March, 1848.\n\n#12. 3 Envelopes\n\nI am a Clerk on board Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nNo. 18 of 1847.\n\nI addressed to Capt. Robinson, schooner Spec—absent, Capt. T. Band, schooner William.\n\n1 having written on it Spec's papers and articles vid log in charge of Timot G. T. Grabam, H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nI directed on service Messrs McKenzie, Bro. & Co., Shanghae.\n\nSAILING LETTER,\n\nBritish subjects, but not entitled to the privileges of British...\n\nMr Cole gave me on the 22d June last the documents I now hand in, being fourteen papers, among them the Sailing Letter of the Spec; he told me they were the ship's papers, all he had. I returned being then near her, at about 9 or 10 in the morning went on board the Spec. I saw on board the Spec, alongside the Childers, the Sailing Letter, as above designated, for the use and navigation of the ship or vessel called the Spec.\n\nThe next day, the Childers' officer duly registered and mustered the crew of the Spec. I can identify the prisoners Cole, Johnson, Francis, Juan Ignacio (No. 1) Lourenço, Juan Ignacio (No. 2), Mariano Agustin, Gabriel Calisto, Euzebio Josep, Mariano Alberto, for Aryok, Yuen Chang-ming, Kwok Aryee, Yow Chay-ching, as having been on board the Spec when I first visited her on the 23d June last.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman relative to the evidence I have given.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS.\n\nI am a Lieutenant of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then off the Rugged Islands.\n\nAt 6 p.m., I was officer of the deck; I saw a schooner and a junk in company under the land and standing for the land. Between 10 and 11 in the forenoon I observed that the junk was alongside the schooner, apparently discharging. I saw things passing backwards and forwards from the junk to the schooner, but could not see what they were; we were distant one mile.\n\nA little after six in the evening, the Childers being about two cables from the schooner, in consequence of a message sent by Captain Pitman, Mr Cole came on board the Childers (the prisoner Cole)—he was asked by Captain Pitman to produce his log-book and papers. He produced his log-book, but no papers.\n\nThe log-book produced by witness Pitman is shown to him, he states, on oath that this is the log-book; I would not swear that it is.\n\nCaptain Pitman asked Mr Cole what he was doing there? Cole replied, that he was there for the protection of the fisheries under orders from Mr Davidson.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS———AWON.\n\nI am Surgeon of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on 23 June last: she was then off the Rugged Islands; the Spec was lying not far from her.\n\nAt about 10 a.m., I went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order to see some wounded Chinamen.\n\nI saw three wounded Chinamen on board the Spec. Two had slight contusions, the other was wounded on the great toe of the left foot; the joint was laid open; Mr Cole (the prisoner) told me that the wound was caused by a grape shot.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nJOSHUA BRAKELEY.\n\nI am acting master on board H.M.S. Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then at the Rugged Islands.\n\nOn the evening of that day at about 6 p.m., the Childers was anchored, and the Schooner Spec was lying close to us; a junk was placed 100 yards astern of the Spec.\n\nI went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order; I saw prisoner Cole on board.\n\nIn reply to my question he said that he had been sent by Mr Davidson to carry shot to the Dide, and that on the previous evening he had met this junk and taken her, she being a pirate.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nPrisoners make no defence, excepting Euzebio Mariano, who states.—I was not on board the Schooner Spec at the time when the offence charged is said to have been committed. I joined the Spec at Woosung on the 24th June, from the Muzzepa. I did not know her to be a pirate.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nExtract from an Inventory of the Stores belonging to the schooner \"Spec,\" of Hongkong; taken by Lieut. Graham of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers.\n\nWoosung, 30th June, 1848.\n\n9 cwt, 4 pounders, 9 in Number.\n\nCarronades...\n\nMusket Ball Cartridge Fusee, 100 in Number.\n\nPistol Cartridges, 151 Rounds.\n\nFlannel filled with Powder, 1 lb., 40 in Number.\n\nDito with powder and shot.\n\nLoose Powder, 2 oz., 1 lb., 74 lb., 100 lb.\n\nShot round iron, 2 lb., 6 lb., + 470 Number.\n\nMuskets with lock and Bayonets, 16 in number, (3 without ramrods) without Bayonets, 1 in Number.\n\nCutlasses, 5 in Number.\n\nSpears, short, 150 in Number.\n\nDo. long, 50 in Number.\n\nPlates, 8 Breachings.\n\nCarbine Rifles, ...\n\nSwords corved, ...\n\nPercussion Caps for Rifles about 210 in Number.\n\nBar shot, cast iron, 8 in Number.\n\n7 Spare Trucks.\n\n12 Cum Tackles\n\nGEO. T. GRAHAM. Lieutenant,\n\nH.M. Sloop Childers.\n\nJOS. BEEKELEY, Acting Master.\n\nNOTE--The remainder of the list contains mention of Ship's Store and private articles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228153, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "# Appendix.\n\nBoard of Trade\n\nLE\n\n450\n\n[ 18 ]\n\nHouse for Queen's Solicitor-general · 20,000 dollars.\n\nReport on the Island of Hong Kong.\n\n \n Ditto, for Colonial Secretary\n 20,000\n \"\n 7\n \n \n Ditto, for Chief Magistrate\n 18,000\n \"\"\n 17\n \n \n Ditto, for Treasurer\n 18,000\n \n 11\n \n \n Ditto, for Land Officer\n 16,000\n \n \n \n \n Ditto, for Clerk of Colonial Council\n 16,000\n \"\"\n \n \n \n Ditto, for Colonial Surgeon\n 16,000\n \"\"\n \n \n \n Ditto, for Chaplain\n 16,000\n \"\"\n \n \n \n Range of building for Advocate-general, Queen's Solicitor, &c. &c.\n 100,000\n \"\n \n \n \n Prison, with house for gaoler, Hong Kong\n 45,000\n \n 29\n \n \n Debtors' gaol, Hong Kong\n -\n \n \"\n \n \n House of correction, Hong Kong\n 20,000\n \n 4,000\n \n \n Two police stations north side of island\n 15,000\n \"\n \"\n \n \n Two smaller ditto\n 10,000\n \"\"\n 8,000\n \n \n Police station at Chuck Choo\n 3,000\n \n 19\n \n \n at Saiwan\n 3,000\n \n -\n \n \n at Pok-foolum\n \n \n 3,000\n \n \n Keeping in repair Chuck Choo road\n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n Contingencies of 5 per cent.\n 35,775\n >>\n \"\n \n \n \n 715,500\n \n \n \n \n Consulate at Canton\n 45,000\n \"\n \n \n \n Total\n 796,275\n \n 35\n \n\nLand-office, Victoria,\n\n10 February 1844.\n\nA. F. Gordon,\n\nLand Officer.\n\nThis is but a small portion of the contemplated expenditure; it does not include the formation of streets and roads in Hong Kong, which (on account of the mountainous nature of the island) would cost about 100,000 sterling. It does not include barracks, stores, forts, arsenals, dockyards, wharfs, &c. all projected, and which would cost several millions sterling before they would be completed.\n\nIt is unnecessary to pursue this branch of the subject further; sufficient has been said to show the absurd and ruinous projects which were entertained, and the utter failure of the colony in regard to the nature and extent of its population. Notwithstanding the large sums of money expended, the Governor is now obliged to hire a residence which belongs to the late deputy governor, Mr. Johnston. The government offices are in a temporary building, which is falling to pieces. The General commanding has hired an inn for his residence. There is only one small barrack in Victoria, and that has been recently erected; it is not possible to rent a decent house under 150 to 180 dollars a month, about 400l. sterling per annum. The church service is conducted in a mat shed; the civil and military officers are glad to get a location, or even a room, in any spot, on any terms; and the prices of living and of servants, &c. (see Documentary Appendix) are enormous, while the whole population of the island is entirely dependent for its daily supply of food on the Emperor of China's subjects on the mainland of China.\n\n[ 19 ]\n\nCommerce.-There is no trade of any noticeable extent in Hong Kong. Vessels occasionally touch here on their way to Canton, or on their return from thence when laden and about to proceed to Europe for orders. Vessels also proceeding to or coming from the ports to the northward sometimes touch here for instructions from the owners or consignees, but very few break bulk at Hong Kong. There is a considerable business done in opium.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. have a large opium receiving ship, the \"Homanjee Bomanjee,” moored the whole year round in this harbour; Messrs. Dent & Co. have also a large vessel, the \"John Barry,\" for a similar purpose. These receiving ships contain the opium brought from India, whence it is transhipped to smaller vessels and sent up the coast. Messrs. M'Vicar, Burn & Co.; Fox, Rawson & Co., and a few smaller houses, also deal to the extent of their means in the opium trade, which requires a large ready money capital. The smaller houses, who have no vessels of their own, consign opium to agents at the consular ports, but it is kept on board the receiving ships, moored off or near those ports, until the agents sell the opium to some Chinese broker, at Shanghai, for instance, who then receives an order for the delivery of the opium from the receiving ship at Woosung,\n\nThere are no native trading junks here from the coast of China; there are none belonging to the port, and a few fishing and passage boats, which form a safe asylum for Ladrones and vagabonds of every description, constitute the native craft of Hong Kong. Even if the natural impediments did not exist to the establishment of a native coasting trade, the articles 13, 14, and 16, in the Supplemental Treaty, would effectually prevent any Chinese junks resorting to Hong Kong. Not only are the junks prevented proceeding thither from any places but the five consular ports, but they must also obtain special passports for a voyage to Hong Kong, and when arrived there the British Government are to act the part of spies for the Chinese government, and to report every vessel, the name of her proprietor, the nature of her cargo, &c., to the authorities at Canton.\n\nIt is now well understood what was the object of these clauses; no passes will be readily granted, and junks that might proceed to Hong Kong would probably be punished by the Chinese authorities, who are exceedingly jealous that anything should occur for the advantage of Hong Kong. These and other circumstances, together with the fear of pirates, the want of a Chinese commercial community, the dearness of provisions, and the absence or high price of any trading commodities, will be sufficient to prevent any coasting trade at Hong Kong.\n\nDr. Gutzlaff, whose knowledge of the Chinese character and proceedings is certainly unsurpassed, says, \"So long as the trade is maintained in the respective ports on an excellent footing, no vessels will visit this colony to buy articles at the same price which they can more easily get nearer to them, nor will they bring goods to Hong Kong for which there is an advantageous market in their own neighbourhood. When ships find it more profitable to proceed direct to the northern ports, the chances of Hong Kong becoming an emporium are very trifling. Whatever native or foreign trade will be carried on here must be brought to the colony by adventitious circumstances, and will last or cease according to accident; for notwithstanding the excellent harbour, Hong Kong has nothing in its position or relationship to the other ports to concentrate commerce.'\n\nSince August 1841, Sir H. Pottinger has been issuing proclamations and regulations respecting commerce and shipping for their encouragement and protection. No duties of any kind whatever have been levied, no inquiries have been made as to the cargoes of vessels; ships might enter and depart at pleasure; but all in vain, commerce cannot be created where no materials for it exist.\n\nThe table in the Documentary Appendix shows the shipping which entered the harbour of Hong Kong for three years. It consisted principally of transports conveying troops, and vessels calling for orders or seeking freights. Ample trial has been given the place without any satisfactory result. Nearly four years' residence on, or occupation of the island, and an immense expenditure, has failed to produce any commercial operation. Every month the shipping entering the harbour are diminishing in number, and the imposition of a tonnage duty would, it is said, cause a still further decrease.\n\nThere does not appear the slightest probability that under any circumstances Hong Kong will ever become a place of trade. The island produces nothing whatever; its geographical position, either as regards the Chinese coast generally, or Canton in particular, is bad. For the trade of the coast of China it is too far to the southward of a territory which extends upwards of 2,000 miles, and if it were practicable to remove the foreign trade of Canton, the removal would be either to some of the open ports to the northward, in the neighbourhood of the tea districts, or to some island or place in the Canton River. Among other delusions that have been promulgated, is the allegation that Hong Kong is a protection to the British commerce at Canton, and especially to the tea trade. With reference to the latter, it should be remembered that the Chinese are as eager to sell us tea as we are to buy it; that the cessation of the trade would be a greater injury to them than to the British nation; that there was no difficulty in procuring tea during the war; that nothing would prevent the Chinese supplying our annual demand for tea, and, of course, receiving in return English manufactures. The tea trade is in fact as independent of Hong Kong as it would be of our occupation of the Sandwich Islands. Canton, however, has no intrinsic advantages to make it the seat of foreign commerce. So long as the Emperor restricted all foreigners to the most distant southerly port in the empire, tea, silk, or any other exportable produce was obliged to be conveyed thither, however distant the place of production or manufacture; but the case is now totally different, when the northern ports in the immediate vicinity of the tea and silk provinces are equally with Canton open to British commerce. Several vessels have already laden with tea for England in the northern ports; this may be increased, and the trade of Canton would then be proportionably diminished, thus rendering Hong Kong, (admitting for the sake of argument its reputed value as a protection to the trade of Canton) every year less and less useful to British interests in China. It is for the advantage of England that our trade with China be carried on with the northern ports. In the central districts of China, along the Yang-ze-kang and other great rivers and canals, the people are more civilized, more wealthy, and, now that they are becoming acquainted with the English, more disposed to friendly and commercial intercourse. By purchasing tea and silk near the place of production, the charges of land-carriage, &c., are avoided.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229566, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "Age \n\nherself and infant daughter, were \n\ncalamity Entirely \n\ncut off. \n\nThat the said \"ticias smithers the month of January \n\nhundred and forty a proportion \n\nlowa \n\ndy creating \n\n\" \n\nby this \n\nfree \n\nof his to a \n\nprusion pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases. \n\nof his saing disabled (your) beheres that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during \n\nthe remainder of his life. \n\n\"That it has \n\nbeen \n\na \n\npetitione. \n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration \n\nand render assistance to the survivors of \n\npersons killed in their device and a lit Ke.. \n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers \n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly \n\nprays that she \n\nVOL. I. No. 9. \n\nChina \n\nOverland \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28 \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Ilis Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China, \n\nBy Order, \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848. \n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE, \n\n12th August, 1848. \n\nNOTIFICATION. \n\nA Boats \n\nBoots \n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is \n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with \n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission. \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nConsul. \n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae. \n\nbe allowed \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nmay some small pension \n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to \n\nsupport \n\n4 \n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for. \n\nAnd your petition to \n\nEver pray te. \n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers. \n\nlue steered for. \n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail. \n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848. \n\n64 \n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM. \n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to \n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx \n\njunk and me who hire \n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven \n\ndhuli \n\n*ximating \n\nof Nether \n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners, \n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were \n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar- \n\nen beide 0115 on \n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain. \n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended. \n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;--- \n\npar. \n\nM. \n\nplying \n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED. \n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and \n\nYes Clock, \n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not \n\nCourse Grace Modlig \n\nJis (Cafe Cotto \n\nForeign Lung Colon, \n\nRay Coto, uoleened, \n\ninfertor Fort, \n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found \n\nOf that stabburn craw \n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant \n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon \n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ; \n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox \n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka, \n\nWe also extract from the Friend of \n\nI \n\n13ch cleaned, \n\noh gluing Boston, \n\n10. \n\nElo \n\nWhite Lead, \n\nColuared Paper \n\nFlowed and Note Paper, \n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur \n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so \n\n11. \n\nDi \n\nSugar Candy \n\nሱ \n\nKwangbang, dan, \n\nGreat Glager, \n\nTony Chry Sucks, \n\nCents. \n\n\"1\" \n\nPicen 2 \n\n· Dale \n\nWhico. \n\nPcular de \n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez, \n\nMetropolitan Gods. \n\nBlack Treppe \n\nBlack and Gruen, du.. \n\nBarn Wood, \n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids \n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay \n\n- \n\nTAIFOONG. \n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY \n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity. \n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information— \n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China. \n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2, \n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground. \n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th \n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre- \n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years, \n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu \n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought \n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order, \n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i \n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from \n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar- \n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire \n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed. \n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty. \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348. \n\nOverlang China Mail. \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN \n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon. \n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter, \n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter \n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P. \n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK. \n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens, \n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti- \n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens, \n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean \n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc. \n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas \n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i \n\nAt b \n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge. \n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani \n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa. \n\nArt:lery. \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON. \n\nPer \n\nVIDEO \n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t \n\nPre \n\n& 10 8 \n\n40 \n\nX \n\nSappers and Minora. with erent...... \n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551 \n\nH \n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181 \n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the \n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nL'onsul. \n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:-- \n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship \n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and \n\nAs all for \n\nothers severely wounded. \n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.) \n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa \n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received \n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l. \n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill. \n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed, \n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house \n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich \n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles \n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt \n\n\"Foreign in \n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer- \n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks \n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro \n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this \n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be \n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou \n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by \n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest \n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors. \n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept, \n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte, \n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting \n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese, \n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a \n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment \n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli \n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on \n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next. \n\nwith.\" On recript of the the \n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca \n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp \n\npondnet your royarske, \n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock \n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts \n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the \n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples, \n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro- \n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated \n\nand \n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS \n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of \n\nevash, and \n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei \n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag, \n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin \n\n1sthet romanda The \n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that \n\nidly \n\n31st Auz. 10 \n\n.. \n\n3. NE \n\nheavy pas \n\n11 \n\n90.24 N.IS. \n\nJ \n\n+3 \n\nugly weader \n\n1 \n\n1. 20 in M.K \n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M \n\nInscriure \n\n9. \n\n\" \n\nH. by X \n\n- \n\n2.45 \n\n2 \n\n$12 \n\n13 \n\n21 \n\n:: \n\n| \n\nн \n\n4 \n\n. \n\n29ki \n\nJE. \n\nJa \n\n5 \n\n11 \n\n59 15 \n\nBy Soperaterra's. \n\n5,3). 24.37 \n\n8 May \n\n20.45 \n\nور \n\nE by N. \n\nጉ \n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008 \n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu \n\nSWly der:n \n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi \n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara \n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim. \n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites. \n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge \n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust \n\nnedors \n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of \n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying \n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her \n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven- \n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit \n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of \n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days. \n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and \n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The \n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile \n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con- \n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe- \n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist \n\nopium &makers. \n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving \n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian \n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease. \n\nNevertheless crio does \n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now \n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to! \n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to \n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately \n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present \n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty \n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti \n\nJunio \n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter \n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences. \n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue. \n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed \n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho \n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen- \n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa \n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores \n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there \n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste \n\nสปาไ \n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion \n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi \n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada \n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, and correcting spelling errors, spacing issues, and other formatting problems while preserving the original word count and order.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a collection of historical records and news articles from the \"China Overland Mail\" dated September 28, 1848. The text includes various sections such as government notifications, news, births, marriages, deaths, and reports on typhoons and their aftermath.\n\n## Step 3\nTo begin proofreading, we need to correct obvious spelling errors, remove extra spaces, and fix hyphenation or line-break artifacts. For example, \"calancity\" should be \"calamity\", \"savo 'ticias\" should be \"said Ticias\", and \"prusion pond\" should be \"prisoner or provision pond\" but based on context, it seems \"prision\" is likely meant to be \"provision\".\n\n## Step 4\nRejoining broken sentences and restoring paragraph breaks where necessary is also crucial. For instance, sentences split across lines without logical reason should be merged.\n\n## Step 5\nThe text contains sections that need to be formatted into Markdown. Headers, sub-headers, bold types, and tables need to be formatted accordingly. For example, main titles should be preceded by \"#\", sections by \"##\", and bold text should be surrounded by \"**\".\n\n## Step 6\nFile references should not have any spacing inside parentheses, e.g., \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72\". Page numbering lines, if detected, should be kept as they are, usually six lines in total, three at the page beginning and three at the end.\n\n## Step 7\nNewspaper texts might not make sense due to OCR errors in recognizing columns. Reorganizing them like a puzzle might be necessary to restore the original meaning.\n\n## Step 8\nData in tables should be properly organized to reconstruct the table format.\n\n## Step 9\nSome Chinese writing might start from right to left, and if such reversal is observed, the text should be reversed to meet modern reading habits.\n\n## Step 10\nThe output should be in HTML using for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nAge\n\nherself and infant daughter, were\n\ncalamity Entirely\n\ncut off.\n\nThat the said \"Ticias smithers the month of January\n\nhundred and forty a proportion\n\nlowa\n\ndy creating\n\n\"\n\nby this\n\nfree\n\nof his to a\n\nprovision pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases.\n\nof his saying disabled (your) believes that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during\n\nthe remainder of his life.\n\n\"That it has\n\nbeen\n\na\n\npetitione.\n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration\n\nand render assistance to the survivors of\n\npersons killed in their device and a lit...\n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers\n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly\n\nprays that she\n\nVOL. I. No. 9.\n\nChina\n\nOverland\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China,\n\nBy Order,\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE,\n\n12th August, 1848.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nA Boats\n\nBoots\n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is\n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with\n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nConsul.\n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae.\n\nbe allowed\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nmay some small pension\n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to\n\nsupport\n\n4\n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for.\n\nAnd your petition to\n\nEver pray te.\n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers.\n\nlue steered for.\n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail.\n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\n64\n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM.\n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to\n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx\n\njunk and me who hire\n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven\n\ndhuli\n\n*ximating\n\nof Nether\n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners,\n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were\n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar-\n\nen beide 0115 on\n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain.\n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended.\n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;---\n\npar.\n\nM.\n\nplying\n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED.\n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and\n\nYes Clock,\n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not\n\nCourse Grace Modlig\n\nJis (Cafe Cotto\n\nForeign Lung Colon,\n\nRay Coto, uoleened,\n\ninfertor Fort,\n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found\n\nOf that stabburn craw\n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant\n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon\n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ;\n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox\n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka,\n\nWe also extract from the Friend of\n\nI\n\n13ch cleaned,\n\noh gluing Boston,\n\n10.\n\nElo\n\nWhite Lead,\n\nColuared Paper\n\nFlowed and Note Paper,\n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur\n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so\n\n11.\n\nDi\n\nSugar Candy\n\nሱ\n\nKwangbang, dan,\n\nGreat Glager,\n\nTony Chry Sucks,\n\nCents.\n\n\"1\"\n\nPicen 2\n\n· Dale\n\nWhico.\n\nPcular de\n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez,\n\nMetropolitan Gods.\n\nBlack Treppe\n\nBlack and Gruen, du..\n\nBarn Wood,\n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids\n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay\n\n-\n\nTAIFOONG.\n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY\n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity.\n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information—\n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China.\n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2,\n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground.\n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th\n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre-\n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years,\n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu\n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought\n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order,\n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i\n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from\n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar-\n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire\n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed.\n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348.\n\nOverlang China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN\n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon.\n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter,\n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter\n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P.\n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK.\n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens,\n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti-\n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens,\n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean\n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc.\n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas\n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i\n\nAt b\n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge.\n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani\n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa.\n\nArt:lery.\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON.\n\nPer\n\nVIDEO\n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t\n\nPre\n\n& 10 8\n\n40\n\nX\n\nSappers and Minora. with erent......\n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551\n\nH\n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181\n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the\n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nL'onsul.\n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:--\n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship\n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and\n\nAs all for\n\nothers severely wounded.\n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.)\n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa\n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received\n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l.\n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill.\n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed,\n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house\n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich\n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles\n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt\n\n\"Foreign in\n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer-\n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks\n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro\n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this\n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be\n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou\n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by\n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest\n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors.\n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept,\n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte,\n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting\n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese,\n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a\n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment\n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli\n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on\n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next.\n\nwith.\" On recript of the the\n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca\n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp\n\npondnet your royarske,\n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock\n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts\n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the\n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples,\n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro-\n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated\n\nand\n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS\n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of\n\nevash, and\n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei\n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag,\n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin\n\n1sthet romanda The\n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that\n\nidly\n\n31st Auz. 10\n\n..\n\n3. NE\n\nheavy pas\n\n11\n\n90.24 N.IS.\n\nJ\n\n+3\n\nugly weader\n\n1\n\n1. 20 in M.K\n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M\n\nInscriure\n\n9.\n\n\"\n\nH. by X\n\n-\n\n2.45\n\n2\n\n$12\n\n13\n\n21\n\n::\n\n|\n\nн\n\n4\n\n. \n\n29ki\n\nJE.\n\nJa\n\n5\n\n11\n\n59 15\n\nBy Soperaterra's.\n\n5,3). 24.37\n\n8 May\n\n20.45\n\nور\n\nE by N.\n\nጉ\n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008\n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu\n\nSWly der:n\n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi\n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara\n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim.\n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites.\n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge\n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust\n\nnedors\n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of\n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying\n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her\n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven-\n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit\n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of\n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days.\n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and\n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The\n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile\n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con-\n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe-\n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist\n\nopium &makers.\n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving\n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian\n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease.\n\nNevertheless crio does\n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now\n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to!\n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to\n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately\n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present\n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty\n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti\n\nJunio\n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter\n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences.\n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue.\n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed\n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho\n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen-\n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa\n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores\n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there\n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste\n\nสปาไ\n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion\n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi\n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada\n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229567, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "Page 43\n\nEXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF\n\nALL NATIONS.\n\nCorrespondence between the Hongkong and Canton Committees.\n\nHONGKONG, 25th June, 1850.\n\nJohn Bowring, Esq., LL.D., H.B.M. Consul; R.B. FORBES, Esq., U.S. Consul; and the other Foreign Consuls, Canton.\n\nGENTLEMEN,—At a Public Meeting held yesterday for the purpose of devising the best means of procuring specimens of the Produce and Manufactures of China, to be sent to the Exhibition of all Nations, to be held in London in 1851, a Committee of the following Gentlemen, the Honble Mr Edger, Mr Bush, U.S. Consul, Mr Stuart, and Mr Campbell, were appointed to do all that to them appeared necessary to further the objects for which the Meeting was held.\n\nThe Rules laid down by the Committee in London, require that a Central Authority in each country should be constituted by the Government of that country. As regards China, therefore, the Government of Peking would require to be applied to. This, however, would not in all probability lead to any satisfactory result, as the object would not be understood, and an application might even tend in some measure to defeat the efforts that may have to be made to obtain the specimens required.\n\nIt seemed therefore advisable to the Meeting, that a Central Committee should be appointed in this place, in order to conform as near as possible to the rules laid down in England, that that Committee should advise with the Committees which will be necessary to form in Canton and Shanghai, should correspond if necessary with the proper parties in London, and receive and forward from this, the articles that may be collected.\n\nWith that view the present Committee has been constituted, to be a connecting link and central point, and to assist as far as they are able in promoting the general object.\n\nIt is one in which nearly all nations are interested, and which they are expected to promote; it is one therefore, it is to be hoped, that will engage the attention of all in China, in which all will unite to carry out with energy, and if with combined effort, it will no doubt be effected in a manner worthy of the Foreign Community.\n\nWe cannot expect that articles will be forwarded by Chinese; we must therefore do so for them.\n\nPurchasers must be made and Committees will require to be appointed to make proper and suitable collections.\n\nThe Committee intend inviting parties here to put down in Paper the amounts they will guarantee towards the funds that may be needed; and should, after the sale of the articles in London, any loss occur, which is not likely, it will be divided proportionally to each, according to the amounts put down.\n\nThe Committee would recommend the same course to be followed at Canton, and the Manager of the Oriental Bank has kindly and liberally offered to advance the amount that may be thus guaranteed.\n\nAs the time now remaining for carrying out the objects we have in view, is very limited, you will no doubt agree with this Committee, that the measures that may be necessary should be adopted without delay; and although the aid and interference of Governments are purposely dispensed with, we would still hope that you will not object among your respective Countrymen, to assist in organising a plan with which all will be willing and anxious to co-operate.\n\nTrusting that the importance of the object we have in view will be a sufficient apology for addressing you on this occasion,—We have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servants,\n\nFor the Committee,\n\nA. CAMPBELL.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE, CANTON, 27th June, 1850.\n\nGENTLEMEN,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 25th instant, and am much gratified to find that the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations has excited so much interest.\n\nI imagine the official communications which have been made to Hongkong are from the Colonial Department.\n\nOur instructions have been received from the Foreign Office, through Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, who has already, in conformity with those instructions, communicated with the Imperial Commissioner, as I have done with the local authorities, and with such other influential Chinese as are likely to assist in advancing our common objects.\n\nIn conformity with the directions I received to take such measures as I deemed most advisable for interesting both the British and the Foreign community, I requested all the Foreign authorities and Consuls with the leading merchants present in Canton, to assemble at the British Consulate on the 25th instant. The call met a universal and most cordial response. A large and influential Committee was immediately formed—various Sub-Committees were charged with the management of the details. I have reason to believe that the appeal for pecuniary co-operation will be liberally and even munificently met; and among the Sub-Committees is a Committee of Correspondence charged with the duty of communicating with the Committees of Hongkong, Shanghai, and any other localities with which it may be desirable to hold intercourse. I have the honour to enclose a copy of the proceedings for your information; and as your own views may be somewhat modified by what has taken place here, I am quite sure that your aid and co-operation will be highly valued.\n\nMr Forbes, who has most cordially lent his very valuable assistance, is now at Macao. The French, Dutch, Prussian, Peruvian, and Chilian Consuls are on the Committee, as is Dr Parker, the United States' Chargé d'Affaires. We cannot as yet say what amount of assistance we may derive from the Chinese, but we do not despair of some success among them, and have taken the necessary steps for that object.\n\nIn countries so remote as this, the mode of action cannot be strictly limited to the rules applied by our Government where Diplomatic relations are free and unrestrained, and where the disposition to co-operate is strikingly and so encouragingly manifested.\n\nI venture to anticipate that we shall be able to forward no unworthy contribution to the Exhibition, and I am sure that every favourable interpretation and every reasonable facility will await our combined exertions.\n\nI do not delay a post (not as the Chairman of the Canton Committee, but in my Consular capacity) in replying to your letter; and I can assure you that I shall be delighted to do every thing in my power in furtherance of a purpose nobly and generously conceived, and which ought to be carried out in the same spirit. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant,\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nA. CAMPBELL, Esq.,\n\nand the Committee at Hongkong.\n\nH.B.M. Consul\n\nCANTON, 7th June, 1850.\n\nSIR,—Your letter, dated 25th instant, addressed to Dr Bowring and all the foreign Consuls here, on behalf of the Committee formed at Hongkong for assisting the views of H.B.M.'s Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations to be held in London in 1851, has been communicated to us, and the letter which Dr Bowring proposes to write to you in reply will inform you how warm has been the interest exhibited here on the same subject at a Meeting held at the British Consulate on the 25th inst., when a Committee of Canton residents was formed and plans organised for the better carrying into effect the views of the meeting.\n\nWe would beg to refer to Dr Bowring's reply in which we fully concur, and hope an active and friendly co-operation of the Hongkong and Canton Committees, along with other Committees formed in other parts of China, will tend to offer interesting and complete contributions towards the realization of the grand plan in view.—We are, Sir, your most obedient servants,\n\nROBERT S. STURGIS, for R.B. FORBES,\n\nU.S. Vice-Consul\n\nROBERT BROWNE,\n\nH.B.M. Consul.\n\nH.G.T. REYNVAAN,\n\nVice-Consul de France.\n\nW.W. PARKIN,\n\nPeruvian Consul.\n\nRICHARD CARLOWITZ,\n\nPrussian Consul.\n\nTO\n\nArch. Campbell, Esq.,\n\nHongkong.\n\nPage 43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230627, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "HONGKONG, 6th July, 1850.\n\nJOHN BOWRING, Esq., LL.D., Chairman of the Canton Committee.\n\nSIR, The absence of two of our Committee has prevented us acknowledging sooner the receipt of your letter of 27th, in reply to ours of the 25th ultimo, as also of the letter handed us through you, from the other Consuls at Canton.\n\nIt is with much pleasure we learn that such active measures had already been adopted by the Foreign Community in furtherance of the object respecting which we were induced to address you, and that our suggestions and wishes relating thereto, had in a great measure been anticipated.\n\nYou will perceive by our previous letter, addressed to you in your Consular capacity, that we always considered that details and other measures must necessarily be left to Committees formed at the places where selections of articles had to be made, but we see no reason to modify our views, and agreeing with those expressed at the Meeting held here, that there should be one Central Authority for all China, as most approaching the rules laid down by the Commissioners in London, and being consequently a measure most likely, under the circumstances, to meet with their favourable interpretation.\n\nIt was also the opinion that the adoption of such a measure would remove the objection and necessity of residents at our Five Ports acting independently of those at the others, and give to the exertions that might be made by all, that character of unanimity and combination so desirable, and most likely to lead to a satisfactory result; and we trust, Sir, with you, that the purpose so nobly and generously conceived by the consort of H. B. Majesty, will be carried out here in the same spirit.\n\nThe Meeting that was announced here on the 13th, and which took place on the 24th of last month, was not in consequence of any intimation from the Government of this settlement; it was not until the Meeting had assembled, that we were made acquainted that any instructions had been received from home; and we were not even then aware that your attention had, through Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary here, been directed to the subject.\n\nWe were appointed as a Committee to act in the only manner in which it was thought we could be of use; at the same time it is very far from our wish to be considered the Central Authority, if it is thought desirable to place it elsewhere.\n\nWe and others here are only anxious that a Central Authority generally, and if possible officially, recognised, should exist somewhere; and that for the purposes of the Exhibition, there should be a common fund, both being requisite in our opinion to the effectual carrying out of the object in which we are all interested. But we think that the circumstance of Canton acting independently of Shanghae and other places, will rather tend to defeat than promote that object, and by no means give to the undertaking the appearance and character which we had hoped it would have assumed.\n\nIf however you can succeed, as you think you will, in obtaining the recognition of your Committee as the Central Authority for China, by the Viceroy of Canton, the difficulty will be removed; and we shall then be glad to afford all the cooperation and assistance in our power. We have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient servants,\n\nF. T. BUSH.\n\nCHARLES J. F. STUART.\n\nA. CAMPBELL.\n\n[MR EDGER, absent.]\n\nCANTON, 16th July, 1850.\n\nMessrs F. T. BUSH, C. J. F. STUART, A. CAMPBELL,\n\nHonourable J. F. EDGER.\n\nGENTLEMEN,-At a Public Meeting of the Community held at the British Consulate on the 9th instant, relative to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851, your letter of the 6th July to Dr Bowring, H. B. M. Consul, was read, and transferred to the Corresponding Committee.\n\nAs Chairman of that Committee, the pleasing duty devolves upon me to express to you the satisfaction that the community here have felt at the interest that their Hongkong friends are taking in the proposed contribution to the Exhibition.\n\nThe Committee here do not doubt, from the zeal displayed, that the object will be carried out satisfactorily, and they will at an early day enter into correspondence with the London Commissioners through H.B.M. Plenipotentiary for the purpose of having articles sent from China, properly admitted to the Exhibition, and of explaining to them the anomalous position of the Foreign Community regarding any recognition of their acts by the Government of this country.\n\nYou are in error, it is thought, in supposing that Dr Bowring, in his correspondence with the Authorities in Canton, expected to obtain a recognition of the Committee here as a Central Authority, as his communications with those officials were only in the form of a notice of the intended Exhibition, in conformity with instructions that he had received from H. B. M. Government.\n\nThe Committee here will be pleased to have the Hongkong Community cooperate with them in carrying out the object in which they are engaged, and do not doubt that the well-known liberality of that community will be shewn in this case as it has been in all others. The Finance Committee here have already raised a considerable sum, and the Subscription List will soon be sent to your place.\n\nThe Committee have notified the Shanghae and Amoy Community through the Consuls and others at those Ports, of the steps that have been taken here, and have intimated to the former that they should leave them to act independently regarding funds, and the collection of articles they might wish to send to the Exhibition, but have expressed their readiness to forward such articles, should they wish to have them sent from this.\n\nThe arrival of the mail, and my absence from Canton for the past four days, has prevented me from having the pleasure of replying to your communication sooner.-I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,\n\nW. W. PARKIN, Chairman Corresponding Committee.\n\nW. W. PARKIN, Esq., Chairman of the Corresponding Committee.\n\nSIR, We have to acknowledge your letter of the 16th instant, in reply to our last communication to Dr Bowring, which was referred by him to the Corresponding Committee.\n\nWe observe that it is the intention of your Committee at an early date to enter into correspondence with the London Commissioners for the purpose of having the articles sent from China properly admitted to the Exhibition, and we regret to learn that our anticipations as to the result of Dr Bowring's communications with the Chinese Authorities have not been realized.\n\nWe also observe that your Committee have notified to the Shanghae and Amoy Communities, your readiness to forward such articles as they may wish sent for Exhibition, and that you leave them to collect their own funds and specimens.\n\nWe differ from your Committee as to the soundness of the principle involved in paragraph 6 of your letter under reply, namely, that the Committees at the different Ports should act independently of each other; as it will tend, we think, in many ways to lessen the value of the China contribution; but we have no doubt that your Committee have strong reasons for the course they are adopting.\n\nIn conclusion, we feel that, except as a Central Committee to correspond with the London Commissioners and advise with the Committees formed at the Consular Ports, and, as it were, to combine the efforts of the various foreign Communities, we cannot be of any great service in the good cause; and as your Committee have undertaken these duties, we have much pleasure in leaving them in your hands, trusting that this important and interesting work may be carried out in a manner to reflect credit on the Foreign Community of China, and worthy of the Exhibition. We remain, Sir, your obedient servants,\n\nC. J. F. STUART\n\nJ. F. EDGER.\n\nA. CAMPBELL.\n\nF. T. BUSH.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "190 of 1856.\n\nInclosure Notin2 Dosp:\n\nChief Justice.\n\nand Salary of\n\nW Z Beran, the lecting Clark to the\n\nwith the appointment\n\nDocuments connected\n\n16th May, to 2nd June 1886.\n\n184\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX, No. 21.\n\nINTIMATION S.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n1558, at the Ufftoo of the UNITED STATES CONSULATE in Canton, +KUJUTA on Assignment of all their Property, rosi and perevaal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to al concern- ed to make payment to us of ali sams due to, and to present to us pay claims against the said Firm\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1856,\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE\n\nWHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co.\n\nChina, d, ons Wyle, a bunch of our back\n\nTE have established st hongkong, under the sam\"HK andereigned, having been appointed Agents for M. LUDWIG WIESE is admited a Fartner in our INSURANCE SOCIETY, are rady to isce Policies Firni.\n\nin benaif of that Office, payable in Smore, Paasa, SIRMSSEN & Co..\n\nBANGOUS, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, LouDos, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSUON, SONE & Co. Canton, 234 January, 1856. LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\nCanton, is ampowered to accept KISKS on sesaat of this Ufica.\n\nRUSSELL & Coa\n\nJAMES PURUUN & Co.\n\nCanton, 18th Starch, 1956.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nSeamens' Hospital.\n\nTrustees. Jussen JANDING, Esq., C. D. WILLIA\n\nCantec. 51st March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH to authorised to Rign the name of cur Firm in China per procuration.\n\nKING & Co. Cantos, 3th March, 1855.\n\nKOTICE.\n\nReq. Hon. W. T. Music, R., R. 8. WA MR. N. WEISMANN, is the day whefted a Partner\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & 0. Swam Navigation Co-\n\nany, (ox officio.)\n\nTreasurer-L, Maniac, Esq.\n\nResident Suryan- . JACE\n\nConsulting Buryev-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nTS ADMISSION,\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nin our Firm, in China.\n\nCanton, lat May, 1855.\n\nNOTICE\n\nRM153 and Ca\n\nTR HUGH BOLD GIBB was add a Partner\n\nin our Fies on 1st July, 1965.\n\nGIRE, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nMt.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndollar,\n\ndollars,\n\n2\n\nIntermediate Warda,.. .. 1 Private hours, Fatients are also adaitted on depolta, as the following rates, renewable une day previous to the amount deposited having bera expsqúed.\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nIntermediate,\n\nPrivate Roncs,\n\n$20\n\n.. $15\n\n-- $ 30 The Japaine or Consignes of Vessels manat he respon sible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the\n\nespital. N.B-All Hospital Bills to be receipted by the Treasurer quly.\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nANGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION between\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. CURSY, haming ban juted up expiresly for the Liver Trogh, will\n\nLow run regularly between the aburu Places, us follows,\n\nVi\n\nFrom Hongkong to Cuntua,\n\nevery MONDAY M THURSDAY, at 8 c'olock a.. From Orion to Hongkong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, 11 o'clock ..\n\nRATES GASS25.\n\nEuropeans, First-class,\n\nChinese, doy...\n\nBuropeans, Second-class, Chinese,\n\nV.,\n\nJeakfast.\n\nCHANGES FOR DEPRESAN\n\nDinner, fineluding Wine and Beer,...\n\nCARGO\n\n$5 each.\n\n$each,\n\n2\n\nOwing to the Willtzea large Cargo Capacity, it is inculed that he shall receive Goze an FT at\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET. immediate at -The\n\nNo. 1,327\n\nDISCOVERY OF THE TEA PLANT IN SYLART-The Secretary submitted a letter to its address, of which the following a un extract, form T. P. Larkins, Esq.. Mag- istrate of Sihet, anuruncing the discovery of the tea plant in his district Beronith I enclose in a box specimen and send of the tes plant which I have much pleasure in informing you has been discovered growing abundently to the South east of my district. I also send in the same box a seed box of the Cachar Tes plant sent to me by Captain Verner, by which you will perceive that the trive iz the same. I have this day re ported the circumstance to the Government of Bengal, and should be obliged by year making known the fact in ny doubt)-the leaves are also intakeable, 1 should also begin if you would lay the specimen before the Saniery at their next meeting, as the discovery will be of Much inwease benent to Goferatnent and the peuple of the country. The spot where the specimens sent were fousi\n\nthe Chandkhana Hills, Pesgannal Garasutter, Zillah Sylhet, Thannah Latos, close to the borders of\n\nON and after this day. Mr. MAXIMILIAS FUN of to dodatud it he actually les (of which I bave\n\nROBERT 8. WALKER, Agent.\n\nHongkong, 3d March 1854. RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. mundersigned having koen appointed Agents for Independent Tipperah, on the river Llegy, a branch of the above named Society, are prepared to grant the river Sila, which runs into the river Kachuo, which POLICTES, payable in London, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, falls into the Swareee, a branch of the Soorma; it is RANGOON, PENANG, and SoDAPORN.\n\nsituated us the crow flies alles from Sylhet, or a day's GIBD, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\njourney by native measure. I am uinking local en- Hongkong, 26th April, 1830.\n\nquiries contrning the discovery, and will let you know THE LONDON AND GRIENTAL STEAM\n\nore in a few days, when I hope to be able to send you a Eutine tree, seed, flowers, and it complete.\" TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. f Established in 1843) fine Undersigned are prepLICIBS at Lozas Bad\n\n(covered by protecting the varicus LoKDON INSURANCE COMPANIES,) by the L'EN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS trom\n\nWDWELLING HOUSE A BUSINESS PRR tons and Hongkong, to d may, Shaughan, the Si City,\n\nMISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining Laxe in the rear of the Godowas, situated in a modern- tral position, and fronting the River.\n\nAppis to\n\nDIROM, GRAY & Co. Shanghae, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nPHOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent crowns, Lap IG WHAR ., attarhed, at present in the occupa tion of Messrs. Lixall, Bris & Co. and silvatud on pars į of Marine Trot No. 10.\n\nFor particules apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong. 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR BALE,\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTUST received by the undersigned,-- 100 Barrels Husch FLOUR. 1,000 K-beg Chiti do. 5,000 RAISINS.\n\nAlso, on hand,- 40,000 Yeah-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chilt York, and guaranteed to keep well.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1966.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nESING.\n\nCeston, the Presidencies of India, Saws, and England.\n\nTue laterent in the protecting Policia in eiged to bu P. and O. 8. N. Company for the purpose of their! bucoming the Bedum af Payment in the event of Lok.\n\nFor KATY OF PRIMIx and other Information, apply ta!\n\nROBERT S. YALER, Hongkong.\n\nMAXIMIAN CHEN, Canton.\"\n\nE. WARDEX, Shanykan,\n\nH. T. MARSHALL, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOTELL, Culcuni\n\nROBERT FRANCE, Madrus, T\n\nJORS RIT, Bombay\n\nLention, Sub January, 1854.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANT OF LONDON. HE Ludersigned having been appointed Aarars in Cara for the shore COMPANY, se prepared to uceps ASSURANCES at Hongkong, under:\n\n1st-On Buildings of Brick or Stouc, covered with Tee, Slates, Metal, or ather lusumbustible Material, Gogether will their Contents, when each Buildings a ipulated from al: olur,-Rate of Preminen, i per t por Áæ\n\nd-On suck Buildings and their Contents, when uot soientated, at the Huts of 1 per cent per Ånmu.\n\nAssurances for 8 Months, and for 3 Months of the Annual Rate will be charged\n\nOf the 1st Cian-Azurunes, for the present, will be f acceptert other of 10.00 only od ons Hiak.\n\nAnd of the 20 Cla--To the extent of £8,600.\n\nA Building and its Contente taken together form one Risk. Thus the thore Sums may be underwritica either\n\nthe Building and part on the Cozicat\n\nZorko rotch 38 per separate Tarif, to be had on appliPORT WINE Bottle, SHERRY in Potle and Wood Building along, or the Contents alone; or, pat o cation to the Agents Cargo, when in sufficiently large quantities, will be delivered alongside Vexsola, if pre- tickle.\n\nTow\n\nWill be undertaker, an Afoderute Terms; and insend- ing Fangers will, when possible, be infirmed by Cir- cular 38 up as any such service has been engaged for.\n\nFor further particular, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT 8. WALKER, Hongkong, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, CITY.\n\nHongkong, 24th Decanter, 1955,\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nA THOMAS L. WALKEN, Architect und Surveys,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, vngkong. NUTION.\n\nuntersigned Lave ablished themselves us Mor- mul Agents in this per, in Courtnership, ander the style and Farm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEE CAMA &\n\nBOMANJ. FRAMJEE QAMA, FRAMJEE EDULJKE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, ibit.\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. JAMES CROSSLEY ceased to be a partner in our month August Lant, or which date is jalutusĖ witĮ responetility terminated.\n\n0. C SCBWADE & Co.\n\nSangiac, 27th March, 1850,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFIVE Business of the Inte MR JUZE VICENTE JORGE will 110m this dais be carried on by she sundersigned under the name of JUZE JORGk & Co. All voutanding accounts of the Metate will be rusvivud 4 settici by the new Pinto,\n\nJOZE JORGE.\n\nIZIDORO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. Mac, 3d April, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nM-JAMES MOCUNNICK is suterized to sign our\n\nper procurat Cautca, 12th January, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nALVUND & Ca\n\n--\n\nMTHOMAS D. BOYD is authorized to siga muz\n\nAmey, 1911: May, 1855.\n\nMR.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nF. D. SYME & Co.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON joined me as a Partner\n\non the 1st of January last. The business will ; I carried on in the name of 1. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\n1. W. MACKENZIE\n\nCzaton, 5th March, 1856.\n\nMR. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public,\n\nMR. GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitors, Notaries Publin, dec., Queen Road, Victoria.\n\nBEER in Bottla. Apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON. East Point Godowns, 15th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDEST English STEAR COAL B Apply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1866.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nBy\n\nEST Leuen STEAM COAL. Parte, 6$50 per Tuo.\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1986.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nNu Assurance is to be considered in force until the Fremium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As sured will be entitled to participate in the Profits alter Five sucusive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sond in fail partfeclars of the Risk to be taken; any Deviation from which without the constat of the Company, will vitiate the Paltey.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, at January, 1816.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY.\n\nSUPERIOR TINTO and WHITE WINE, in Caska SING, Bread and Bisnis Baker, and General Sture-\n\nox Brigara\" ium Lisbon. Apply to\n\nBRANDAO & Co, Canton,\n\nkeeper, OPRE 1 intite, that he has cuasmatod arnegocents to extablish a Branch of hir Bouse at CANTON, in New French Hong, and will be happy to J. C. LUIZ DA SILVA, Mamely the ladies and Gratlemen of the later place M. DE CARVALH10), Hongking. Hu Hate himeel:\n\nthat, from his long experience in th'a, with that great desideratama superior article of Bread Juices, and from the facilities he passes of prouting at all times that farest Load of American Plaur, vix, Gallego, he will be able to give a better article that that fucoished by any rival establishment\n\nHongkong, 31 March, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nPARENCA CORKS.\n\nQUAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, Fana and GOLDEN SHERBOS\n\nMouton, St. Estophe, St. Julien, and Leoville.\n\nCLAREN of Superior quality---Chrteau, Margaux, Apply in usúxose and Canzon\n\nLYALL, STILL & C Hongkong, 7th September, 1855\n\nFOR SALE\n\nBeth will also keep oustantly on hand, an sort mont of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, FORTER in Quarts and Pints, GILMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, &c. o.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1866.\n\nL\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. INDER the Baperiutendence of au Experienced K- OI Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY! repaired. SHAFTS of the best English Iron trui 5 Tal ALEX WILSON,\n\n9 inches diameter. Urders to be addressed to Mesara Mesere. JING, MA & Co.'s R A. BARRETTO & Co., Mantis.\n\nGodowns. East Point, 31st October, 1852.\n\nSUPER MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter xented with despech SAM NOISES & BOILERS\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\nTHE undersigand has received authority by the last jove by the above Office, payable in THREE Moarna after notice, in place of Six Months na ueretofore.\n\n203. S. WALKER, Agent.\n\nHongkong. 6th June, 1855.\n\nNOTICE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. THE underegnet, Agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grass POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent af £19,009, un any Building or on rebandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.,\n\nHoogkony. 12th April, 1855,\n\nAgenta\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE LIBRARY OF THE MURRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY, UGT deposited in a Room in the Coun toves, is open every day, from 1 to 4 alura .., t y, for the giving out and exchang w Books Purtica, obtain Mc advantages of the Library, on payment of a Ausual Sutuription of 45\n\nMembers of the Som members of the Society, qua\n\nBy order of the Trusteen,\n\nHoogkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGUL Secretary.\n\nHOME EDUCATION, CHELTENHAM, LADY, the Widow of a Medical Man, who by Arosided in the Esat, is desirous of receiving Pupil\n\nto create witle or own Daughters, with the Jesistance of a resident versas.\n\nFurther partexiars and references will be obtaiatú on application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nfor the Admission inte las frantly of the cintures R Rav. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a fw vacancies of such FOREN RESULT at the Fres Porce, who may be desirous of wavutiag for them the Comforts of u HOME, and the Advantages of LIBERAL EDUCA TION.\n\n#\n\nFor Tarm and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Gough Street, VIPma, Hosesong.\n\nThe Secretary intimated that he had referred the speriment seat by Mr. Latkins to Dr. Thomson, who had Bengal Hurkara, Feb, 22. pronounced them to belong to the true te plant\n\nMR. BRIGHT ANd the Pre-In his lat speech Mr. Bright sud-if I were the editor of a newspaper, or a writer for one, if I could not in the columns of the paper'state to the people the fair facts, could not afford to do that I would choose some other both for and against, that they might know precisely where they were going and what they were doing-it I way of earning ray bread. The writer in the newspaper could not state to the people the fair facts, both for and may retort, i were speaker on the bustings, sou I ngsinst, that they might know precisely where they were going and what they were doing, I would that way arouth for ever.\"Examiner.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239888, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "TRANSLATION FROM THE CHINESE.\n\nNotification of Mr Parkes, H. B. M. Consul at Canton, issued by order: for the removal of misconceptions, by declaration of the truth, to the end that confidence may be restored to the public mind. In every discussion there is a position which is the correct one; nor can a just conclusion upon the merits of any question be arrived at, until the arguments on both sides shall have been heard.\n\nThe Governor General, Yeh, has been at great pains, ever since the approach of the British forces from the vessel under command of the Admiral, H. E. Sir M. Seymour, to inflame the public mind by the circulation of unfounded statements on the subject; and it is to counteract the evil effect but too probably to be apprehended from these, that H.B.M. Plenipotentiary has instructed the Consul to issue a Notification of the plain truth to the gentry and people of the city and suburbs of Canton,\n\nAt Hongkong, being a British Colony, it is competent for the owner of any vessel of any country, when he shall have obtained the requisite security, to make application, through the proper official channels, to the supreme authority for a Colonial Register. Under this the vessel hoists a British Ensign, and the register once issued, she is regarded in all respects as a British vessel, while those on board her become alike responsible to British control, and entitled to British protection. The conditions of this colonial registration were communicated some months ago to the Governor General by the Minister Plenipotentiary, who is also Governor of the Colony, and a translation of the Colonial Ordinance was enclosed to him in His Excellency's despatch.\n\nMeanwhile, the Lorcha Arrow, a vessel duly registered as above, having come up to Canton in the earlier part of October, information, it appears, was given to the authorities by a person who had been robbed by pirates at sea, that one of the delinquents was serving as a sailor on board the Lorcha. Now, by the Treaty between England and China, all authority over British vessels at any of the Five Ports is vested in the Consuls. The proper course, therefore, if any question had been raised against the Lorcha, as she was flying British colours in the port of Canton,--being one of the Five, would have been, to call on the British Consul to enquire into the case and take the necessary steps. Without any reference, however, to the Consul, a party of the local marine boarded the vessel, tore down her ensign, seized twelve men who were on board, and carried them into the city.\n\nThe Consul, of course, as soon as he became aware of this violation of his jurisdiction, reported it to his superior, H. M. Plenipotentiary. He at the same time made his complaint to H. E. Yeh, as Imperial Commissioner, accompanying his statement of the facts by a request that H. E. would cause the seamen who had been carried off from the vessel to be restored to her publicly; and that a letter of apology should be written. At 8 in the evening came another despatch from H. E. Yeh, requesting the Consul to inform him why his despatch of the morning had not been acknowledged.\n\nThe Consul, in reply, put in the hands of the officer sent, two extracts from his letters before referred to, reciting the substance of his requisition, and the form in which it was to be complied with namely, that the men, publicly removed from the vessel, should be as publicly restored to her.\n\nIt being thus apparent that farther protraction of the correspondence would be of no advantage to the settlement of the question at issue, there remained no alternative but to place the matter in the hands of the Admiral, His Excellency, unwilling to inflict unnecessary injury upon the inhabitants, confined himself in the first instance to the capture of some of the forts along the river; this done, he directed the Consul to warn the Governor General, that if he persisted in refusing to listen to us, more serious proceedings would be rendered inevitable. The Governor General proposing nothing, the Admiral proceeded to possess himself of the remaining forts along the Canton River, he then breached the City wall, and blew up the Tsing Hai Gate.\n\nNow, His Excellency has been brought to this point by no intention of his own; he has been simply driven onward by the determined obstinacy, and extreme discourtesy, of the Governor General. The original claim advanced was, comparatively speaking, of no great magnitude. Less could not have been demanded than the formal rendition of a crew unauthorizedly seized without reference to the Consul. To the high official of a nation, with whom the rule and practice of what is due from man to man are so important a consideration, what could have been so easy as to acknowledge an error committed, and to give assurance that none such should be repeated?\n\nHow widely different a course was pursued! For several years past, the high authorities at Canton have entrenched themselves in inaccessibility to foreign officials, pleading always that the people are opposed to the admission of foreigners within the walls. It has hence resulted that discussions, which might have been disposed of in a single interview, have endured through months of correspondence, and this, too, without any satisfactory result. The present case commences with an insult to our flag, that is to say, an affront is put upon our dignity as a State - this is followed by the unauthorized seizure of sailors subject to British control and protection; we complain, and our assertions are contradicted; in order that due atonement might be made for the affront that had been offered to his authority as Consul. He added, that if it were still desirable to examine the parties, he was prepared to conduct an enquiry with any officer of his own rank, who might be deputed for the purpose.\n\nThe Governor General replied, that the Lorcha was not a foreign vessel. He sent back some of the men, but nine of the twelve that had been taken; but these the Consul did not think it right to receive; and, under the instruction of the Plenipotentiary, he now demanded, besides restoration of the whole number, a letter of apology for their seizure, and assurance that nothing of the kind should occur again,-to be given within forty-eight hours. The Plenipotentiary himself wrote to the Commissioner, on the 12th October, to the same effect, adding that, unless the required satisfaction were accorded within the period assigned, it would be left to the Naval Commander-in-Chief to exact it. This letter reached Canton on the 15th October, but was left without answer for eight days. H. E. Yeh then sent a reply, in which he repeated what he had already said to the Consul. To the requisition made by the latter, he paid no more attention than before.\n\nH. E. the Admiral, unwilling to resort to force without due deliberation, waited from one day to another, until the 21st October, when the Consul, under farther instructions from the Plenipotentiary, addressed a last letter to the Imperial Commissioner. He was now told, that unless he conceded what had been asked for by 6 o'clock in the evening of the following day, the naval forces would act. At noon of the following day, an officer, of low rank was sent with the twelve seamen to the Consulate, with a message from His Excellency Yeh, that two of them were criminals, and must be sent back to him immediately.\n\nThink how completely at our mercy are the lives and property of the entire population of the city; and with what facility, in one moment of time, we could effect their utter destruction—a terrible contingency! You are told this in no spirit of boasting; the power of our nation is too well known to require that we should indulge in self-glorification; but simply because we have no wish to see a long continuance of these hostilities, so cruel to the feelings of the people, and so injurious to their interests.\n\nThere is but one means of escape from it, and this is in the hand of the chief Authority, who, if he lose no time in meeting our high Authorities, will be enabled, by arranging matters on a satisfactory footing with them, to put an end to the existing peril, and to prevent the recurrence of like misfortune in the time to come.\n\nNovember 1st, 1856.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240494, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "AGEN\n\n+\n\nIn conclusion we would say that, if we have erred, we have done so in ignorance, or rather in misapprehension of the law, and we would express a hope that, when His Excellency. Sir John Bowring. takes all the circumstances into consideration, the short voyage, the custom, and the absence of abuses during a very short period, will see fit to exonerate us from any blame or penalty in the matter.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n[(signed) F. D. Lyne & Co.]\n\nTrue Copy\n\nNo.55.\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Consulate\n\nAmoy, 12 August 1856.\n\nIn some connection with the subject of my Despatch No: 34, of this date is another which it is desirable to bring under Your Excellency's notice, this relating to the operation of the Chinese Passenger Act of 1855 upon the coolie emigration from this and the adjacent parts of the coast as observable down to the present time. It is unmistakable that the beneficial objects aimed at by the Act, and which it\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir John Bowring LL.D.\n\n \n&c. &c. &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241295, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX, No. 5.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nINTIMATIONS,\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co., of Canton, China, did, on the 11th day of March, 1856, at the Office of the UNITED STATES' CONSULATE in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all concerned to make payment to us of all sums due to, and to present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nJAMES PURDON & Co,\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAN Assignment of the property, real and personal, of the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Canton, Foo-chow, and Shanghae, China, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, I hereby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of all sums due to, and to present to me any claims against, the said Firm.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY.\n\nCanton, 7th August, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Archives of H. B. M's. Consulate at Canton are for the time transferred to the Government Office, Hongkong, where any Official Communications to H. M's. Consul can, until further notice, be addressed.\n\nBy Order of H. B. M's. Consul,\n\nCHARLES A. WINCHESTER,\n\nVice-Consul.\n\nOFFICE OF THE BRITISH CONSULATE, CANTON,\n\nGOVERNMENT OFFICE, HONGKONG,\n\n22d December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees.\n\nJOSEPH JARDINE, Esq.,\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS, Esq.\n\nHon. W. T. MERCER, Esq.,\n\nH.S. WALKER, Esq.\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company, (ex officio.)\n\nTreasurer.-H. MAGNIAO, Esq.\n\nResident Surgeon, RICHARD G. JACK,\n\nConsulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n75 cents per day.\n\n1 dollar\n\n2 dollars.\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previous to the amount deposited having been expended.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN.\n\n\"Hongkong Register\" Office, 1st January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nTHREE HOUSES known as Bayview.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to\n\nHongkong, 27th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each 13 feet 2 inches in length, and 9 feet 4 inches in breadth. Boilers and Steam-chest sufficiently spacious to work Engines of from One Hundred and Twenty to One Hundred and Thirty HORSE POWER. Each Boiler has 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Sixteen Months in the Vessel, and not having been used more than Six Weeks during the whole of that time.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nOn board the Screw Steamer \"Labuan,\"\n\nOff Whampoa\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself at Tacao, as Merchant, and General Agent.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1857.\n\nA. J. F. PE CASTRO.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. A. A. DE MELLO Jr., is authorized to sign the Firm's name per procuration.\n\nMacao, 31 January, 1857.\n\nA. A. DE MELLO & Co.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Copartnership ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The accounts of the late Firm will be liquidated by F. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nJ. M. ARMSTRONG.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nI have this day established myself as a Commission Merchant and General Agent on the premises lately occupied by Messrs. ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, under the Firm of F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMUND ... ceased on 31st December last.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, with one CYLINDER capable of working up to Ten HORSE POWER, fitted with Pump of 7 inches diameter, and Stroke of Piston Rod 6 inches, for pumping out Water Ballast, throwing with ease 20 Tons per hour. Also 2 Cast Iron BARRELS with COG WHEELS, for Loading or Discharging Cargo.\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBULAR BOILER for Engine, standing 5 feet 3 inches high, diameter 3 feet 7 inches.\n\nThe whole in first-rate working order.\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1858.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION,\n\nEstablished by Charter 1720.\n\nTHE undersigned, agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents\n\nHongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nNo. 1,364\n\nTHE undersigned having been appointed AGENT for the above Company, requests application to be made to him in case of any particular or general Averages on risks insured by them.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.\n\nInvested Capital £650,000.\n\nTHE greatest advantages offered to Insurers consistent with perfect security, as follows —\n\n1. A large Invested Capital as guarantee for the prompt settlement of all claims.\n\n2. Low rates for short term Policies.\n\n3. A Moderate scale for whole Life Insurances without profits.\n\n4. A liberal reduction of premium on Policies effected on the participating scale arising from division of profits.\n\n5. An annual division of profits.\n\n6. Seventy-five per cent of the declared Annual profits apportioned to Policies entitled to participate.\n\n7. Premiums payable half yearly, quarterly, or monthly;\n\nProspectuses and forms forwarded free to any part of India by Messrs. Braddon & Co., Agents and Secretaries, Calcutta, or to any part of China on application to\n\nR. S. WALKER,\n\nAgent.\n\nHongkong, 21st June, 1856.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICE.\n\nTHE Acting Post-Master regrets to say that owing to the pressure of business at the Post-Office, Hongkong, there can be no delivery for the present of Letters &c., but from the Post-Office window. Hours of attendance being as heretofore from 7 o'clock A.M. to 5 P.M.\n\nPost- The undersigned having been appointed AGENTS in executed with despatch.\n\nSTEAM ENGINES & BOILERS repaired,\n\nSHAFTS of the best English Iron from 5 to 9 inches diameter.\n\nOrders to be addressed to Messrs B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Manila.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 24th September, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nTHE REV. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of such FOREIGN RESIDENTS at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the Comforts of a HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION.\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Gough Street, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room in the COURT House, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock P.M., to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books. Parties, not members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary.\n\nENGLAND AS A ...\n\nPage 318", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241297, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.—Continued.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continued.\n\nDate of Tave\n\nCORSION BA\n\nSame\n\nArrival\n\n27 Frick\n\nHongkong Jan. 28\n\nSneon Draper\n\nAm. ship\n\n200\n\nAshly\n\n26 Luni\n\n81. Zephyr\n\n31 May\n\nSiilelena\n\nJan. 29\n\nTuss\n\nBrit. ship\n\n24 Middleton\n\nShanglice\n\nJan. 25\n\nBellast Da.\n\nBrit. ship\n\nSimons\n\n81 Sir Jus. Brooke\n\nBrit. ship\n\n8795k: amer\n\nFeb. 1 Carondon\n\n1 Bansive\n\nBrit. xh.\n\n#50 MoGregor\n\nSingapore Dec. 37\n\nGeneral\n\nSingapore\n\nSun. 21\n\nTroops\n\nSanghus\n\nJan. 27\n\nBala River\n\nMina.\n\n207 Bambay,&Jur.\n\nOman\n\n1 Jacob Cornelia\n\nDut, ship\n\n492 Rosenboom\n\nBombay\n\nH31S. Porkowess\n\nCanton\n\nSAILED.\n\n1 Chempion\n\n3+\n\n2 Harraventa\n\nBril. b.\n\n445 Thurs\n\nBrit. at.\n\n1000 Aba\n\nAm. h.\n\n500 Gray\n\nFHA\n\nDAIS\n\nNAXE\n\n| FLLO &\n\nKiu\n\nBonghong Jan. 26\n\nThobe Danbar\n\nBrit. al.\n\n70 Tucker\n\nA Separa\n\n#\n\nFitohormal Ca\n\nP. & D. S. N. Co\n\nOrder\n\nSoler and Co\n\n225yal, Suli and Co\n\n688 Fieber und On\n\nApril 21\n\n120 Tarner sad Co\n\nOrlen\n\nMarinera Hope, Lrg\n\nAu Nile, brig\n\nShanghae\n\nAmericaa\n\nSegnoant, ship\n\nB. R. Milaro, ship\n\nDurrington, ship\n\nChanning, ship'\n\nCompetitor, ship\n\nNorwester, sisip\n\nArrival\n\nDate Tur\n\nCOXSTOMER\n\n535 King and Ca\n\n090Isaac M. Bolf & Co\n\nNov. 125Moner!, O. & Co\n\niBee. 1174jRussell and Co\n\nDuc.\n\n1500. Huar nd Co\n\n740Campton. II. & Co\n\nBall, Nye and Co\n\nDec 10 128 Heard and Co\n\nCormances of Seas ship\n\nDeo. 24782 wall and Co\n\n118 Order 289Dent, Deals and Co\n\nDurch\n\nAlbrecht Beiling, q.\n\nNov. G. C. D. You\n\nTwist, b\n\n700 Schafer and Co\n\n464 Selacier and do\n\n4788chiler and Co\n\n244. D. Sys and Ga|\n\nSmidlow, ship\n\nWhite Swallow, skip\n\nDanish\n\nDanmark, barque\n\nGloriosa, brig\n\nOuto, barga\n\nVirgine. brig\n\nSept. 182 Cracapton, IL & Co\n\nSept. 1012001. Kinard and o\n\n270 W. Pasta and Co\n\n10. uste abi Qə\n\n230iems and Co\n\n21Johe Burd and s\n\nSALO\n\nFLAU&\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nNAME\n\nTURB CAPTAIN FRCM\n\nSURO CARGO\n\nCONSTUNTES\n\nAmoy Brininte\n\nFuhelusu\n\nJan. 24 Teze\n\nrit. g. 20 Jonca\n\nJun. Gener\n\nBrit. 283 Thanpean\n\nSinggu\n\nBrit, ul. 148 Dring !Swaluw\n\nJan. 26kenyal\n\nA. Hoard and Ca\n\nComajou mad Clu\n\nBankno.M. sad Ca\n\nDent and Co\n\nJolie, M. and Co\n\nHardin, 51. and Craner brig\n\nBila, barque\n\nEllen Oliver, barjue\n\nEtama, schooner\n\nEraignent, bowma\n\nNov. Jardine, M.and Candily\n\nAanina, eh.\n\nForerunner, lawonor\n\nOne.\n\nHine Gem, brig\n\nJly\n\nNov.\n\n¡Feb.\n\nJan.\n\nDay.\n\n49Rusell and Co\n\nNor.\n\nJuly 2685 King and Co\n\n165. Fardon & Co\n\nNov, 18180 King acul Co-\n\n140 aprak\n\nEagle, shin\n\n251 Dont, and Co\n\nBuggle Wing, ship\n\n595 Under\n\nGoblen Wert, sip\n\n38u0nder\n\nHenry Harlock, ship\n\nNov. 1\n\n204Aater and Ch\n\nMails, &c.\n\nJau. 17 General\n\nNov. 3 General\n\nHoratio, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\nNymph, Larque\n\nlec.\n\nPet, arque\n\nAng.\n\n400 filmy and Co\n\n375'Urder\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nAri.\n\n680 Russell and Co\n\nclita, schooner\n\nJan.\n\n140 Russell and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n434, Russell and Co\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh.jdet.\n\n134. Heard and Co\n\nSisters, brig\n\nHone\n\n158 is an! Ca\n\nUnele Tom, schooner\n\nept.\n\n1801ail, Still and\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nPA 15\n\nOriaz\n\nCAPESIN\n\nFGa\n\nCANDO\n\nCorrenbes\n\nI'vrluyLave\n\nArora, buoner\n\nMay\n\nPapushon, steuer\n\nJune\n\nLive. 326 and Co\n\n26 Aroat\n\n.bk. 27oct Lam a ale\n\nSingapore iShangrae\n\nHathwa Sundries\n\n27 Remi\n\nBr, str. 229)and\n\nShanghac\n\nSundries\n\nBria ok. 3748{lva\n\n29 Recapont\n\nBrit. str. 336 Crockett\n\nSingapore Sundrice\n\nShanghas\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nSandrian Wm. Pustau and Co\n\nKing end\n\nos n Cz der Sandries Jarine, M, sud Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJan. 14 266 Siemen and Co\n\nCarlow, schooner\n\nSupt\n\nFlorida, big\n\nΚαν.\n\nHado, abip\n\nแบบ\n\n$49 Queboil and Co\n\nUse Lyal. Still and Co\n\n597W.M.Bobinet & fo\n\nSev Jan.\n\n250 Uverweg ad Co\n\n133 W. Pustau and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nFapocanz buraz\n\nau\n\nAdmiral Laman, ship\n\nDes\n\nJaunius), pokaduer\n\nies.\n\n+\n\n20 Lahura\n\nBeit, str. 400jBrowes\n\nIserl, rig\n\nAky.\n\n24 Alapco\n\nBrit, bit. 677 Mason\n\nLindsay and Co\n\nLima, barque\n\nNov.\n\nBonabag, 20. Muila, fc\n\nSleeglina Sundrier\n\nShanghon Sundries\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.--Continued.\n\njatin Long, barco\n\nJune\n\nMary Ralp\n\nThe\n\n404 Biousson and Co\n\nW. Pastan and s\n\nWm. Pusta al Co\n\nFustina, burqve\n\nAng.\n\n337 in Salt\n\nMercarius, arque\n\n1808chur and O\n\nthiader, atque\n\nSenator, b\n\n250W. Put and Tə\n\nPlclades,\n\nJuly\n\nPrussian\n\nAinarika, brig\n\nOcc.\n\n21 Tutmeet and Co\n\nVernel, hig\n\nDea.\n\n21€ Dreyer and Ca\n\nSiamese\n\nDec.\n\n225|Steraan and Co\n\nSCIPS\n\nFhanbury\n\nBouits, brig\n\nNov.\n\n311 John B\n\nBangkok Mark, ship\n\nGodisler, Jarque\n\nAng\n\nEBS Order\n\naly\n\nKing and Co\n\nand Co\n\nSue ship\n\nfang, 9 Stoking sna Co\n\nLaco.\n\n200, Dreyer al Ba\n\nApril\n\n176 Urder\n\nAng. 10385 Kasseli and Co\n\n118 Jardins, and to\n\nNor.\n\nClarita, brig\n\nCora, ship\n\nAvg.\n\nDea.\n\n400 Order\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Hone, que\n\nSian, barque\n\nAug.\n\n430 Order\n\nJuly\n\n32: Order\n\nSpanis\n\n29.\n\nJan. 2 198 W31. Robinet & Co\n\nBan Lorenze, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nJuly 11\n\n220 F. D. Syme and Co\n\n16F. D. Syme and C\n\nTESSEL\n\nAT\n\nFLAG\n\nFubchan British\n\nAcarn\n\nBictor\n\nHhong Scop\n\nAgnes Garland, atque\n\nNor Mady, sing\n\n255,0. L, and Co\n\nCalcutta\n\nAng.\n\n1500. Nathaluoy & Cu\n\nkong Flag Ship\n\n84\n\nMelanie, barqu\n\njau.\n\n18. Heard and\n\nCams\n\n14: Jenkins\n\nNov.\n\n510)Dem and Ca\n\nPantaloon, brig\n\nNev.\n\nSoCamajos and Co\n\nfixcogier\n\nPowai, si\n\nfact.\n\n687ade, M. and Ca\n\n| Mercales\n\nDet. 24] 628A. Heard and Co\n\nH&ret\n\nAng. 20 Gas Gito, L. and Co\n\nMiss\n\nSe Dec.\n\n550 Rassell and Co\n\n31 Bollu\n\n2 Virginie\n\n20 Boulay\n\nB: pr. 600 Curling Bets. bg\n\n107 Makissiek ian.\n\n168 Appon\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nLondoR Smudries Lindsay and Co\n\nTORT Sundries\n\nP. &Ì & N. Co\n\nSmies\n\nAt Hongkong\n\n• British\n\nDate ut! anini\n\nTONS! CONSIUNEES\n\nAlfred the Great, ship\n\nCot. 24 312 Fames Steplanon\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nAulandsle, ship\n\nAeasy, ship\n\nAustralia, ship\n\nAvaca, bargur\n\nJaner, schooner\n\nBanekae, haque\n\nBreshera, Utg\n\nCaldera, ship\n\nCadiz, wamer\n\nCity of Carlisle, ship\n\nClarendon, ship\n\nDeva, ship\n\nPaglub, steamer\n\nBarl Grey, hangne\n\nEena, brig\n\nErin, steamer\n\nEurquie, stip\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nFalco, ship\n\nFous, ship\n\nGlencoe, sp\n\nGood Success, thiş\n\nHoro, abip\n\nJubu Matible, ship\n\nKensington, ship\n\nLady Hayes, barque\n\nLanrick, brig\n\nLord Bagian, ship\n\nLouis, Barque\n\nMaryhull, schooner\n\nMaria Hay, hip\n\nNeure brig\n\nNimrod, ship\n\nPanhua, brig\n\nPerseverance, barque\n\nPrincos Royal, ship\n\nPady Daveon. thip\n\nBamarang, barque\n\nJan. 17 187Gibb, L, and Cu\n\nDec. 7yall, Sail and Co\n\nJan. 1673 Fletcher aud Co\n\nSept. 560 John Bard and Ca\n\nSept. 30 SuRusch and Co\n\nJa, 155ohn Burd and Co\n\nFeb. 14Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 16 2400-der\n\nJan. 820;Under\n\nFeb. 1006P. & O. S. N. C\n\nJau. 15 936 Jardins, M. and Co\n\nFeb. 850 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nJan, 181039 Ruseli and Co\n\nDos. 8 165lemsson and Co\n\nDec. 17 67 Jardine, M.\n\nJan. 26 207 Vaunaice and Co\n\nJua. 850. & G. S. N. C\n\nDec 28 728 Order\n\nNov. 3835 Lyull, Still and Cu\n\nSept. 26 430 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJun. 14 400Order\n\nJau 1784 N. Murray and Co\n\nNay. 5 500Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1| 401| Lindsay and Cə\n\nJou 2 500 Turner and Co\n\nJan. 1a 800Order\n\nGet. 18 318iten. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 282 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17581anline, M. & Co\n\nJan. 11 374Dent and Co\n\nlocs, si 19els. E. Burrows\n\nJan. 31 924 Jardin, M. and Co\n\nDec. 1l 200Order\n\nJan 23 33 Dent and Co\n\nddell\n\n0 14 148o.\n\nHongkong Hamburg\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbis, schoonet\n\nMewor, saip\n\nPerucian\n\nAmireas, brig\n\nAnbitvet, ship\n\nCarmon, barque\n\nCallao, barqué\n\nSantiago, barque\n\nUgarte y Sauiing,\n\nSiamese\n\nNoortol, barque\n\nSan Juan, barque\n\nSiamese Crowa, chip\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpanish\n\nPetua, schooner\n\nBremen\n\nC. Melchers, barque\n\nSoloo, barque\n\nChitian\n\nAlianza, Lurquo\n\nGreyhound. Phip\n\nSaray, enhuoner\n\nNew Granndian\n\n| Anuic. barque\n\nMacao\n\nBritian\n\nRoehampton, ship\n\n1 Date of Town\n\nArrival\n\nDec. 31 W. Postan and Co\n\nNev, 16 aga John Burd and Co\n\nJan. 15 540, Sierunson and Co\n\nHalt and Co\n\nNov. 15 Nov. 12 540 W. M. Robinet& Co\n\nDec. 23 356 J. J. das Henesis\n\nJan. 23248 Wm l'ostau and Co\n\nDec. 193 J. J. des Becicios\n\nSept. 13, 200 Order\n\nNov. 39; 4500ndar\n\nDec. 15 800 Order\n\nAug. 28 250 Order\n\nChico, belg\n\nBuno Ayres, brig\n\nChristiau, brig\n\nFaust, schooner\n\nPavian\n\nRosalia, arque\n\nNov. 37 230 Lyall, Still and Co\n\nNow Era, ship\n\nJan. 24 47NR S. Waller\n\nQel 2 186: John Bard and Co\n\nQueensbury, kip\n\nJan. 23 210Order\n\nNov. 250W. Fustan and Co\n\nD. 22 325 W. Lubinet & Co\n\nJuly 13 907Edward and Balley\n\nPortuguese\n\nEnando Macaense, hire.\n\nMay 251 207 Jose d'Almeida\n\n394. J. das Beridos\n\nMaria Carlota, banque.Tan.\n\nSanyma, barque\n\nTona 21|| 170|§. J. dun Renadioe\n\nSept Tremely, barens\n\n375bindsay and Ca\n\n670 Dont and Co\n\nFraich\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship\n\nOct.\n\nAmerican\n\nHoher Sall, All\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Busiwam, by.\n\nFlyaway, skip\n\nKingsher, ship\n\nMandarin, shin\n\nHamburg\n\nAbardus, barque\n\n250W.M. Robinel & Co\n\n1375|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n126da. Heard and Ce\n\nMay 10 200 Russell and Co\n\nAug. 318&farstine, M. and Co\n\n778A. Jies and Co\n\nRussell and Co\n\nوندی کی\n\n400 Siemsson and Co\n\nSprintma\n\nSanta Leda. Larque\n\nOldeanzung Schlosser, bargue\n\nSept. 3 77W. Pustan and C\n\n550 W. Pustau und Ca\n\nBRITISH SRIPS DE WAR IN CHINA.\n\nCanton Sloop Barratte\n\nHeng P. W. ST.\n\nCloromeda\n\nNankin\n\nNiger\n\nRacehorse\n\nSampeon!\n\nSybille\n\nCanton Sloop\n\nGanton P. W., Str.\n\nCanton Ser. Str.\n\nkong Hospital\n\nCanchor. Str.\n\nH.kong Store Ship\n\nLingue Pigate\n\nCanton Ser Str.\n\nglas Brigato\n\nBubcha Song\n\nAmey P. W. Str.\n\nHogue Priate\n\nט\n\nCOMMANDRA\n\n12 A. W. A. Hood\n\nT. A Furtescue\n\n12 Ticut, Beamish\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n& Douglas 1.W.DO'Callaghan\n\n12\n\nForny fl\n\nJH. T. ER, Master\n\n60 Hon. Keith Stowel\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 Sir S. W. E. Nicolson\n\n14 3. R. Barnard\n\n& G. & Fund\n\n40 Wire. Hon, C. Ellied\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCOMMANDERS\n\nW. T. Bate\n\nG. T. Colville\n\nCa BIGLAND\n\nGolden Racer, ship\n\ni\n\nSamuel Russol, ahip\n\nMay\n\nSarah II. Snow, by.\n\nにし、\n\n420 King and Co\n\nAng. ace! A.A. de Mello & Co\n\nVancouver, ship\n\nJuus\n\n$18 Kussell and Co\n\n$20John Bard and Co\n\n¡SAILED FROM\n\nWedentara, banque\n\nLouisiana, arque\n\nDutch\n\nApril22\n\nNingpo Britian\n\nCornacle, ship\n\n348,W.M. Rebisen&Car, shooner\n\nSolon, banque\n\nArtoon\n\n28 Prigate.\n\nNov.\n\nAerity\n\nH. Kajone\n\n4 Ser. Str.\n\nMar.\n\n632 Dent, Baale and On | Buscaṛd\n\nCWERAD\n\nGun Boat\n\nOct. 25\n\nOct. Oct.\n\n180 kindsay and Co\n\nCamilla\n\n13 Scop\n\nGOJE Bord and Co\n\nCesiser\n\nC. Fellowes\n\nElt\n\nBarcas, brig\n\nLort\n\nDroggrabank, ship\n\nDet.\n\n695 ebaeffer med Do\n\n257. Puslan and Co\n\nWilmingtou, ohuones\n\nFeb.\n\n$6 R and Co\n\nForester\n\nA. J. Lunes\n\nFury\n\nEverdina Elizabeth,bq.\n\nJan.\n\n600 Schaeffer and Co\n\nHaughty\n\nSt. Helena, bug\n\nDee.\n\n1896chauder and Co\n\nLightver\n\nJuflexible\n\nJan. 24 103 James Stephenson\n\nTouis, ship\n\n52:Order\n\nArg\n\n497 J. Bowmen and Co\n\nOposzan\n\nFrow Jolierna, bij.\n\nDet.\n\n530 Beneffer and Co\n\nNo. 28 1247 Darley, W, and 0%\n\nOsprey\n\nHenburg\n\nDec.\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nPlayer\n\nLaum & Louie, by\n\nRase, rig\n\nJau,\n\n248 Dryer and Co\n\nKaleigh\n\nJair 1\n\n1768. Burrowa\n\nNov. 28, 372 Lindsay and Co\n\nBandei\n\nJuly\n\nNar.\n\n7.8 Deb and Co\n\nStarling\n\nJA, J. Villers\n\nSept.\n\n175 Burner and Co\n\nJaas\n\n280 Joan Band and Go\n\nen\n\n100 Holiday, Wis: GÜC\n\n120 121\n\nSept. 15 286 Turner and Co\n\nDec 28 900 Dent and Co\n\nDec. 93 78) Onder\n\nDec. 26 560 Dent and Ca\n\nBir Jamar Broshe, str.\n\nJan 91 73 lecher and Co\n\nSpeedy, ship\n\nSpirit of the North, eh.\n\nNov, 11 67, L. and Co\n\nSollane, barque\n\nTruro, ship\n\nUnicoro, simmer\n\nVizzinie skip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWegsoia, stip\n\nOct. 1 588ebatfer and C\n\nJan. 2469rder\n\nAug. 16 786 Taos. Hunt and Co\n\nJaur 18 830yal, Su, and Co\n\nNov. 143ardine, M. & Co\n\n¡Dee. 24 549 Illiday, Wise&Co\n\nWater Witch, harque\n\nJan. 15) 958). Laprak WP.. Nii\n\nWiki Wave, selvoner\n\nJan. 24. 200/Jardine, M. & Co\n\njosemary -\n\nZepliyi, chonne\n\nFrench\n\nEtaile, Ba\n\nInitia, barque\n\nMansur, Lip\n\nMount Riant, ship\n\nSaceos. ship\n\nJan. 3, 118 Dent and Co\n\nJa 21 389korder\n\nJan. 10j 545;Deas and Co\n\nDec. 26 617ent and Ca\n\n¡Nov. 2) 414jOrder\n\nWillemins, brig\n\n1'/\n\nGimeneze, ship\n\nمشهدال\n\n224 Schacter anti Co\n\net. 15 600 Order\n\nA MEDICAR\n\nShanghae\n\nBritish\n\nAlbert Bowd, ship\n\nAliquis, sp\n\nAlchymies, ship\n\nArrow ship\n\nAngrata, alip\n\nBailarat, li\n\nChallenger, Earque\n\nMara Nativaladept 28 010 M. Rolanes & Co\n\nChieftain, arc\n\nEast Coast\n\nArn, stomer\n\nVille de Dieppe, barqueFan. 2014)yali, St and Co\n\nproste, abip\n\nAmercom\n\nAutonita. schooner\n\nAntelope, steder\n\nBarham, arque\n\nCarben, schooner\n\nChampion, ship\n\nDee. 1134rder\n\nJan. 24 200 iussell and Co\n\nOct 28 248 W. Pustau and Co\n\nDen 26 200. Girly\n\nFeb.\n\n360 Order\n\nC. W. Bradley, Jr., bc, Oct. 9 218A. Heard and Co\n\nDom Quixoto, ekip\n\nDement, ship\n\nFaruka, ship\n\nFrancis P. age, ship\n\nGarland, schooter\n\nHolen Mar, barque\n\nJames Maishail, brig\n\nJ. Godfrey, barque\n\nHate Hooper, shig\n\n2438 King and Co\n\nBan. 18 4003. fleard and Co\n\nNov. 5100, Heard and Co\n\nNov. 12115Jardine, 1. & Co\n\nJan. 15 118s. E. Burrows\n\nDec. 26 saalonder\n\nAnek tan, argue\n\nPorly, ship\n\n16% Robers S. Walker\n\n115andine, M. and\n\nConfums Ship\n\nCrystal Palace, eng\n\nElisse, barqu\n\nBizabeth, brig\n\nFazil Curria, barque\n\nForrtev.sip\n\nCots, ship\n\n537 Curlewine and Co\n\n140Jardins, M. & C\n\nDe 12 25 Birley, W. and Ca\n\nJane 15, 566 per and Co\n\nJan.\n\n207 Viliam P. and Cu\n\n8spt, in 20 Jarding, B. and Co\n\nMay 30 802 Tait and Co\n\nJ.F.C.Hamilton 12 Sicop\n\nC. T. Tudītie\n\nEL V Tamilcar\n\nSer. Str. Sept. 25\n\nFout Sept. 25\n\nKiun Boat Sept. 25\n\nGF.A.Shadwel 21 Scr. St.\n\nST. Corbett\n\nP. W. Str. Oct. 23.\n\n2. A. Campbell Bat\n\n54. 3. m.ield. S.\n\nKeith Stewart. Go Bast\n\nHou. R.Keppel 50 Trigate\n\nNov. 'Willmau\n\nBoat Sep, 25 ina Boot Oct. 25\n\nFOREJON SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA\n\ndid\n\nAT\n\nFisc.\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\n805. 839W.1. Warley &Co\n\nCatinat\n\nSur Are\n\nVirginin\n\nLevent\n\nPortsmouth\n\nJau 16 BJ, Kouper\n\nAug.\n\nGuzole, schooner\n\nQuetonio, bargco\n\nGeralWindham, slap\n\nDo Guinare, ship\n\nHeltespant, 6tomer\n\nIndia, barque\n\nBeta Hip\n\nW.M. Rubinel&Ross\n\nKate Carnie, Ali\n\nKelso, ship\n\nLaviermuir, ekip\n\n11 382 Giinue, B. and Co\n\nGsa Lyall, Stink and Co\n\nJuny 2002 graves and Co\n\n336 Jardine, M, and Co\n\nJau Sept. 15 53 Den, Brule & Co\n\nI. 21 020, Birley, W. and Co\n\nDee. 27560 Galien Co\n\nJou. 75%y Lindsay and Co\n\nSept. 26 952 as, Bowman Co\n\nLuly A. Dort barque\n\nNov. 8 870s. Koney and Cul\n\nLady Mary Wood, str.\n\nLammermuir, ship\n\nLouisa Baltic, ship\n\nMary Wieuheit, sp\n\nDee. 563 P. & 4. S. N. OS\n\nJan Bourns and Co\n\nAng. 24, 494 Gilman, B and\n\n1205 Jarine, M. Co\n\n780 and Ca\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nlungkung. Su. Houghong Fr. Frig.\n\nDangkong U. S. SL\n\nShangbae 17. S. Sh.\n\nR.-A. Gner in 50 Capt. Plas 18 St\n\nJC Fote\n\n(bars, Amtree. A\n\n{ Capt. Beli\n\ntea\n\nHongkong U. S. Str.\n\nFort Brig\n\n20 Cam. Tayfres\n\n21 (0) Daterin\n\nMuiden\n\nSulpicc\n\ndc.\n\nAlaxants\n\nPorthorea Prameel\n\n8. Rer Sp. Bg.\n\nHangkong Peru. Str.\n\n4 Briar.g\n\n14 Doran\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nBritish\n\nJeliz\n\nChin Chin, arque\n\n310,Camajeu and\n\nBanons, schooner\n\nJa\n\n121 Dens zod Co\n\nJan. 21 56sell and Cu\n\nGaver achooner\n\nApril\n\nHart, schooner\n\nFly\n\n4 Y. J. Marrow\n\nHelen, brig\n\nJan\n\n130 Turtar and Co\n\nJuns\n\nMalac, urque\n\nAng\n\n869 lewitz and Co\n\nBlaze pjs, schooner\n\nu.\n\nBear, arhooner\n\nJuly\n\nTriopho, schooner\n\n200 D. Laprik\n\nFrench\n\nAnais, ship\n\nNov.\n\n632 Lyait, Stilt and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJac.\n\n304W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nJaly\n\n1068 A. Huurd neu Co\n\nProgressive Age, rig\n\nNov.\n\n296 A. card and Co\n\nKugleader, shi\n\nMay\n\n1:56 A, Koard and Co\n\nSadie Peaza, ship\n\nSep\n\n875 Bonac Cad Os\n\nWitch, barone\n\nCe\n\n| 4100rder\n\nJan.\n\n100 Scbacter and Co\n\nferiests Marie, gee..\n\n581 Sebaffer and Co\n\nJuly\n\nJane\n\n700, F-W. Lawresno\n\ntopur\n\niwan\n\nNov.\n\nJameson\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\n►\n\nWicusy\n\nSailtea\n\n126 Siemsson anal Co\n\nGerard\n\nDent & Co.\n\nFune\n\n218 John Bund and Co\n\nJord Ambers Anany\n\nBrown\n\nDent & C\n\nJav.\n\n202 Turner and Co\n\nPatlirler\n\n14M\n\nJa\n\n025 W. Pieter and Co\n\nHarleggin\n\nClutches Fitgibbon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Út\n\nTera\n\nParti\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDec.\n\nBremen\n\nBertha, arque\n\nSept\n\n40W, Pastau anil Os\n\nsir E. Aberamby, sb.Man.\n\nya Tamer od Os\n\nMahanolic Tubeca worl\n\nWuter Witch\n\nFalix, barne\n\nClitian\n\nJaz,\n\nJame\n\nKod Lyal, ul auá Ca\n\nVenilia, ship\n\nThen\n\nGaming, M. and Co\n\nHinly\n\nDent & Co.\n\nAnn Woleh\n\nWeorang\n\naircott\n\nA\n\n1. Icare & Co.\n\nVudex, schooner\n\nMa\n\nFully Jane\n\nKing\n\nFulkste\n\nBaylis\n\n478say and Co\n\nNimrod\n\nCobb\n\ni. S. Sons & Co.\n\nSea Horaé\n\nKeppel\n\nP. F. Curas & Ca\n\nHenderson Lindsay Co\n\nMan. 10 13. E Barrows\n\nNev. 18 456Y. J. Murrow\n\nDec. 1488Js. Stephenson\n\nMary Whitidge, chip\n\nNov. 27 07 Russell and Co\n\nMeteor, ship\n\nMins, schooner\n\nMiu, steamer\n\nMosaur ship\n\nNorth Wind, ahip\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nJan. 20088ja. Heard and Co\n\nMar 300rder\n\nJan. 14; 130 Russell and Co\n\nJuno 28 50Thorens Hunt &Co\n\nOct, 21041as Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1100 Rossc aud Co\n\nQueen of Be Res, ship! Dec. 170350 all and Co\n\nBachand\n\nRescate, ship\n\nSimon Dumper, kali.\n\nSpotaran, ship\n\nStar King,\n\np\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYeang America, slip\n\nDutch\n\nAlmonde, Tarque\n\nAnna Justina, ahty\n\nAhna Elizabeth, iq.\n\nChristina, bargne\n\nAug. 25 5303. E. Burrows\n\nSupt. 251 SUGRasseti and Ca\n\nJan. 26 20. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 2u1 826Order\n\nDoa, 11176 Order\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\n8pt 202000). Iesed and Co\n\nDat. 19 600w. Postau and Co\n\nJas. 13 550 Schaeffer a d Co\n\nJan. 161iemisen und Co\n\nNov. 26 648 Schander and Co\n\nGeneral de Stucs, by.\n\nJan. 2 79Order\n\nHollar Astrow, haupe\n\nSept. 79, Schacter and Co\n\nJaenh Cats, banque\n\nOct. 22 800Saborifer and Co\n\nJacoba Coracia, hq.\n\nKlazina, barque\n\nOosterling, legra\n\nFeb. 140Britaefer and Co\n\nJan. 17 Schactor and Co\n\nDec. 15 53 Var der Haven\n\nP. von Baren, barque\n\nFan, 14; 250W. Pastau and Co\n\nProvenz, barque\n\nBegins, barqa\n\nDazisk\n\nHercules, brig\n\nHelena, barque\n\nJan 18 19 Schaster and Co\n\nJan. 173 W. Fustan and Co\n\nMay 1 2siemsson and Co\n\nUan. 91 e Win.Plan and Co\n\nDutch\n\nDiana, submer\n\nPogosophyr, bq.\n\nVienesha, ship\n\nDanish\n\nBaldar, schooner\n\nLoots\n\ne, schooner\n\nHumbury\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig.\n\nDet\n\nLisa, barque\n\nMcibido, ig\n\nSiusness\n\nParagon, ship\n\nFrolic, actuoner\n\nSwatow British\n\nChina, ship\n\nFazel Carram, barque\n\nJune\n\nNama, schooner\n\nAug.\n\nAmoy\n\nBradish\n\nAbbotsford, barque\n\nAun Kay, rehvoner\n\nAs F. W. Lawrenceklo\n\n4. Puatau and Co\n\nW. Pustau anu Ca\n\n708|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n!April\n\n80gOrder\n\n250 Order\n\n1, Lapraik\n\n! \n\nNov.\n\nApra\n\nAutoinette, barque\n\nSept.\n\n430E. D. Syme and Co 121 Tait and s\n\nBlack River Facket, be\n\nApril 19 25:Order\n\nConfucius, ship\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nCaluchow, ellip\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nSept\n\n21Sebaftor and Co\n\n51allay, Wine &Ca!\n\nNapoleon II, sip\n\nNia, schooner\n\nNie, ship\n\nNightingale, ship\n\nPaculise, varque\n\nFabr.gra, barque\n\nPeba, banque\n\nPiuto, alcamer\n\nIve.\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Bard and Lo\n\nDee.\n\n70s fling. 1. und Lu\n\nDec. 16 Juzeline. M, and Ce\n\nVESSEL.\n\nAr\n\nCAPTALS.\n\nJuly 320, Wet more and to\n\nNov. 28 705 Captam\n\nJan 11 1890. C. Schmuva\n\nJune 41st, 3a and Co\n\nPrinces Koyal, chipet.\n\nPruth. sip\n\nRemi, stoster\n\nRutin, brig\n\nLal Still\n\nJan. 12 A8Limisty and Co\n\nJAS\n\nJail.\n\nSual Lucy, sequely 10\n\nSauel Stosur, bg.\n\nSept. 11 Salvetin ship\n\nSir James, bargue\n\nWhampoa, lurque\n\nWild Flower, slip\n\nFrench\n\nCanton, saip\n\n322 N. Dogs and Ca\n\nOWALKE\n\nHart Willia. Longkong MDerant ||F. & C. 8. N. Co.\n\nJofon Adria\n\nGama Family\n\nCooray\n\nJa Wa. Posh and Co\n\n45 Water and Co\n\n42rpent, Banky and Ce\n\n647 Lindsay awi Osi\n\n179 Dent and Co\n\nSept. 10 375mler\n\nDea.\n\nDec. 638 Dent and Co\n\nKopanál\n\nAnteyeca\n\nHongkong\n\nSwailow\n\nD. S. Sens & Cu\n\nP. H. Cha & Co.\n\nEusseit & Co.\n\nJuri, M. & Co.\n\nJardine, M. & Ca „Jardine, M. & Linke\n\nDem, Beale & Co.\n\nJarding, M. & Coi\n\nTERMS OF SUKSCRIPTION to the HONOKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT:-For One Year, 829, Six Mouths, $19. Three Manthe, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER-For One Year, $15; Six Montuz, $9; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRIOD CURRENT slone-Por One Year, $8; all payable in advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER —Advertisements, not exceeding i lines,\n\neach insociic. $1, each additional line 20 cearts; van halt of these charges for Repetitica AGENTS for the DONGKONG REGISTER S OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTIO, Paq, Lomion; Mesars. JARDIN, SKIN & Co., Calcutta; Marrs. Emisoras à. Co. Bourbag; W. S. Danska, Esq., Singapors; Mesary, TAXON, Researy & Co., Batavia; J. P. PE, Esq. San Francisco.\n\n76 Jawline, M. and Colltel, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACILAN, at the Hongkong Register Offer: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkang. Tuesday, February 3, 1857.\n\n76,P. D. Syme and Ca\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 6.\n\nENTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1867.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHERRAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. MR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our\n\nWHERE the Futva the 11th day of March.\n\n1866, at the fine of the UvITAL STATES' CONSULATK in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in frust for the benefit of their Ureditore, to the undersigned: We bestby giva potica to all voneer el to make payment to ma of all sums due to, and lo present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co. JAMES FURDON & Co. Canton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n-\n\nPum.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTH\n\nHE undoraigned has this day established himself at\n\nMac, as 3 Berchant, and General Agent\n\nà. 1. §. na CASTRO,\n\nMac, 1st January, 1857,\n\nNOTICE\n\nInstant\n\nAssignment of the property, real and personal, of. A. A. Du MELIO JE, in authorized to sign the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Chatou, Too- name of our Piru per procuration frost the chow, and Shanghuse, Chiux, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the\n\nA A, D MELLO & Co. beatit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, 1 horeby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of sii sume due to, kand\n\nclaims against, the said Firm. to prescut to m\n\nCantan, 7th August, 1856.\n\nOLIVER IL PERRY.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBeamen's Hospital. Trustees. Jostra farming, faq., C. D. WILLIS, Esq. Hon. W. T. Mesca, Esq., R.S. WALLER, E Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Coa pany. (ex oficio.j\n\nTrauren-d. Maantaa, Esq.\n\nBriuent burgeon-Renard G. JACK. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.]).\n\n*\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION, Paltic Warda,****\n\n75 cents per day, fazermediate Wards...\n\ndollar .. 1 Private Recal\n\ndollars Pasicuts are also admitted on deposita, atthe following rates, renewable one day previous to the amountdeposited having been expended.\"\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$ 20 $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignces of Veale uetbe respon. sible for the express of Palents sent by them luke\n\nHas itzi.\n\nAll Hospital Billa to be receipted by the Treasurer vuly.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE.\n\n[HE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port To the undersigned Busier the style of WILLIAMS, ANTION & CO. expiter the day by lapse of time sud mutual consent, the outstanding ass cants will te verde by either Partner, sad a stricy Agency and Commission business will be conducted by Et us Partners at the Port of Singapore antier the stylo of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & CA\n\nJagkong, 1st September, 1836.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nB. ANTHON, J G. HASKELL\n\nM. THOMAS WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong. NOTICE\n\nOTICE 16 hereby given that our busiest in Shang- lae, will be cuudneted in future under us Sty víúlublAN & Evil Cautun sad uv-chow.\n\nGILNAN, BOWMAN & Co. Shungbae, 26th August, köbó,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE undercly and have perished & their buss Store Keepers, Ship\n\nMacas, 3d January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nINSURANCE S.\n\nNOTICH.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1790, THE ́undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Carporation, are prepared to great PULICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, ou any Buthling or on Merchandize to the star,\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1955.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY\n\nOF LONDON,\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nNOTIC\n\nNo. 1,365\n\nTHE undersigned have taken out az AUCTIONEER'S 1 LICENSE, and heg to uder their sarvkes to thu Public.in that Capacity,\n\nTROL HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 181J.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION. THE Rev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies 1 for the Admission into in jimsig of the chüdren of such FORRION Xstrants at the Mec Porta, who may\n\nPHE Undersigned having been appointed Aczstain be desirous of securing for them the Conforte of s\n\nFor Terms and Particulats apply at\n\nNo. Gough Street, Vicronka, Hongreso.\n\nNOTICE,\n\nTHE LIBRARY THE MORRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY,\n\ntheatre CAIXA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to HOME, sad the Advantage of a LIBERAL EDUCA\n\nrept ASSURANCES Hengcag, as ander\n\n1st. On Buildings of Brick ne Stone, covered with Tiles, Blaces, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contenta, when such Buildings ors isolated from all othera,-Rate of Premium, i per cont per Aman.\n\nd. On sanh Buildings and their Contents, when not lealated, cut the Mats of 1 per cent per Axaum, the Su ieslated, as the Mots of per cent per Annum Annut liate will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Asrances, for the prescut, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 24 Glass.→To the extent of £9,000. A Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building zione, or the Coutents alone; or, fart ou the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMOND\n\nNEWMAN Sow in our Firm ceased on 31st Decem ber last. Our Piria now consists of WITAM WALKIN SHAW, WILLIAM Hursos, Joan SCARTO, and ROBERT Ранкетка Іновий ко\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1867.\n\nHOUSER\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned having erected a spacious GO\n\nspring prepared to recclys ou Storage, Quods of all deereiptions which may act interfere with Insurans against fire. The charge for Storage of Loeros will be 10 cents per Bale per oath, and for Rice, Sus and hor Dead weight 3 cents per picut for the brai, and 2 cents per piest for the second and subazqnent months. The Rater for older Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALI, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1550.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid,\n\nAmongst other advantager of the Company, the Ax Aared will be entitled to participate in the Ï'rolite after Fivo sucucasive payments.\n\nHoney, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock .x.. to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books, Paris, not bombers of the Society, may jotain the savantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Truziles,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary,\n\nÀ DESORIPTION OF EXGLINE PAL-On the Englich\n\nface are combined decision and nerve, with the fair\n\nThe fair Saxon\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sund in full particulare of the Blak to be taken; nay Deviation | complexion, blue eyes, and open and florid expret, from which without the consent of the Company, will; Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine vitiate che l'olicy.\n\nperception, and portie construction. Dian, with open front and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, ve inquisitor, or assassin is mede, but he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the pucture of child- zen, for calleges, churchsea, chariiles, and rolouies. They nre rather manly then warlike. When the war over,\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, 1st January, 1875- ERLIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY,\n\nundersigned Eaving\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nBIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. FOR SALE.\n\nIlongkong, 26th April, 1950. BEST English STAR CUAL\n\nApply to\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Hongkong, 7th April, 1350.\n\n(Established in 1845.) FOR SALE.\n\nTHE Underzigned are prepared to accept RISES HAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PA (covered by protecting POLICIES at Lotos and the various lour Insurance CoPANIES,) by the PEN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Cus tos and dongkong, wo Amoy, Shanghue, tie Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and Estund. The interest in the protecting Policies is assigned the P. and G. S. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Playmont in this event of Loss. For LATE PREW.CM and cherinformation, apply to\n\nRKS. WALKER, Hongkong. MAXIMILIAN P1son, Canton.\n\nand bluL SHERRIES\n\nLYALL, STILL & Ù». \n\nA fow Cones FRENCH CORKS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nN Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL\n\nSHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE,\n\nApply to\n\n1YALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALP INVIOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, LANDING WHARF, &c. Ettached, at present in\n\n& Co, id iuxt\n\nflore, ed un part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulare apply to\n\n, at fiongkong, which will be carried on the pre- uises Intely occupied by Mr. W. Scort, ruder the to- agement af ár. . . Exuicers, who is authorised 20\n\nigor the saingkong Branch,\n\nTua HUNTE Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1854\n\nNOTICE\n\nInterest and Resperabity of Mn, ABRAHAM BOWMAN in our Firm, oth hire si at konchow, Lo Sith June susi.\n\n11.MAN & Co.\n\nCanton, Shib August, 1850,\n\nNOTICE\n\nAFR. REGINALD PADDAY was admitted a Part\n\nHAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 24 Sep, 1556.\n\nMR. was admitted\n\nW\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have this day established at Hongkong under\n\nthe scan style a branch of our Canon\n\nVAUCHER FRERES, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nBains herewere carried on under the Fire of Kwa & Japan, will, fron mud alive this date, ve Conducted by Mr. Mos Moses and Ale LEL J. ANKARA, under the designation of JobsH & Ly waerein Mr. Zum JUDA alcutta is the Senior Purtatt.\n\nEZRA & JUDAH.\n\nHongkong, It\n\n1867.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WuJA, DE Firma of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Ca, of China, and T. A. 118 Co., of Loudon, terminated on the auth Jure 1865.\n\nngay, 26th December, 1850.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWILLIAM PROBST in this day admitted a\n\nM Partner in our Ficus in libing, which Mr. Jenave\n\nER is authorised to sign per procuration, while Alt. WH. HOLLMAN size the firm of February that has dis\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co.\n\neuntinued to net for u\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 2857. NOTICE\n\nM\n\n2. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Office, wil siga my name from this lare per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN, \"longkeng Register\" Office, 1st January, 1867.\n\nTHOMAS L. WALKER Estate and ifcus Agent, Queen's Rouch\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\n\"MALTA,\"\n\nYork & Canberland HAMS. P CHEESE.\n\nBreakfast BACON, Bach CHOPS, &c., &c.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nE. WAXDOS, Rhengåre,\n\nH. T, Marshall, Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love Cricutta.\n\nThe dog ind lays been appointed Aunts for the ransk falls from the affectionate ant to westic tantes, POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, which makes them women in kindness. This union of HANGGON, PERANG, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nqualities is fabled in their national legend of “Beauty and the Beast,\" yr, long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite. \"The two sexes are co-prezent in the English wind. I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine: \"ake la as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.\" The English delight in the un- taganden which comhlars in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness. Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood, and, like an inco- eent schoolboy that goes to bed, says, \"Kiss me Hardy,\" und turns to sleep. Lord Collingwood, his comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic. Admiral Rudney's figure approached to delicacy med effeminary, and he declared himself very sensible to fen, which he surmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. Clarradan says, the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some com tiers altempted to put effrouts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a wark for the most terrible determination. And Sir James Perry said, the other day, of Sir Joha Franklin, that, \"If he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a Mon- quito,\" Even for tusir highway men the same virtues is elclmued, and Robin Hued tomes described to us an altissimus prædimum, the gentlest thief. But they know where their war.dogs le Crowell, Blake, Maribo- rough, Chatham, Nelson, and Wellington are not to be trified with, and the brutal strength which lies of the hottem of society, the animal ferocity of the quays and Cockpits, the builies of the costernongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials, and Spitalfields, they know how to wake up. They have a vigorous health, and inst well into middle and old age. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome, & clear skin, a peschi bloom com- plexion, and good teeth, are found all over the island, They are a plentiful and maritious diet. The operative cannot rabist on waberevesICA. Beef mutton, #best- bread, and malt liquors, are universal among the first- claus laboureTA. Good feeding is a chief point of na- tional price among the raiger, sad, in their carlemmer, they represent the Preschman as a poor starved body, It in curiose that 'Tacitus found the English beer already i use ang the Germans: they make from barley or whest s drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.\" Lord Chief Justice Purlesque, in Henry VI.'s time, sayu * The Inhabitants of England drink no water, valens at certain fizuen, on a religions score, and by way of pen. acer.\" The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it\n\nROBERT FRANCu, Mudras, ot Joas ROBIE. Bumbay.\n\nLondon, Sih January, 1854. NOTICE. THE umlonsigued, having been appointed Agenta for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, we ready to issue alicice En behalf of that Oleo, payable in BINGAPORE, CRAN, PANGDON, CALCUTTA, BOY, UN, din Cara\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Ca. Canton, 930 January, 1856. \"COMMITTEE OF MAKÍTIME INSURANCE, OF PARIS.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nL\n\nHE Undersigned, having been appointed Acerra for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are aathor ized to examine and approva Clarins for General azú Particu Averages on ikka musured by them.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co. Hongkong, 27th December, 1816.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS. ES Somsignés ayant été nommé Agents des Reunions FOR SALE.\n\nArreurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Asure- YUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cunts runces Maritimes, de Paris sent authorisa, pour eumi\n\nof 1, 2, & 3, Dozen each; niso CHAMPAGNE in 3 ner et constater des réclames d'avarica partientiéres et\n\ncommunes sur des risques assurés par eux, dozen Cuses. BEER in Casca of 3 & 4 dosen each, at East Point Godenas.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1956.\n\nNOTICE. THE undersignal having been appointed Aoser to\n\nOrricks in Rotterňom, a 1st of which may be seen in his one, requesra application to made to kim da ense of any particular or general Averages un rlake in eured by them.\n\nALEX, WILSON,\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE Tax HOUSES known as Bagwiese.\n\nFor further particulara, apply to\n\n10\n\nRongkong, 27th December, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nm board the Screw Steamer \"Lubus,\"\n\nat Whamp\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each foot 2 inches\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nThe majority of UDARWINTERS SIG INTUSANDS\n\nHongkong, lal January, 1857.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nPOSTOFFICE NOTICE.\n\nwould seen, never reach cold water in England. Wood, the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jeruit, dues not deny him heer. He says, \"his bed was under s thateng, and the way to it up a ladder; his faze was coarse? his They have more drink, of a penny a pawn, or gallon,\"\n\nThey constitutional nurgy than any other people.\n\nthink, with bat manly excercises are the\n\nfomation of that elevation of sind which gives one\n\nnature ascendant over another; ar with the Arabs, that the disys spent in the chase are not counted is the length of life. They hot, run, shoot, ride, row, and sait from pinle to pole. Toey eat, and drick, and live jolly in the open ale, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day-English Traits.\n\nPORGIA PREACHtaq.--The Furkaru, niter noticing the Freemasons' friend, and making some creellent re- marks, in which I quite cuntur, regarding “popular\n\nin length, and feet 4 inthase of a work Engin, a HE Acting Post-Master regrets sa way that owing to prenehno leping of Church, an epigram pointed\n\nthe departure of the carriers from Hong- tong, there can be no delivery for the present of Leiteir &c., hat how the Peat-Office window. Hours of stren- dance being as heretofore frora 7 oʻtlock, a.a. to li PAN,\n\nPosten, Hongkong,\n\n12th January, 18s.\n\nsufficiently apacions to Engtuan of from One Hundred and fronty to One Hundred and Thirty Hons Pow. Bach Boiler ha 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Six-en Monthe in the Vessel, and not having been used morg than Six Weeks during the whole of that time\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, wish\n\nSAN MIGUEL KRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. CYLINDER capable of worklog up to Ten Forsy Power, fitted with Pamp of 7 fucher diameter, and YNDER the Superintendance of an Experienusi Ex- Buroke of Piston Rod fi inches, for pumping out Water GINEER. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY Ballart, throwing with cas 20 Tons per hour. Also executest with despatch. Speak ENGINES & BOILERS Cast Iron Baskets with Cod Waaris, for Londing or repaired. SHAFTS of the bees English Iron from 5 to Dinolwaging Cargo.\n\n9 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Moser B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Media,\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBU. LAR BOILER for Huginu. standing & fost 9 inches high, diameter & fest 7 inches.\n\nThe whale in first-rate working order.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th Cetuler, 1855.\n\nWING to the existing condition of affairs at Chator, D. KENNY han ravnoved to Hongkong; and may be consulted his Rive, cormir of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nlingkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\naway's article on\n\nwith a good joke of the witty South, the Editor aught to have a return in kind, I offer the following an illustration of the disgusting length to which preachers who strive after effect, can go. The anecdote is taken from severe criticism, writing in England, of the Rev. J, C. M. Bellew's volunie of Sermon preached at St. Philip's, Regent Street. Allading to Mr. Spurgeon, the \"gated dissenting prenslier,\" the critic of the Saturday Review says:—\n\nThat shining light of the Non-conformist world lately discoursed of the last days and death of Williaur Palmer, and be described the devil na trembling between hope aul fear--now reading that Pairer would confers and balk him, and presently confident that he would remain ohdurate. The preaches wout an ine on himself to per souity Satan; and, rubbing his hands in a flow of ex- citement and delight, he shoutot, a the game in the prison cell was closing, \"here he comes! here he comes! here he comes --Bengal Hurlar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241825, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette. [No. 85.-FEBRUARY 14, 1857.\n\nTHE next GENERAL MAILS for BOMBAY, EUROPE, &c., per Steamer “CADIZ” will close on SATURDAY, the 14th instant, at 6 o'clock, P.M. The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up the following morning from 8 to 10 o'clock A.M., for a late fee 6d.; and from 10 till noon, for a late fee of 1s. After which no Letters can be received.\n\nWM. CHAPMAN,\n\nActing Post-Master,\n\nPost-Office, Victoria, Hongkong,\n\n4th February, 1857.\n\nSteam for\n\nSINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,\n\n& SOUTHAMPTON;\n\nAlso,\n\nBOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA, THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIT is hereby notified, that Applications to fill the OFFICE OF DANISH CONSUL at Foo-chow foo, by Resident Merchants of that place, will be received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Copenhagen, until the end of April Next,\n\nBy Order,\n\nFRED. H. BLOCK,\n\nH. B. M. Consul.\n\nDanish Consulate, Hongkong, 7th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE have this day entered into Partnership as GENERAL MERCHANTS and COMMISSION AGENTS under the Firm of DAVIS & LAWRENCE, which will merge the Affairs of Messrs F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.\n\nHENRY DAVIS.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE,\n\nHongkong, 7th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE\n\nCopy of the JURY LIST for 1857 is posted.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Pakchan, and Mr ROBERT N. WESTALL is authorized to sign our Firm at that Port by procuration.\n\nSMITH, KENNEDY & Co.\n\nShanghac, 19th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nPARTIES forwarding to this office, in pursuance of the intimation of HER MAJESTY'S PLENIPOTENTIARY to the BRITISH COMMUNITY OF CANTON, under date the 8th ultimo, particulars of CLAIMS for LOSSES recently sustained by them at that Port, are informed by the undersigned that these Statements should be furnished them in Duplicate.\n\nHARRY S. PARKES,\n\nConsul.\n\nOffice of the British Consulate for Canton, Hongkong, 6th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nHENRY EUSTACE TALBOT is authorized to sign for the COMPANY'S Steam-ship “CADIZ”.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe P. & O. COMPANY'S Steam-ship “CADIZ”, Captain ... , will leave this for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, and SOUTHAMPTON, on SUNDAY, the 15th instant, at 2 P.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on-board until 5 P.M. on the 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th; and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and Passage, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 12 February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE\n\nNotice of any inaccuracies, Omissions, &c., must be given IN WRITING to the Registrar on or before the Twenty-first day of February instant, in accordance with the Provisions of Section 3 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1851.\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nRegistrar.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe Interest and Responsibility of Mr EDMUND THE KENNEDY SNOW in our Firm, ceased on 31st December last.\n\nOur Firm now consists of WILLIAM WALKINSHAW, JOHN SCAUTH, and ROBERT FORRESTER THORBURN.\n\nTURNER & Co,\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nI hereby give notice, that the Co-partnership heretofore existing between us under the firm of ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent.\n\nW. LAWRENCE\n\nwill settle all Business connected therewith.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 5th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE\n\nAn Assignment of the Property, Real and Personal, of the Firm of WITMORE & Co. of CANTON, FOOCHOW, and SHANGHAI, CHINA, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton : I hereby give notice to all concerned to make payment to me of all sums due to, and to present to me any Claims against, the said Firm.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY.\n\nCanton, 7th August, 1856.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nIn Equity.\n\nAccounts of the late Firm will be liquidated by F. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nJ. M. ARMSTRONG.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE,\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing at this Port, between the undersigned, under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co., expires this day by lapse of time and mutual consent.\n\nThe outstanding Accounts will be settled by either Partner; and strictly AGENCY & COMMISSION BUSINESS will be conducted by them as Partners at the PORT OF SINGAPORE under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nH. ANTHON,\n\nJ. G. L. HASKELL.\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th February, 1857.\n\nTO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that Persons willing to CONTRACT for the EXECUTION OF THE SEVERAL WORKS—in constructing a New SEA WALL, from Marine Lot No. 104 Eastward, to join the Coast Road along the Parade, and Westward, from Marine Lot No. 101 to join the Sea Wall of Pedder's Wharf; in forming the NEW STRAND ROAD; and in Filling in the Ground between such New Road and the present Sea-front of the Several Marine Lots; and in continuing the several Culverts and Drains, &c., may inspect the DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, and CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT at this Office, on and after Monday, the 16th instant, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.\n\nTHOS. S. WALKER,\n\nActing Surveyor General.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\nSTEPHENSON v. MERCHOW.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED, that all Monies, now or henceforth to become payable to the late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his Deputy, he having been lawfully appointed Receiver in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honourable Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST EDGER being alone good discharges for such monies.\n\nDated the 13th day of November, 1856.\n\nGASKELL & BROWN,\n\nComplainants' Solicitors.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAt the Office of the “China Mail.”\n\nTABLE, showing the COST OF TEA, with all CHARGES on Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.- PRICE, $12 per Annum; Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One-half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 7166\n\n...\n\nPage ...\n\nExecutive Council\n\n...\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria\n\n...\n\nREGISTERED\n\nAUG. 3 1857\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242321, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE\n### VOL. XVI No 59. VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 25th 1857. PRICE $1 per annuta\n\n\" issues of \" the libel, of your paper to aggravate gross as ous as it was at these commencements by publishing garbled statements of \"False and This evidence and of the proceedings in generale \"The sentence of the \" is that you pay a fine of the hundred pounds to the *(0) Lucer and that be umprisoned till it be paid?? \n\nLudo is then substance of lies repps Lordships Scaur rewards as early give than Shave, te, \n\n(Signed) Henry Kingsmill \nActivly Attorney Jounal. \n\n(True Copy) \nActing Colonial Secretary \n30100149/57\n\n## SUBSCRIPTION\nA paper called the Overland Friend of China is also published for every opportunity. \nSUBSCRIPTION: per Annum. Sixteen Dollars payable in advance quarterly or otherwise at option. Single Numbers. 25 cents. \nFor sending to Europe by staru Louversrce the terms of Subscription to which are to Subscribers to this paper. Four Dollars per half year - To Non Subscribers £1 - payable in advance or otherwise at option. \nThe Overland Friend of China contains a reprint of the most important intelligence of the previous week, weeks, or month, and summary completed to the latest possible moment. Forwarded via Southampton the postage of one penny is compulsorily payable in advance here; and via Marseilles the postage of three pence is payable by the party receiving.\n\n## TRIESTE ROUTE\nTHE AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAMERS ply regularly between Alexandria and Trieste, corresponding with the monthly and by monthly Indian Steamers. \nThe rates have been reduced and the following rates have been fixed, viz., - \n| Class | Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Class | £16 |\n| 2nd Class | £11 |\n| 3rd Class | £7 |\n\nincluding Table money and fees. \nArrangements have been entered into between the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Company and the Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Company, that, \n- PASSENGERS intending to proceed from China via Trieste, can receive Tickets from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents for Alexandria. \n- PASSENGERS Baggage can be shipped from Alexandria by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers for Southampton, the Freight being Ten Shillings Sterling per Cwt. \n- Receipts for Cargo and Specie intended for Shipment to Trieste, will be granted by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents to Alexandria, instead of to Suez as formerly, but each Package is to be provided with a white label, on which is distinctly marked in print: \"In Transit for the AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAMER.\" \nFor further particulars apply to W. PUSTAU & Co., Agents in Hongkong and Canton. Hongkong, 1st July, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE\nGREAT FACILITIES have lately been granted by the Austrian Authorities with regard to the passport system of travellers using through the Austrian Dominions, and consequently the passports of English travellers retiring from India or China via Trieste to London, which are obtainable at the Office of the British Consulate at departure, are only required to be exhibited and vised by the Police Office at Trieste and at Bolzano in passing the Austrian Frontier, or vice versa for travellers proceeding from England via Trieste to India or China, and by this facility it is no longer necessary to produce the passport on the way or at any of the intermediate Stations during the whole journey. The passport within the Austrian Dominions may at once be countersigned at Trieste by the Consulate of the States through which the traveller passes.\n\n## NOTICE\nWITH reference to the above, the undersigned begs to give notice that, the Firm of WETMORE & Co. having been perfectly solvent at the time of its suspension, he has paid all its Liabilities, and being sole possessor of its Goodwill, has associated himself with Messrs. BIRKBECK LINCOLN DELANO WILLIAMS and Mr. W. WETMORE CRYDER, under the style of WETMORE, WILLIAMS & Co., for the purpose of continuing its business in China. \nW. SHEPARD WETMORE. \nChina, 25th May, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE Business heretofore carried on by us at this Port, having been merged in that of WETMORE, WILLIAMS & Co., our Firm ceases from this day, except for purposes of liquidation. \nWILLIAMS & Co. \nShanghae, 25th May, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE undersigned are appointed AGENTS at Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, to the UNDERWRITERS and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES of HAMBURG and of BREMEN. \nDREYER & Co. \nHongkong, 1st January, 1855.\n\n## NOTICE\nMR ALBERT SERREYS is authorized to sign our firm by procuration. \nSCHAEFFER & Co. \nHongkong, 15th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nMR TORIBIO LAMBARRI was admitted a Partner in our Firm on the 1st of July, 1857. \nW. M. ROBINET & Co. \nHongkong, 20th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nWE have this day established a Copartnership under the style of WETMORE, WILLIAMS & Co., for the purpose of carrying on in CHINA a General Agency and Commission Business, in continuation of that of the late Firms of WETMORE & Co., and WILLIAMS & Co. Until trade at Canton is resumed, or matters in the South of China assume a more satisfactory position, our establishment will be confined to Shanghae, though through our Agents at Macao, Hongkong, and Foochow, we are prepared in the meantime to take charge of business for all the above Ports. \nW. SHEPARD WETMORE. F. D. WILLIAMS. W. WETMORE CRYDER. \nChina, 25th May, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nI have this day established myself under the name and style of NOTT & Co. for the transaction of a Commission Business, at the Ports of Canton, Foochow, and Shanghae. \nWILLIAM NOTT. \nA. B. NEILSON, J. WALTER L. PURDIE D. OLYPHANT VAIL RICHARD G. TYERS. \nChina, 20th May, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nWE have established Mr. DAVID OAKES CLARK as our AGENT at Bangkok, Siam, and all Business to his address comes under our guarantee. \nRUSSELL & Co. \nChina, 11th May, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nWE have this day established a BRANCH of our Firm at Foochow, which Mr. REUBEN SOLOMON will sign per procuration. \nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. \nHongkong, 31st March, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE interest and Responsibility of Mr. HENRY DAVIS in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 22nd Instant. \nDAVIS & LAWRENCE, \nHongkong, 28th February, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nWHEREAS the Firm of WETMORE & Co., composed of Messrs. W. E. WETMORE, W. SHEPARD WETMORE, and Jos. B. GODGE, expired by its own limitation on the 30th June, 1856, being then without Capital or available Credit, and an Assignment of its Effects was made on the 12th July, 1856, to OLIVER H. PERRY, U.S. Consul, at Canton; and whereas W. Moore, the Senior Partner of said Firm, did decease on the 10th February, 1856, being personally bankrupt, whereupon Messrs. GAGE PEABODY & Co., of London, did hold in abeyance all Credits issued by them to the Firm of WETMORE & Co., pending Guarantees from Messrs. WETMORE & Carruthers, of New York, which Guarantees were persistently refused for Six Months after decease of said W. Moore: and whereas WETMORE, WILLIAMS & Co., of Shanghae, profess to be carrying on the business of said firm of WETMORE & Co., which became utterly extinct, and never was renewed or reorganized in any way: Now therefore, the undersigned cautions all parties against dealing with WETMORE, WILLIAMS & Co., in relation to the Affairs of WETMORE & Co., which still remain unsettled in the hands of the Assignee, or with W. SHEPARD WETMORE in regard to any two GODOWNS with capacity for Storage of about 15,000 Piculs Rice. \nOLIVER E. ROBERTS. \nHongkong, 3rd June, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nAll articles subject to duty brought by Passengers to Trieste arriving from Alexandria can, if desired, be discharged by the Customhouse Officers on board immediately on arrival of the Steamer, upon payment of the Customhouse duty thereon. Their Baggage can also be forwarded under Custom Seal, if the traveller wishes to proceed without interruption from Trieste to Vienna. \nWm. PUSTAU & Co., AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S AGENTS, for Canton, Hongkong, and Shanghae. \nHongkong, 20th June, 1867.\n\n## TO LET\nN. DEUS & Co.\n\n## FOR SALE\n\n## NOTICE\nMR WILLIAM PROBST is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm in China, which will continue under the same style, while Mr. Wx. BOLLMANN since the first of February last, has discontinued to act for us. \nJULIUS MENKE is authorized to sign per procuration.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE undersigned has this day commenced business as a Ship Produce and Insurance Broker, and Adjuster of Averages. \nOffice Queen's Road - Second door West from Cochrane Street. \nF. J. MURROW. \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved by the decease of the said James Brown, on the 28th day of April, 1857. \nW. GASKELL. \nDated this 29th April, 1857.\n\n## SHIP CHANDLERS\nF. BLACKHEAD, \nHONGKONG. \nShip Chandler, Sailmaker, and General Agent. \nCopper, Yellow Metal, and Zinc Sheathing, always on hand. \nHongkong, 6th November, 1856.\n\n## COMMISSION MERCHANTS\nMessrs. G. W. HOGG & Co., \nCommission and Wine Merchants, Auctioneers, and General Storekeepers. \nMission Road, SHANGHAE.\n\n## SHIP CHANDLERS\nSTONE & Co. \nShip Chandlers, Auctioneers, etc. \nPagoda Anchorage, Foochow.\n\n## SHIP CHANDLER\nJOHN BELLAMY, \nShip Chandler, Auctioneer, and General Storekeeper. \nAll descriptions of Stores constantly on hand. \nBlacksmith's and Carpenter's work undertaken, and Ships supplied with fresh provisions.\n\n## SHIP CHANDLERS\nCUBBINS AND WELSH. \nShip Chandlers, Commission Agents, and General Storekeepers. \nPagoda Anchorage, Foochow. \nN.B. - Shipping supplied with Ballast.\n\n## IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY\nTHE undersigned Agents are prepared to grant Policies in the above Office against Fire Risks in Hongkong, to the extent of £10,000 - for One, Three, Six, or Twelve Months. \nFor further particulars, apply to \nNEAVE, MURRAY & Co., \nAgents. \nHongkong, July, 1857. \nWm. PUSTAU & Co.\n\n## RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY\nHongkong, 1st January, 1865.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above-named Society, are prepared to grant Policies, Payable in London, Calcutta, Bombay, Rangoon, Penang, Singapore, and in China. \nB. E. CARNEIRO. \nMacao, 1st January, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself at Macao, as a Merchant and General Agent. \nA. J. F. Da CASTRO. \nMacao, 1st January, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nMR FRANCIS CHOMLEY has this day been made a Partner in our Firm. \nHongkong, 1st July, 1867.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE Partnership of the undersigned under the Firm of A. LUBECK & Co. was dissolved on the 2nd of June, 1865, by mutual consent. \nAny unsettled affairs will be settled by either partner. \nJ. A. LUBECK. \nFRANZ KNOOP. \nVictoria, Hongkong, 25th June, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE undersigned, a Partner in the Firm of TORICES FERRAN & DOPHERRIS of Havana, hereby give notice that I have this day established a Branch of the above Firm at Macao, the business of which will be carried on under my own name. \nMessrs. LITAL, STILL & Co. will act as our Agents at the Port of Hongkong. \nA. R. FERRAN. \nMacao, 1st June, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE Co-partnership existing previously to the 12th day of July, 1856, between the undersigned, Mr. Jean B. GODGE, Gentex, and Mr. OLIVER E. ROBERTS, under the Firm of WETMORE & Co., was on that day dissolved by the act of the last-named Partner. \nW. SHEPARD WETMORE. \nChina, 25th May, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nWE have Removed our Establishment from Canton to Shanghae, and have admitted Mr. J. F. H. TRAUTMANN a Partner in our Firm from this day. \nHARKORT & Co. \nShanghae, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nMR EDWARD FORD DUNCANSON and MR ELDRED HALTON were admitted Partners, in our Firm on 1st July, 1857. \nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. \nHongkong, 10th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE undersigned being about to CLOSE THEIR BUSINESS, request that all Outstanding Accounts may be sent for Equidation within Fourteen days from this date. \nEDGLJEE FURDONIEE & Co. \nHongkong, 13th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nMR ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm. \nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. \nHongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\n## COMMISSION MERCHANTS\nWILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co., \nCOMMISSION MERCHANTS. \nSingapore, E. I., and Bangkok, Siam.\n\n## AGENTS\nP. PICKENPACK, \nAgent and Commission Merchant. \nBANGKOK.\n\n## AGENT\nLUIZ BARRETTO, \nAgent and Commission Merchant. \nMACAO.\n\n## AGENT\nW. C. HUNTER, \nAgent and Commission Merchant. \nMANILA.\n\n## COMMITTEE OF MARITIME INSURANCE OF PARIS\nTHE undersigned having been appointed Agents for the Committee of Maritime Insurance of Paris, are authorized to examine and approve claims for General and Particular Averages on Risks insured by them. \nSCHAEFFER & Co. \nHongkong, 27th December, 1856.\n\n## COMITÉ DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS\nLES soussignés ayant été nommés Agents des Réunions d'Assureurs Particuliers et des Compagnies d'Assurances Maritimes de Paris, sont autorisés à examiner et constater des réclamations d'avaries particulières et communes sur des risques assurés par eux. \nSCHAEFFER & Co. \nHongkong, le 27 Dec, 1856.\n\n## TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES\nTHE Directors of the AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION Company in Trieste, have made Arrangements for TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES to be sent to them from China. \nThe Messages should be sent under cover, expressly described \"Telegraphic Despatch\" to the Alexandria Agent, for transmission through the Commanding Officer of the Steamer, and to be delivered soundly on arrival of the Vessel at Trieste. \nThe Charge for Telegraphing 20 Words from Trieste per Submarine to London, is about 16 Florins, or 32 Shillings Sterling; and £1 Sterling for each additional 10 Words. \nThe writing must be in legible words. \nFor further particulars, apply to Wm. PUSTAU & Co., Agents at Hongkong & Canton. \nHongkong, 27th October, 1853.\n\n## NOTICE\nMR R. S. R. FUSSELL is authorised to sign our Firm by procuration. \nBLENKIN, RAWSON & Co. \nChina, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nMR GUSTAV BEHRE is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm. \nDREYER & Co. \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself as an AUCTIONEER, in addition to his present Business of Ship Broker and Commission Agent. \nA GENERAL SALE will be held EVERY WEDNESDAY, at the Exchange Rooms, in addition to Special Sales. \nGoods will be received on any day, and sold according to instructions. \nF. J. ANGIER. \nHongkong, 25th June, 1857.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242329, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 215, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## SUPPLEMENT.\n\nbelonging to the Thistle at the time of the massacre, and a belonging to the shop on the 15th January by Mr Tarant and Mr Macilreath. They all three have known him in his two-fold capacities. Too \n\nsubjected the prisoners to such cruelty will be severely censured by the Government; but we may believe, Gentlemen, that it is without the knowledge of Mr Mercer or H.M. Government. I treat with disdain the insinuations thrown out against me by Dr Bridges, as I feel assured my character is too well established in my \n\nry at the time in question. The 4th has been proved by Mr Duddell and the boy. The 5th, a servant to the Consulate of this Colony. Further, the 7th and 8th prisoners by Mr Daddell and several of the Chinese witnesses. The 9th has been identified as Alum, the Master of the Bakery. The 19th has been recognised as having been suspected as an assistant at the retail shop.\n\nsome time reproaches have been cast upon the Government for not meeting the exigencies of the present crisis with adequate spirit; and the great question in every one's mouth, and has not yet died away, is not \"martial law proclaimed!\" And now that a little vigour is being shown, we are denounced for cruelty and injustice!\n\nIt is not hard to conceive why a different course should be taken, or that in the present disturbed state of the Colony, Asiatics should not be allowed the same privileges as Europeans. Is it not consistent with all that is passing around us to assert that the awful crime perpetrated was by the influence of the Mandarins? And who can hear of the atrocities that have been committed towards Her Majesty's subjects without shuddering, or after the rewards that have been offered for the head of any European without distinction as to his standing by the Chinese authorities at Canton, would not infer upon them as having been the signs of the late attempt to poison this entire Community? And yet, forsooth, the Counsel for the prisoners has told you, Gentlemen, that it is wrong to accuse the Mandarins of being the instigating source. It is a fact that might pass current up to Peking.\n\nThe darkest crime the Newgate Calendar contains bears no comparison to the case now before your notice, Gentlemen. What reward, I ask you, do you think the prisoner Alum would have received, and what could have induced him to have committed such a diabolical attempt? It has been argued that the prisoner's affairs were in a hopeless state of bankruptcy. What would have been his reward? Do you not think that had his crime been successful, he would not have been a high Mandarin at Canton, and that if the crimes that had been conceived to have been committed by him in his countrymen's eyes would have been wiped out, and the past forgiven for ever? Would any one have disapproved if a different course had been pursued towards the prisoners, and instead of allowing them a trial, which such wretches do not deserve, they had been dealt with in a summary manner, and had suffered the short and sharp pangs of death which they had intended we should suffer? Their crime deserved the fate of a traitor's count; but much, Gentlemen, as you may agree that they are before a jury as laid before you, I am bound to tell you, if any reasonable doubt of their guilt rests upon your minds, you are bound to acquit. \"But, Gentlemen, it will not be your duty to stretch the points set up for their defence to too great a length, and in the opinion I feel certain the Bench will concur.\n\nIt was Gentlemen, who advised the Government and Mr Mercer to conduct the investigation as they did. Had the case been sent to the Police Court, what would have been the consequences? Why, the various technicalities of the Law would have led to postponements from week to week, and such postponements would have been most deleterious to the ends of justice. The investigation, I affirm, required to be carried on with the utmost secrecy, or the Government would not have been able to obtain information sufficient to convict them. It is much to Mr Mercer's credit that he came forward and acted as an extra official in his capacity of J.P. at the investigation; and the Government have acted most judiciously in the course they have adopted. The investigation was held in a manner...and that is the reason why it was held. Every means has been adopted by the Government to find out any facts that might transpire, and to bring the diabolical attempt made against this Community home upon the heads of the perpetrators of it. And again, to commit the prisoners at the bar, and not encumber the Justices of the Peace whose hands were full of business.\n\nThe manner in which the case has been conducted is highly creditable to Messrs Mercer and May, for the pains they took to elicit the truth. They obtained evidence sufficient as they thought, and though, to commit the 10 prisoners...\n\n5. The reason the prisoners have been detained by Government being Government is because they are considered improper persons to be at large among the community by Ordinance No 2-1837. I hope either this explanation or no further reflection may be past over Mr Mercer's conduct. I also trust that the report published in our papers this morning may be found to be exaggerated, and that those who are guilty of the alleged cruelties will be brought to justice. At all events, I can assure you, Gentlemen, that I know nothing about it.\n\nI propose now to call your attention to the leading facts of the case as it has been placed before you, and you will not feel wearied, I hope, if I endeavour to point out to you how the various evidence given during the last three days is connected, and how that although the Counsel for the prisoners tried to rebut the evidence, he has rather gone to strengthen the evidence of the prisoners' guilt. I alluded to my opening address on the 1st day of the inquiry, in which I intimated that I would be bringing before your notice such a body of proof as it would be impossible to disprove; and we have done so. Though I must herealong express my thanks to Mr Comper Turner and Mr May for the valuable assistance they have rendered.\n\nHaving cleared the way so far, the learned Gentleman said that as they all were connected with the shop on that day, they must have all connived at the poisoning of the bread.\n\nAnother contract to supply H.M. Commissariat with 100,000 lbs. of bread, and another to supply the U.S. Stores with 108,000 lbs. of biscuit. To do all this, Alum had only $1220 in the chest, and 8,000 lbs. of bread on his premises. Mr Duddell's and Mr Foster's connection with Alum's business is curious. There is to be a partnership between them.\n\neven tells you that when Alum was arrested, he did not consider himself in debt to Alum to any large amount; and you see at the present time he owns himself considerably in his debt. He does not know how the accounts stand. They have been running on for years. There was never a balance struck between them. It was a running account. There is my story in a nutshell - a miscellaneous business.\n\nto me about this manner of carrying on business altogether! \n\nThe great evidence of Mr Pastan, their Cheque de Bataille, who does it all amount to? Moonshine - for you heard yourself how the man quaverated over it, and that what evidence he did give was forced from him by me. I extorted from him by my cross-examination that Alum did not pay him voluntarily, and, Gentlemen, may he not be allowed to draw inferences from facts? So much then for the temptation to commit the crime - it was irresistible. What inducement might Alum afford to sacrifice his brilliant position here when before him stood the bonus of $9000 and the button of a Mandarin of the third class? Wait - (the learned gentleman was here checked by Dr Bridges, who protested most emphatically upon any draft on the imagination - there was not one word in evidence of any reward having been offered - not a word of a Mandarin's button). The Attorney General continued - True - nothing had been given in evidence regarding the reward beyond the rumour alluded to by Mr Dawson - but the jury and the Court could draw inferences when they were evident from the evidence, and inferred from the mass of incoherent perjuries that had been given in the defence.\n\nthe proportion to have been a drachm of arsenic to a pound of bread. If so, there must have been 10 lbs. of arsenic put in the quantity of bread that was baked, and it would be impossible for any one to have mixed that quantity unknown to the overseers, and without the knowledge of those in charge and employed in the shop. At the same time, he asked, had their conduct been such as to leave any doubt regarding their guilt? Dr Harland has informed you that he analyzed the bread and found one drachm of arsenic, but 6 grains in every pound loaf; and by this fact, as elicited, strong presumption that if Alum did not put the arsenic actually in the flour himself, he must have known of its having been put in. I have traced the bread to Deimspier, and I proved that he was poisoned by it. Now, Gentlemen, you must agree with me, I think, that a prima facie case has been established by the Crown. You have, Gentlemen, proof before you of Alum's having been at the bakery on the 14th between the hours of 4 and 6 a.m., at the time the dough was mixed. You have the fact that when the bread left the shop for delivery on January 16th, Alum and his family were attending in the shop. If you believe the evidence you have heard, can you suppose they knew nothing about the poisoning? Another remarkable feature is that poison was found in both white and brown bread delivered. The poison could not have been mixed in the yeast or in the flour, for the most careful tasters would have detected it. Then it must have been mixed up with the dough. Mr Drinker tells you that he left Alum in the dark room at the very time that the men were employed mixing the dough there, and one of the prisoners' witnesses confirms these facts by admitting that the dough was mixed that day at 4 p.m., the very hour of the prisoner's visit. Another stronger proof of Alum's knowledge of the poisoning is that after being told of Aheep's unwillingness to give evidence at the Coroner's inquest on the body found on the Thistle, (Alum) did not dismiss him from his service, but took him into his more intimate confidence, and placed him in a higher post of trust.\n\nMr Tarraut tells you how he warned his servant, as he saw Aheep on that day cavorting in such a situation of trust, though too late, not to take any raw bread from Eating-op, as he had his suspicion that Aheep was concerned in and had conspired at the Thistle massacre. You have thus brought home to Alum, then, the fact of his having been present at the mixing of the dough used in making the bread, at the very moment when the 10 lbs. of arsenic were being mixed up with it; you have this further fact that the dough of which the confectionary was made that day, probably the very dough of which Alum's children's bread were made, was not poisoned. Dr Harland discovered that fact, and I think this body of evidence irresistible.\n\nAlum made his grand stand to prove his innocence, upon his intention to remain - the condition of his affairs, the contracts he had entered into, and the amount of property he held in Hongkong. But the Attorney General knew that he hazarded little when he told the Jury on the last day that he would refute the evidence for the whole of the prisoners - but he would call the attention of the Jury more particularly to the chief prisoner, Alum, and leave the residue to their consideration hereafter. In Alum's statement, he says he had no intention of leaving Hongkong. Now Mr Dixson said Alum had said he thought he should have to go to Singapore. Mr Da Silver, too, told me that Alum told him he thought he meant to leave Hongkong. At Mauzow, the head pirate concerned in the old last robbery was fortunately captured on his way to Singapore, and there is very little doubt that the prisoner Alum was on his way to that Ultima Thule. He told Mr Stephanson he was not going; to Mr Edwards, he said the same. This, Gentlemen, I am about to tell you is an extraordinary fact - that upon Mr Edwards appearing suspicious at Alum's conduct, he at once concluded a contract for flour and bought it at an exorbitant price, paying Mr Edwards for the higher price, he being reminded.\n\nAlso, he knew the punishment that awaited him if he remained home to settle down, and that if he did not take the signal proof to show the Mandarins he was no friend of the Barbarians.\n\nTo remain in Hongkong, we have heard repeatedly. The mat maker received the order from Mr Stephenson 18 days before he returned it again dishonoured, and if Alum's circumstances were in such a flourishing state, why did he not pay the $250, the amount of that order? I wish to know how he could go and engage to supply the Commissariat with 100,000 lbs. of bread and the United States with 108,000 lbs. of biscuit on the very day he had not enough money in his possession to buy the first bill, unless it was in case the poisoning failed and he was taken, and to help Alum in his defence.\n\nThe papers, or title deeds, as Dr Bridges has called them, which were found in the chest are not in his name. They belong to the Cheong tribe, of which he is a member, (but not to him in all trust). It is probable that the $1200 which were found there too did not belong to him, but to a relation, and therefore he dared not touch it. But these papers prove nothing. It is in evidence that the last receipt for rent is sufficient proof of title to land in China - and where is the last receipt for rent? He knew that his family were not safe from punishment while he was in Hongkong; he knew that there were 63 Mandarins in Hongkong; he knew that while he was in Hongkong, he was in the midst of a set of robbers; and, Gentlemen, as I have stated before, without committing some heavy crime against the Barbarians as a proof of his allegiance to the Mandarins, home he dared not go! So much then for the motives recognised as great efforts of virtuous reparation.\n\nNow let us look to his conduct after the crime was done. Was it the conduct of an innocent and unconscious man? He departed in haste for Macao. On his way, he was bailed from a boat by a man he knew well on that morning of the 15th January; he turned his hand away, so that he should not be seen 50 feet from him. But he took the bread on board. That person you heard was not more with him, forsooth a Chinaman does not eat bread, you know! Why, then, did he take nothing but bread on board the steamer for his family - and why on that day did he evince such a partiality for bread? Mr Mackenzie has told you that during the 13 days that Alum has been in his custody, he has never eaten or asked for bread. He says that when his family were taken sick, he sent one of his servant boys to tell the Captain of it, which the Captain has denied, and if his statement is true, why has the refutation not been produced in Court? Gentlemen, you see plainly he sent no message; he could have spoken if he had wished to the gaoler through the bars, or to some of the officers; you naturally suppose from the evidence of the child's sickness being so much for his defence that they were only slightly sick, as the nurse has told you that she and they were quite well after...\n\npayment should not be made until the month of landing in Hongkong. Of the Chinese, Gentlemen, the prisoner Alum knew when he made that contract that before that day became due, he would either be a dead man or a high Mandarin in Canton.\n\nhave been brought before your notice - none have suffered the same effect as Europeans. They have had good...of the pains - none of the symptoms of arsenic with which the Europeans have been afflicted, and, as you have heard, not recovered from the effect of it. The Chinese constitution can allow them a day or two, as he was \"hard up\", might be so very different from that of ourselves, as these circumstances are very remarkable. You, Gentlemen of the Jury, are bound to believe that he told the truth about his intention of leaving this Colony. Do you doubt for one minute that a Chinaman could blind the Chinese? Are not the Chinese spies everywhere - is it not a well-known fact that we cannot keep a secret from them? What should keep him is such I dread at the particular time Mr Edwards called - were not his sons...\n\nhave been old that they would state, Is it not remarkable that Alum's statement satiates the inquiry and blunts \"the European with the low burning of the Chinese!\" But that statement has been proved to be false. You have heard that...\n\nhe owes. Mr Edwards a larger sum of money - to Mr Foster, he owes $900, to Mr Pastan $15,000. To Mr Edwards and Mr Stephenson, he is also indebted to large amounts. He boasts that he had one contract in hand, 27,000 lbs. to 8,000 lbs. of biscuit to Messrs Tao, Bang & Co.\n\nespecially Mr Cooper Turner, who wants constantly going up and down stairs? You heard his services without either fee or reward, and I have great satisfaction in saying that to Mr Forney, he did have taken more pains or spent more time than he has done in making some of the information which passes.\n\nThere is plenty of unprincipled prisoners, and the fact that the bread came from the Eung shop on the 15th Jan. and the connection of the shop and the bakery, have been fully proved. The 1st prisoner has been identified by Mr Wray, and Mr Lopraik, as being in and belonging to the shop on the morning of the 16th January. The 2nd has been proved by Mr Dixson...\n\nto be able to take poison and quickly be a little sick afterwards. Again, Gentlemen, who ever heard of a Chinese waiting till 11 a.m. before he had his breakfast, and at that very breakfast to betray such a marvellous passion for bread? You may suppose from this that it was either a falsehood that the people were sick, and it must be that it was maly sea-sickness.\n\nMr Robinet has told you that when he arrested Alum, he, Alum, said, \"Any man have dishonoured Hong Kong, must...\".\n\nThe whole of Alum's statement, Gentlemen, although well got up, you can now see is a tissue of perjury. The indictment is similar in one point of view to that of Whalley at the York Assizes of 1817; namely, that the abject attempt made has been signally exposed by the medical testimony. There, the radical evidence exculpated the falsehood of the charge - here, it establishes its truth. Yet this case is far stronger than that. There, the only thing that saved Whalley was the manner in which the prosecutrix described the symptoms of her pretended suffering. Doctors Thackrah and Walker declared they could not have been the effect of arsenic. The arsenic was found in the testes, and in the several tampons which the prosecutrix had contrived to produce...\n\nthat the...\n\nShe had mixed the arsenic with poisonous substances besides, and upon being cross-examined, she has confessed she had done so to convict Whalley of the pretended rape. Here, in the present case, the Chinese that profess to have suffered have not said it as plain to every man that Alum's statement is a perjury throughout. Gentlemen, I do not take an interest in their conviction, or that I can treat such men as these impartially. Notwithstanding the taunts and unmanly interruptions to which I have been subjected...\n\nThe learned Gentleman had just before been interrupted by Dr Bridges with an emphatic expression at some passage - it was not; and as the Doctor's words were in the teeth of the Judge's notes, Mr Anstey remarked that though Dr Bridges had fact for his authority, it was unmannerly so to express himself - and that as he had not fact for his authority, it was detecting an epithet he would not bestow on it.\n\nI have, I am sure, in indicating the difference between a real and a pretended case of poisoning - the guilt of the prisoners, Gentlemen, is established by their own defence; and I feel certain if they are acquitted, the Chinese will look upon the British Authorities with contempt. You have seen one man, Aheep, who was present at the Thistle massacre, escaping the ends of justice by the technicalities of the British law; and soon after, you find him uding in attempting to perform another tragedy only on a larger scale. Gentlemen, a clearer case of guilt could never be arrived at by circumstantial evidence; and I fear assured you will find it your duty to convict.\n\nBut I will not attempt to conceal that I have an anxious presentiment as to the probable result. I will not allude to the several unmanageable circumstances that have attended the defence; but I fear that I have not said sufficient to clear away the glamour thrown over your eyes by the opposing Counsel. I repeat, I am doubtful as to the result; and if it should be that you return a verdict of acquittal, I can but tell you that I feel such a verdict will be a great - an unappreciable calamity in this small community. We have first the commission of a great crime, and for that crime, no punishment. Such a verdict would set a precedent in this Colony. Let it once be seen that the law is power...\n\nlet it be established in the Chinese mind that this Court has not the power to check deeds like those unless they are convicted, and carried into execution in the trust or the most public place - then, no longer is the life of a European safe in the Colony; and it will not require the skill of the prophet to number the days of those now present. And there will be another calamity, or rather, (for it exists in some sort already) - it will be made strong and enduring again! The impression is that our administration of justice is corrupt, that our criminal jurisprudence designs not the chastisement of the great men of Tai-ping-shan, and deals only with low and petty offenders; that the laws of England have no terror in their threats for men wealthy and wise enough to submit to the exactions of their prosecutors, and that a judicious prodigality in the matter of fees and costs will always purchase immunity. If the opinion is unfounded, be it your part, Gentlemen, to disabuse them of their error.\n\nThe Attorney General here resumed his seat, and it must have given him great satisfaction to hear by the stamping of feet that the public felt thankful to him for the pains he had taken to bring the guilt home to Alum and his fellow prisoners.\n\nThe Court adjourned for 18 minutes, and on resuming, his Lordship, the Judge, addressed the Jury to the fact that it would be their duty to expunge from their minds anything they might have read or heard outside the Court. Alum had been shown to have been at the bakery the afternoon of January 14th, while the dough was being mixed, and if the Jury thought that he had mixed the poison, or ordered it to be mixed, or had any knowledge about it, they must adjudge him guilty. His Lordship then read over the whole of the evidence and Alum's statement (which will be found below), after which he said, if they were of opinion that it was false about his family being sick, it would be prima facie proof of his guilt; as if, on the contrary, they thought they had been poisoned, there would be a prima facie reason for believing him innocent. This, however, was for them to judge. His Lordship then said that as the Attorney General had explained every part of the evidence so clearly to them, it would be useless for him to go over it again. The Jury retired then for 30 minutes, and on their return into Court, returned a verdict of Not guilty by a vote of 9 to 4, which was received with hisses.\n\nThe Judge looked at the Attorney General, and the Attorney looked at the Judge, but as the prisoners were acquitted, they must be discharged. Before they left the hall, however, they were again arrested, and taken to gaol as suspicious persons.\n\n## ALUM'S STATEMENT.\n\nCheong Alum, his statement - being duly cautioned, saith - With regard to the poisoning of the bread, he is entirely ignorant - but the bread is made in one part of the oven, and he lives in another.\n\nTo Mr Dawson, he said - he never had any idea of doing such a thing, but just declared the contrary. To him, he had pretended that it was only a pigeon, and that a little medicine would make all proper. But what is incoherent and bewildering. To the same Mr Dawson, he also confessed that the reason why the offer of the 60 dollars was made to Cheung, had been because...\n\nthat he having eaten of that morning for Macao, was considered on board, as an argument of his guilt.\n\nHe came to the Colony at only 18 years of age - he was first employed by Mr Bigelow, whereby afterwards went to California; after that by Mr Franklyn; then by Morrison, Stephenson & Co.; then by Mr Da Silver, for whom he made biscuits, as well as did other business. He some time afterwards purchased a machine for making biscuit, and then another from Mr Daddell, for $1,800; and as these were insufficient, he purchased sugar...\n\nSee back, page No. 17.\n\nIndigen.\n\nLogsp.\n\n10030 Trong không \n\nGovernment Offices, Hong Kong \nof the Tophers in 1875 \n\nThe Chief Magistrate having applied for certain Law Books as will be seen from the enclosed: his letter to the Colonial Secretary, I have the honor to request that...\n\nThe Right Honorable \nHenry Labouchere, M.P. \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 89, "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}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.**\n\n[JUNE 5, 1858]\n\nSealed Tenders will be received at the Office of the Colonial Secretary, at any time between this Date and the 19th Day of June instant, both inclusive, for the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle within the Slaughter-houses specified in \"The Markets' Ordinance, 1858,\" (Section XX.), and the Bye-Laws dated the 1st Day of June now instant, and notified in the Hongkong Government Gazette, of the 4th Day of the same Month.\n\nThe Consideration or Rent, Conditions, and Period of the said Privilege, shall be such as, and none other than, are in the said Ordinance and Bye-Laws respectively set forth; and it will commence on the 1st Day of July next. Every Tender must state the exact amount intended to be offered as such Consideration or Rent; which will be payable Monthly, and in advance.\n\nBy Order,\nW. T. BRIDGES,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th June, 1858.\n\n## POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nTHE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer \"NORNA,\" will close on SUNDAY, the 6th June, at 6 o'clock P.M.\n\nThe usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 2d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.\n\nAll Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 1 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.\n\nPost Office, Hongkong, 27th May, 1858.\n\nF. W. MITCHELL,\nActing Post-Master.\n\n## Steam for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON; ALSO, BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nTHE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Steam-ship \"NORNA,\" Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 7th June, at 2 P.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on board until 3 P.M. on the 5th; SPECIE until Noon on the 6th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 6th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Messrs DANTELL, DICKINSON & Co., of London, in our Firm, ceased on the 31st January last. Mr WILLIAM DICKINSON continues to be a Partner with us.\n\nALFRED WILKINSON & Co.\nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nI, the undersigned, have admitted Mr. F. INNES HAZELAND a Partner in my business, of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary Public.\n\nG. COOPER TURNER.\nHongkong, 15th March, 1858.\n\n師拿丹士丹拿謹啟未士谷巴月初一日戊午年二\n\n## POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED, for general information, that on and after WEDNESDAY Next, the 9th instant, a PACKET AGENCY will be established at Whampoa, and Messrs SMITH & BRIMELOW, have been appointed to conduct the Postal duties there.\n\nPost-office, Hongkong, 5th June, 1858.\n\nF. W. MITCHELL,\nActing Post-Master.\n\n## COPPER-PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain) printed from them at the Office of the \"China Mail\".\n\nHongkong, September, 1857.\n\n職作時煙招N狀倫你得之伴蝦士\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE is authorized to sign the name of our Firm in China.\n\nHOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.\nHongkong, 1st December, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nMAXN. FISCHER,\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 24th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nI, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co.\n\nH. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.\nWhampoa, 7th April, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.\n\nJAMES PURDON & Co.\nHongkong, 18th April, 1858.\n\n## In the Estate of the late ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, MASTER MARINER, deceased.\n\nNOTICE. All Persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in particulars of the same, before the 31st July, 1858, and all Parties indebted thereto, are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.\n\nFRED. HOWE HALE,\nH.B.M.'s Officiating Consul, Administrator.\n\nBritish Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTo be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, at FOOCHOW, on ... LOT, containing a GODOWN, with RESIDENCE on the Upper Floor,--the Property of the late Mr. R. C. CRAWFORD.\n\nFRED. HOWE HALE,\nAdministrator.\n\nBritish Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR GEORGE J. HELLAND is authorized to sign our Firm.\n\nJOHN BURD & Co.\nHongkong, 8th May, 1858.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.\n\nPRICE, $12 per Annum; Single Copies, Thirty-five Cents.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,--Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents--All of these charges for each Repetition.\n\n## Ms I. Bowring No 40.\n\n...\n\nShare to acknowledge the receipt of your Dispatches Nos. 73. and 77. of the 1st and 21st of June last respecting ... See Sir G. B. ...'s last ... of the Acting ... Minister on ... 8532 which ... Secretary that no ... will be returned to that Keep...\n\n...\n\nThe trouble of writing a long ... Message, it is proper for me to mention that Share no directions having represented to the Governor Edward that Dr. Bridges has accepted ... above ... in the important Office of Acting ... Colonial Secretary of H. Kong at a moment of great ... responsibility when there was no ... body ... in the Colony who wither Could or would succeed to it, and having performed the duties of that Office with honesty, energy, and success.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244373, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# 112 \n\n## HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, THE 12th June, 1858.\n\n**NOTICE.**\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED to Masters and others in Charge of MERCHANT VESSELS and HOLES, laying at Anchor in this Port, that, from this date forward, it shall be considered a standing Harbour Regulation, that all such Vessels shall exhibit, between sunset and sunrise, a GLOBULAR LANTERN, so constructed as to show a clear LIGHT, to be attached to the Starboard Fore Yard Arm, or, in the case of dismantled Vessels and Steamers, to such point as it can best be seen from, by vessels arriving from Seaward.\n\nFailure to comply with this Regulation, will be treated as a breach of Clause No. 8 of Ordinance, No. 11 of 1845.\n\n**A. L. INGLIS, Acting Harbour Master**\n\n## POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nTHE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “CADIZ,” will close on MONDAY, the 21st June, at 6 o'clock P.M.\n\nThe usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.\n\nAll Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.\n\n**F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.**\n\nPost Office, Hongkong, 12th June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of MR. C. H. H. WILSON, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.\n\n**HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.**\n\nSingapore, 17th May, 1858.\n\n## BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nTHE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's Steam-ship \"CADIZ,” Captain BROWN, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 22nd June, at 2 P.M.\n\n| Item | Deadline |\n|-------------|-------------------|\n| CARGO | 5 p.m. on the 20th |\n| SPECIE | Noon on the 21st |\n| PARCELS | 2 P.M. on the 21st |\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\n**CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.**\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\n**MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.**\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 10th June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nWE, the undersigned, have admitted MR F. INNES HAZELAND a Partner in my business.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE interest and responsibility of Messrs DANIELL, DICKINSON & Co., of London, in our Firm, ceased on the 31st January last. Mr WILLIAM DICKINSON continues to be a Partner with us.\n\n**ALFRED WILKINSON & Co.**\n\nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nWE, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Firm of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co.\n\n**H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.**\n\nWhampoa, 7th April, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nGEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.\n\n**JAMES PURDON & Co.**\n\nHongkong, 13th April, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nIn the Estate of the late ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, MASTER MARINER, deceased, All Persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in particulars of the same, before the 31st July, 1858; and all Parties indebted thereto, are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.\n\n**G. COOPER TURNER.**\n\nHongkong, 15th March, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE is authorized to sign the name of our Firm in China.\n\n**HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.**\n\nHongkong, 1st December, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nA Waterside LOT, containing a GODOWN, with RESIDENCE on the Upper Floor, the Property of the late Master Mariner, will be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, at FOOCHOW, on or about the 1st July, 1858.\n\n**FRED. HOWE HALE, Administrator.**\n\nBritish Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the `China Mail`, Hongkong- PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents.\n\n**TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS**—Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\n## 178.\n\n## Financial.\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th June, 1858.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI brought the subject of the increase of the Salary of Clerk of Councils before the Legislature at their sitting the 10th Instant, and they unanimously agreed that Mr. Almada should be paid, at the rate of $200 a year from 1st January, last.\n\nThe Right Honorable \nLord Stanley \n... \n\nPage 181 \nPage 112 \nPage 178 \nAUG 23 1858 \nRECEIVED", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# THE FRIEND \n## AND HONGKONG \n### OF CHINA \n#### GAZETTE.\n\nVOL. XVII No. 60.\n\nPUBLISHED WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY \nVICTORIA WEDNESDAY, JULY 28TH 1855.\n\n212\n\n**PRICE $10 per annum**, \nA pro forma edition of the Overland China Mail is also published for England. Price includes a reprint.\n\n**SUBSCRIPTION**, per Annum, Sixteen Dollars payable in advance, quarterly or otherwise, at option. Single Numbers, 97 cents. For every opportunity of decline to Europe by steam conveyance--the terms of Subscription which are Eight Dollars per annum payable in advance, or the most important intelligence of the previous week, week, or month, and a summary condensed to the latest possible news--Post-paid via Marseilles the postage of one page is compulsorily payable in advance. If sent via Marseilles the postage of three pages is payable by the party receiving.\n\n## TRIESTE ROUTE.\n\nTHE AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAMERS ply regularly between Alexandria and Trieste, corresponding with the monthly and bi-monthly Italian Steamers.\n\nThe Fares have been reduced and the following rates have been fixed, viz.-- \n1st Class £16; 2nd Class £11; 3rd Class £6; including Table money and fees.\n\nArrangements have been entered into between the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Company and the Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Company, that, -- \n1--Passengers leaving China via Trieste, can receive Tickets from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents for Alexandria. \n2--Passengers' Baggage can be shipped from Alexandria by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers for Southampton; the Freight being Ten Shillings Sterling per Cwt. \n3--Receipts for Cargo and Specie intended for Shipment to Trieste, will be granted by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents at Alexandria, instead of to Suez as formerly, but each Package is to be provided with a white label, on which is distinctly marked in print.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nKUPFERSCHMID, B. A. WARDELL, and A. N. SHEARER, have this day formed a Co-partnership for the transaction of business at Shanghai and Foo-chow, as General Storekeepers, Auctioneers, Commission Agents, and Chronometer Watch and Clock Makers, under the Firm of \n**KUPFERSCHMID & Co.** \nShanghae, 15th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nALL outstanding accounts of the late Firm of **KUPFERSCHMID & DATO** will be settled by \n**KUPFERSCHMID & Co.** \nShanghae, 16th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as Commission and General Agent. \n**B. E. CARNEIRO.** \nMacau, 1st January, 1867.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nIN Trust for the **AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAMER**, the undersigned, have this day commenced... \nFor further particulars apply to \n**W. POSTAU & Co** Agents at Hongkong and Canton, \nHongkong, 1st July, 1863.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that in consequence of the lamented death of Mr. Waitaan MANDEL ERNET, the Sole Partner of the Firm of **W. M. ROBINET & Co.** of Canton and Hongkong, the said Firm ceases... \n**FRANCIS S. ALVAREZ** Attorney of the late W. M. ROBINET, \nHongkong, 21st July, 1869.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **CHARLES W. HUDSON** is authorized to sign our Firm. \nWe have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers and Commission Agents, under the Title of **TALBOT, DEVINE & Co.** \n**H.E. TALBOT**, \n**W. H. DEVINE.** \nWhampoa, 7th April, 1858.\n\n## VICTORIA EXCHANGE.\n\nTHE undersigned begs to notify the client that he will relinquish his business in favor of MR **ORNEY DUDDELL**, on the 30th Instant. \n**F. WOODS.** \nQueen's Road, Hongkong, 1st June, 1858.\n\nA reference to the above advertisement I shall establish myself at the Victoria Exchange, as Stockbroker, Commission Agent and Auctioneer; on the 1st July, 1859. \n**GILMAN & Co.** of Canton. \nQueen's Road, Hongkong, 1st June, 1859.\n\nHongkong, 22nd July, 1858, \nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Bangkok, Siam, under the management of \nMR **CH. H. WILSONE**, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration. \n**HAMILTON GRAY & Co.** \nSingapore, 17th day, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **NE JUDAR** has this day been admitted a Partner in our Firm in his place. \n**QUALI & Co.** \nHongkong, 1st June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **ANTONIO A. De MELLO** has been admitted a Partner in our Firm from this date. \n**A. A. DE MELLO & Co.** \nMacao, 1st June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMESSRS **G. W BOUG & Co.** \nCommission and Wine Merchants, Auctioneers and General Storekeepers. \nMission Road, SHANGHAE. \n**S C WOODRUFF.** \nShip-Chandler, Storekeeper, and General Agent, \nQuay, BLIGHT OR SOLD ON COMMISSION. Ship and Family Stores put up at the Shortest Notice. \nCorner of Queen's Road and Pottinger Street, Hongkong. \n**STONE & Co.** \nShip Chandlers, Auctioneers & General Agents. \nPicom Anagaran ses, Pouseaw.\n\nWE have established MR **DAVID OAKES** as our AGENT at Bangkok, Siam, and all Business to his address comes under our guarantee. \nChina, 11th May, 1857, \n**RUSSELL & Co.**\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **GUSTAVUS A. ROESING** is authorized to sign for our Firm per Procuration. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nHongkong, and Macao, 1st May, 1878.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **ALBERT SERRUYS**, having left this Colony, has ceased to sign for our Firm. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nHongkong, 24th April, 1858.\n\n**LUIS BARRETTO.** \nAgent and Commission Merchant. \nMACAO.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **HENRY C. ENDICOTT** and MR **JOHN M. ARMSTRONG** represent our Hongkong Firm, and are authorized to sign from this date. \n**THOMAS HUNT & Co.,** of Whampoa. \nHongkong, 9th February, 1868.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE Co-partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the Firms of **KUP-FERSCHMID & DATO**, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. \n**F. KUPFERSCHMID**, **WILLIAM T. DATO.** \nShanghae, 15th May, 1858.\n\n313, \nHemp and Cotton Canvas, \nDemi Merino and Ceint Rope, Blocks, Anchors, Chains, \nCopper and Yellow Metal. \nProvisions, &c., &c., &c. \nAs S. & Co import largely from New York, they guarantee to sell as low as any House in China. \nA Post-boat to and from Foochow daily (Sundays excepted). \n**JOHN SHILAIY & C°.** \nShip Chandlers, Auctioneers and General Storekeepers. \nAMOY.\n\nAll description of Stores constantly on hand. Blacksmith's and Carpenter's work undertaken, and Ships supplied with fresh Provisions.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned beg to intimate to Masters of Vessels and others visiting the Port of SWATOW that they have established themselves as Ship Chandlers, Commission Agents, and Auctioneers, and as PILOTS, at the above Port; and by strict attention to business they hope to merit a share of Public Patronage. \n**CLARK & Co.** \nDouble Island, 22nd April, 1858.\n\n**F. BLACKHEAD,** \nHONGKONG. \nShip Chandler, Sailmaker and General Agent. \nCopper, Yellow Metal, and Zinc Sheathing, always on hand. \nHongkong, 6th November, 1856.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE Business carried on here under the Firm of **CRESSY, LUBECK & Co.** is dissolved this day by mutual consent. All outstanding accounts will be settled by Mr LUBECK, who will continue the said business under the Firm of **LUBECK & Co.** \n**W. K. CRESSY.** **L. A. LUBECK.** \nMacau, 10th July, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **W. W. BONNETT** is authorized to sign for me during my absence from this Colony. \n**H. MARSH.** \nHongkong, 29th March 1859.\n\n**LOUIS HEERMANY**, Watch and Chronometer Maker and Jeweller. \nBEGS to announce, that he has commenced business in this Colony in the Queen's Road, in the lower portion of the premises known as Mrs Maune's Linery Establishment. \nCHRONOMETERS Carefully cleaned and rated. \nHongkong, 1st February, 1858.\n\n**WELSH & Co.** \nShip Chandlers, Commission Agents, and General Storekeepers, \nPagoda Anchorage, Foochow. \nNB--Shipping supplied with Ballast.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has assumed the management of **WADES HOTEL**, Road Camp, Macao, on this day. \n**CRESSY.** \nMacao, 20th July, 1858.\n\n## COMITÉ DES COMPAGNIES D'ASSURANCE MARITIMES DE MARSEILLE.\n\nLES soussignés ont été nommés Agents du Comité des COMPAGNIES D'ASSURANCES MARITIMES DE MARSEILLE. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nAgents des Compagnies d'Assurances Maritimes de Paris et Marseille. \nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## COMMITTEE OF MARINE INSURANCE OF MARSEILLES.\n\nTHE undersigned have been appointed Agents to the MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES OF MARSEILLES. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nAgents to the Marine Insurance Office of Paris and Marseilles. \nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned are appointed Agents at Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, to the UNION INSURANCE and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES of Hamburg. \n**DREYER & Co.** \nHongkong, Canton, and Macao, to the UNDERWRITERS. \nHongkong, 1st January 1856.\n\n## TOONG-FOK-TAE.\n\nTHE undersigned has undertaken the management of the above Firm, and begs to inform the public that he will always have on hand at the firm's Warehouse, by the Wharf known as TOUT PERES DA SOUZA in CARNER's Garden Praya, Macao, --Sugar, Sugar Candy, Matting, Crackers, and other products of the very best quality. \nThe TOONG-POK-TAI having extensive connections both on the East and West Coast, the undersigned is certain that they are able to effect sales at lower prices than any other house in the South of China. \nMacao, 7 June, 1853.\n\n## AMOY.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES. \nTHE Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company at Trieste, have made Arrangements for TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES from China to any Part of the Continent. \nThe Messages should be sent under cover, superscribed \"Telegraphic Dispatch\", to the Alexandria Agent, for transmission through the Commanding Officer of the Steamer, and to be delivered immediately on arrival of the Vessel at Trieste. \nThe Charge for Telegraphing 20 Words from Trieste per Submarine to London, is about 16 Florins, or 32 Shillings Sterling; and £1 Sterling for each additional 10 Words. \nThe writing must be in legible words. \nFor further particulars, apply to \n**WM POSTAU & Co.,** Agents at Hongkong & Canton. \nHongkong, 27th October, 1868.\n\n**MONUMENTAL MASON &c.** \n**BROWN, JONES & Co.** \nMonuments and Head Stones erected in the best style and at the lowest possible charges. \nApply to the Sexton at the Court-house.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned begs to inform Ship Masters visiting the Port, and the community generally, that he has this day admitted MR **ATHANASIO De SOUZA**, (formerly of the Hongkong Dispensary) as a Partner in the business of the QUEEN'S ROAD DISPENSARY; and that, consequent on arrangements made for a regular importation of Drugs and Chemicals they will be enabled to furnish the Consular and other ports in China on wholesale terms. \n**GEORGE M RYDER.** \nHongkong, 1st July, 1858.\n\n*\"THE MEDICAL HALL.\"* \n**R J. J. BRAGA** begs to inform his Friends, and the Public, that he has this day opened an Apothecary's Shop in the Queen's Road, at the House formerly occupied by the late Mr **CHARLES MARKWICK**. \nHis long Experience in the business will, he hopes, gain for him the confidence of the Public; while he will endeavour to merit their Patronage by constantly keeping on hand a good supply of fresh Medicines. \n*\"The Medical Hall,\"* Victoria, Hongkong, 24th August, 1857.\n\n## MILLINERY AND HABERDASHERY ROOMS.\n\nMRS **JURGENS** & Mrs **RICKOMARTZ**, \nbeg to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Hongkong, that they have this day opened the above establishment in the Queen's Road, on the first story of the House opposite the Oriental Bank, and beg to solicit a share of the Public Patronage. \nHongkong, 10th May, 1858.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED.\n\nSOME very handsome Marble Mantel Pieces and Tables, and a Splendid Marble Chimneypiece. Also, Saddlery, Riding and Driving Whips, Walking Canes, &c. &c. \n**H. MARSH.** \nHongkong, 3rd July, 1859.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nCAPTAINS and CONSIGNEES of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the enhanced Cost of Provisions, &c., the Trustees of the SEAMEN's HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the Rates of Admission, which on and after the 1st of April, 1857, will be to the Public Wards, .. 90 cents per day. Intermediate Wards, $1.20. Private Rooms, $2.50. \n**1. MAGNIAC,—Trustees.**\n\n## STORAGE.\n\n15,600 Piculs of Rice. \nA GODOWN OR TWO can be had able to hold... \nFor particulars, apply to \n**N. DOUS & Co.**\n\n## DIRECT PER PARIS.\n\nby the P. & O. Steamer \"Singapore\". \nPOISSINS and Millinery of the Latest Paris Fashions, Silks, Ribbons, &c., &c. \n**MRS. MARSH.** \nQueen's Road, 23rd July, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE United States CONSULATE is removed to the New Building on Painter's Wharf, Next to the Post-Office. \n**O. E. ROBERTS,** \nVice-Consul. \nHongkong, 24th July, 1859.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned beg to inform the Public that they have REMOVED their ESTABLISHMENT from the front of... \nAberdeen Street, Queen's Road, to the New Buildings on PEDDER'S WHARF, \n**THOMAS HUNT & Co.** \nHongkong, 19th July, 1858.\n\n## COPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPERSONS having their own ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS printed from them on application at **D. NORAH's** office, Wellington Street, or to **J. da Cruz**, at this office. \nHongkong, 7th October, 1857.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251736, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## \n\nIn this community would provide suitable accommodation and an after office for him. After some discussion upon the pros and cons of the question as at present known to us, I put the question to the Committee. Now whether with the information before it, the Committee consider it desirable, or not, that the Post Office arrangements at this port should be under the control of the Government of Hong Kong in the manner now proposed.\n\nTo which the Committee gave a unanimous reply that it did not consider the proposed arrangement a desirable one. It appears to the Chamber that should the Government of Hong Kong decide on establishing a branch office on shore, and paying all expenses of salary and residence, no possible objection could be raised by residents at this Port; but that if the community of Shanghai is called on to supply a large portion of the outlay required, the control and management of the Post Office should be exercised at this port, as would be the case if former arrangements were reverted to.\n\nThis Chamber in its annual Report dated 27th July last stated its opinion that the best course would be for the management of the Post Office to revert to the Consulate and cannot discern in the present offer of the Government of Hong Kong any advantages sufficient to alter the expressed opinion.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258807, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "Inclosure No 5 in Despatches\n\nM. 14 of 1864\n\n411484\n\nUnited States Consul to Colonial Secretary\n\nCopy\n\nthe\n\n336\n\nConsulate of US of America at Hongkong, March 1864.\n\nthe\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge\n\nreceipt of your communication dated March the 1864 in which,\n\nth\n\nby direction of His Excellency the Governor, you bring to my notice\n\ncircumstances connected with the recent visit of the Federal War Steamer \"Wyoming\" to these waters, and referring to violations on the part of her commander of the Government Proclamation\n\n26th\n\nMy\n\nmarch 1862.\n\ncommunication withi\n\nLetter from the Colonial\n\nfrom\n\nStates Consul calling\n\nSecretary to the Sivrited\n\nhis\n\nof the \"Wyoming\" in Hongkong\n\nattention to the proceedings\n\nof the \"Wyoming\" in Hongkong Waters.\n\n§ & March 1864.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259302, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "content_text": "speed tatu - for pirate:. pompons- the cost about £20,000 and will porche \n\nlight draft of \n\nbe sold for half Rad \n\n-7 \n\nJusw. \n\nI hope you will. \n\nim wants in mind. \n\nAny thing can be done \n\nthe matter. Bebine te \n\nYours very tigh \n\nMounters & Robust \n\nFOR DESPATCH|PER P. & O. CO/S STEAMER ORISSA. \n\nStraits Times \n\nOVERLAND JOURNAL \n\nVOL II. No. 47 \n\nTANJO NG PAGAR DOCK OOMPANY \n\nLIMITED. \n\n'Capital 125,000 Dollars, IN 1,250 SHARES OF 109 DRS BACH \n\nWITH POWER TO INCREAS \n\nCOMMITTEE, \n\n5. Giában, Begnive. M. F. Davi fazu, Bag C. 1. Parisøya. \n\nC. π. H. Wilsone, ..., \n\nJ. K. So, Tha Ki \n\nChing, \n\n+ \n\nG. Cramer, \n\nC. P. Laila, \n\nTes. Scott. APPLICATIONS FOR SHARES Y NE ΜΑΡΗ ΤΟ \n\nTHO, SCOTT. \n\nActing scere larg. Singapore, Est Sept., 18 53. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nTHE EAST INDIAN UNDERWAITARY ASSOCIATION, indienst ring heen appointed arent \n\nfor the above effies, are presared to grant policies on country or Deme Vozrzen. \n\nCRO. ARMSTRONG & Co. Singapura, 1813 October, 1863. \n\n(..) \n\nSTRAYS TIMES OVERLAND JOURNAL, \n\nSingapore, 22nd December 1863, \n\nThe Straits Times Overland Journal is \n\nSINGAPORE, TUESDAY \n\nSUMMARY \n\nTax London mail of the 10th ul biano reached this by the China on the morning of the 14th instant; and the Messageries steamer Tigre, with the Marseilles mail of the 19th ultimo, came in yesterday morning, \n\nThe Commission appel ted by H. M. Government to enquire into and \n\n22ND DECEMBER, 1863 \n\nvery considerable beacfit by the native triders here. \n\nThe resignation, or as some say the diasissal, of Me. Lay from the office of Commissioner of Castones in China, and Captain Osborne's failure to estab lis the Anglo-Chinese Navy, on what appeared to him a sound basis, are the chid items of intelligence from China, and of which a detailed aremit will \n\nreport upon the condition of the Set-be found in another part of our Jour- nu. Two of the steamers, the amoy tlement has not yet held any sitting. \n\nand the Kwantung have already There are to be three members only- \n\nreached this on their way to Bombay Sir Hercules Robinson, Colune! Ca \n\nthe other steamers it is said, proceed renagh, and Colonel Freeth of the \n\ndirect to England. There can be no Royal Artillery at Ceylon. The latter \n\ndusht that a large sum of money must geatleman has not yet arrived, being \n\nhe last through the miscarriage of detained it is believed as the Court \n\nthe scheute either to the Chinese Go- Martial of Major O'Brien; and until \n\nvemment, the Home Government, or he reaches this, nothing can be done. \n\nthe ship-builders; it is probable how- That the community might not be \n\never that the toriner have been the \n\nvictims. \n\ncharged with having grown luke-waim on the subject of the Transfer, a pub- lic meeting, convened by the Sheriff, was held in the Town Hall on the a committee was 12th instant, when a \n\npublished three hours before the depor-uthted to draw up a repart apoD \n\nturn of eneb Homeward Mail. \n\nIn it \n\nwe intend to give a short sketch of our own doings her, and of what goes on in \n\nthe present condition of the rere- \n\nBLO nuc, commerce, \n\nresmirces of the Straits. \n\nThe information contained \n\nCHINA. \n\nThe news of the past fortnight has been somewhat interesting. The great evout \n\n395 \n\n35 cents. \n\nthat he should have peraeserad, throughout\" ia the same course of action. \n\nWe have nothing to add to what we arated a fortnight ago. The Fleet is still reported as being alient to sail for England; and the whole afair promises to be one of the most dis graceful matters with which the British kame has ever been mixed up. \n\nHang-Chow will no doubt egon fall, and, failing other means, the hoperialists will be able to atarse the Rebels out of Naoking. Between aurrendor and death, the Sonchow arry will no doubt, cease to exist. \n\nFrom Japan we learn that Satsuma still declines to pay the indemnity demanded from him by Admiral Kuper, except condition that every foreigner quits Yoko. hama The British forces in Japun ure evidently waiting for support, and are not likely to withdraw from the country until something has been done much more devi- give than the affair at Kagosinra. \n\nWith regard to Major Gurdon and the Rebels, we have to report that Soochow has fallen. Gorden abecket the city at SAM, on Saturday the 5th inst., and en- tered the place on the avae morning. Dis- sunion and broken wut amongst the rebels. and a party of them, desirous of surrender. ing the city, ent the Mo Wang's head off, Kumour says that 30 60 wanted to fur- \n\nnot only of the fortnight, but of the pre-render, and 11.at 20,00 had remained trus \n\nsent year, has been the dismissal from the \n\nthe surrounding parts to which Singapore in this report will he placed at the he served of 31r. H. N. Lay, who, fur several years back, has filled the post forms a common centre. We exclude all \n\nservice of 11. M. Commissioners, should Commercial Intelligence, in the shape of \n\nof Lispector Genaral at Foreign Customs, Market reports or Fees Current, as these \n\nthey desire to avail of it; but in any \n\nThe pause of this dismissal is understood Publications of this kind already here can ase it will be published for the satis \n\nto bị that Mr. Luy's demands upon the convey much fuller and more reliable in \n\nfaction of the community het \n\nnity here, and of Chinese Gorernment were not only prepoe- formation than we could possibly erody those et home interested in the affairs ferous themselver, but somewhat anopant- in this Journal. Besides, we would desira by this publication to give our own lirtio of the Straits. It is a fact, that the 15 urged. On this head however we have history a place in the minds of the people Transfer has been placed in its present no riculars, but must refer enquirers at home, and to do this well, will require All the space our four pages allow us. We \n\nforward position almost entirely by the despatches sent to Her Majesty's assure our readers that we shall always by the afforts of the retired ralts Re-order by palu Voucher giad to advantage by the suggestions aidents at Home; and som \n\nnight go. Mr. Lay's disusissal is not Bome dis- they may give us, and trust that in this way our Overland Journal may become play such as this, of interest on the and continue a sort of institution among \n\na desirable. Besides, it is neces \n\nof the present Residents, was 日。 \n\nDOMESTIC OCCURRENCES \n\nA \n\nBIRTHS. \n\nAt Singapore, on the 8th inst, the wifu af Capt. Hadiya, of a dan bizt, \n\nAt Singapore, ou the 11th tua aut, thenie \n\nof N. B. WATSon, Eeg of a Nox. \n\nOn the 18th inat, Mus. F. Kusemann \n\neta os. \n\nDIED. \n\nAT MADADCA, on the mining of the 3-d instant, at & o'clock, J. T. Faasen, time. \n\nufe Macros Medical Service \n\nTam following passengers have ar- rived during the fortnight, \n\nPer stealuer China from Galle:- \n\nPar Sing-pure- Mr. and Mrs. Marlin, Mr. mil Mrs. Young and European Founale sorsut, Mr. and Men, Jonas and 2 Jolante, Mrs. Young, Mears, oling, and Atok. \n\nFanghangrass, actio, Swnduse, J. Peyronunt, F. Jasber, A. Daito, A. Join \n\nFor Shanghai, --Mans. Gwyn, Qvilat, W. Hardy, fi. Howard, and Dr. Barclay, \n\nPer steamer Koningen der Neder. landden from Batavia :--- \n\nMeara, Gillian, Bilnek, Wallberg, B. Dom Fiel W. Jackson, Noums, Uyranje Dad Buy Fergusson, l. Pois ou. Alts Bilen \n\nlook and Miss flerne. \n\nPer Messageries Imperiales steamer Tigre :- \n\nFor Singapore-Musern, Van Bommen, senioudt, Schimdt, Kist, Horn, Van Nixsen, Ebrard, Tran- ser, M. M. Scott, Beth, Boterusan. Mr. and Mea Van Laer, Mr. and Mrs. Bruys and 1 julant, Mr. And Mrs. Le Cange and 2 obikleen. \n\nFor Saigon,—Mr. and Mrs. Telesin and family Mgr. Larrier Mazen, Lafou Arou frere and Malane Brisis aud 9 veligiouses, \n\nfur laghong-Mesa, Kerr, J. Smith, Haase, Forbes, Sever, Speccy, Espana, Minana, Har. reny, Morton, Nevelle brdrigues, fermet Dec \n\nSchmidt, Sillem Petit Pierre, and de Hagito and 1 Got, \n\nTus following passengers have de- parted during the fortnight -- \n\nPer steamer Orissa, and to sail to- day. \n\nFrom China- \n\nFor Southmpton. Mra. Fisft, Mr. and Ms. Stiil, and family, and Mr. C.D. Wecka. Far Marseille Mrs. Muthus, child. and servant, Messrs. O'Sullivan, E R. Clapp, and B. F. Funy. \n\nFor Bombay. Mr. Couinisior, Lieut. Paul, and 2 servent, 1 Native office and 4 con-commissioned officers, \n\nFrom Singapore. \n\nBishop Boone and Mrs. Baane and Mr. and Mrs Kucb, \n\nsary to give the very greatest promi- uence to the fact that the actual re- I venae now, exceeds that shewn in the last published statistics by about £35,000; 3 \n\nand there is also good reas sou to believe, that u considerable re- duction of expenditure will be appa- rent. The increase of Revenue is derived from two items alone. The first is an increase on the returns of the Excise farms, which sold in April for £12,000 more than the rate of last year. The other item arises from fact that in our accounts for the the present year we will have twelve \n\nin \n\nsea \n\n(15 \n\nregretted, either by the Customs employés, or by the Foreign Mercantile Community of Chies. With regard to the employés in the Customs service, we do not know the reasons for their not regretting Mr. Lay's Gismissal se only know that such in the Chad. The gratulation of the merchants is much more easily understood, Abuut a year age, the Briel Government thought it to publish a Memorandum which had Buxted from Mr. Lay'e pun, and which was not only called for in the siram. atanes, but not at all coneistant with ub. The object which the lake Inspec tor-fieneral had in view in peuning the netid Merooranium was praballs to exhibit certain amount of temper (not good temper) towards the Foreign Me coucle Community for baring on various occasions displayed towards himself a per- \n\naltogether unprovoked, but would have her much better suppressed. People in Eugland will, we know, believe us, when we see then, last 53. II. N. Lay, in bis Memorandum,\" maligned the Mer- has of China, and that the latter body makenly afforded him some provocatias for doing so. Ilis conilest, however, in act ing upon the procation was inexcusable; and y consequence, that, though an able, l, so far as wo know, a strictly pright man, he rotires from pustic life in China, without the redit or sympathy, which it was, at mu time, ao easily in his power to have arned for bimself. His Buccessor, Mr. R. Hart, euters, office will the general good wishes and esteem of the whole mercantile body. We shall not, henrick, hear of any quarrels between the Merchants and the Custoas \n\nmonths return of the Stamp Tax, in-tain spunt of rascour which was dol stead of three months was the case last accounts; and this will make a difference of £21,000 at the least. \n\nThe Batch Mail brings no further accounts of the Alabama which has very possibly changed her eraising A very suspicious looking gr. Steamer crossed the lows of the Mail boat her way up me \n\non \n\nhere; she is des ribed as a long, low, black painted harque-rigged vessel \n\nflew the French \n\nand the Dutch flag. On board stcamer, she was believed to be the Alabama; but it is just possible that she was the U. steaner 'yning which would equally well suit the des- cription. Whether the diabama is still in the neighbourhood of the Java or not, it is pretty certain that she has committed no more destruction tbere, \n\notherwise the crews of the cap- tured vessels would have been sure to turn up at some of the Dutch ports, \n\nAn amelioration of the regulations relating to the Exports of Arms from this Part, contained in the following Dotification, was published five days ago in the Government Gazelle.\" With reference to Notification No. 146, dated 28th October 1863, His Ho- the Governor has been pleas- ed to dispense with the prescribed de elaration in all cases in which Arms in reasonable quantities may be ex- ported from Ports in the Straits Set- thement to Cochin-China, Siam, the States in the Malayan Peninsula, or any of the Islands in the Easters Ar- chipelago.\" This will be esteemed a \n\nFPT \n\nThe germ of this affair has been tho quadron which arrived in Chins some time ago under the command of Lap twin Sherard Oshorne. The course which Captain Osborne should probably have parsed, was to have reported insett, on his arrival in the Yangtexs river, to the Governor General of the Two King, and to have given him delivery of the Fleet. Mr. Lay, however, is reported to have de. manded the direct recognition by Prince Kuug of Capt. Osborne, and to have de clined delivering over the vessels to aby local provincial officer. Tseng Ko-fan, to whom the Chinese Governatont desired the vessels to be given, is a man of great note, and rulos over not less than 20,000,000 of people, beeides possessing most extensive infance in the Chinese Empire. Mr. Lay, of all men, was to have been expected to have avoided the mistake of ignoring this mandarin; and people hore are surprised \n\nto the cause; and, moreover, that, of tha later number, some still lanhl out in the different parts of the city. The bohowding of the Mo Wang has not only facilited the captuot Stochow, but just go a great wat durmaanse the Rebels ge- nerally- \n\nHango and Nanking act keep up commification; and, as die Rebels base not now, jas 1967 leed in 1860 when they burss hveigung besència ni Nan. way large with s Kiangs or any where else, they will soon be in bad way. Full information has not yet reached un At the late i our last advicea Capt Afurray and Mr. Mayera of the Consulate who had both rone to the front, had not returned with detailed intelligence. \n\nFrom the river Yang.tsze we have no Bows of importance. All is quick in the suuthen ports. \n\nOur contemporary the Daily Press, has the following on the Sll of Soochow ; and we are inclined to boilere it in every par ticular. The Imperialists are cortainly a atupid set neocle, and the sooner we drop assisting them the batter:- \n\nSuch in later of kite at. There are re. liable via in town to the off that Treng o-an, wha hotly pressing Nauting, thst the Chung Wang had left Soochow will the best Taiping troops to its relict; this provi, ou were geitug scarce, and that the pity most fall ung hevet by free from with- \n\nOUT \n\nClining Wings craenation of Sochow is therefore easily aparated fat. We are more- over from the ins · letlar qooked from our cor- respondents, tisat Li Thong, the leader of the dinated party at saustow, had ouried his surrendering the city. and had been puins inurdered for his paine. The defection of the Chang Wang bad karly thrown randiges inte the hands of Lá Wang-whn we should sup pose lead at red into arrangeraunts of capica- İsion with Major Gordon, which arrange. ments would naturally embrace, immanity for himself and wie laid down their prop. The Futai would naturally seek me nadi. vided honor of capturing the city-therefore it doubtless was that be male the bargain wish Gordon's men that they should have two 20ouths pay as componsation for not entering the city. Having thus cleared the stage for bise, the Fatai enters the ei.y, ignores the conditions of surrender, looks and macdere right and tela, and breaks his prondse in Yor- don's ment. \n\nThis is the view we take of the trafter. | Gordon would naturally eeck to Faka van. geance on the rascally Futai and wonid u-tur- tally appeal to General tiroan, wie having supplied at the mairioms for the urge, would of course seek to obrain satisfaction. We Chias Hoochow has fallen, but we are of epi- nion that Gordon will either arrest the Puni or will bring such pressie to bear on him na will sufficiently publish the Blajne's cepag- nanoe to a hat has occurred. \n\nWe learn on good authority ihat upon the fall of Soochow, Gordon will rotire from the Imperial service, and that a Consular notities tion will be issued strictly prohibiting all Briliah kuljerte from engaging their services \n\nher to Tuperialists or Taiping. A charge has clearly come o'er the apris of the dream, and honest convictions have overtaken 1. M. Mmisters. The crooked, underhand, doubled faced policy of the Brucea have been pinye. out, and has exeised the indignation it me, rited-Overland China Mal", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]", "content_text": "98\n\nUS\n\nHang Min. Tez, (###) the property of Charles Carroll, Esquire, of St. 13 M bonsulate, silicate within the city on the north side is from the rooms and adapted for walls the number of general situation admirably the above purpose.\n\nThe rent asked by Mr. Burroll is $30 a month.\n\nThe premises generally will require to be in good repair, but a portion white washed. A stove is also necessary. Mr. Burroll agrees to the insertion of a clause enabling either party to terminate the tenancy on a previous notice of three months duration.\n\nOf the Student Interpreters, the following outlay on the part of the Colonial Government will be no longer necessary, namely, to each of two teachers the sum of $5 per mensem now paid them for rent, and the sum of $1.15 per mensem now paid to the Interpreter of the Police Bank as an extra teacher.\n\nIn addition to this balance of $5 per Mensem to be paid by the Colonial Government, I have to apply for a free payment of the freight of such passage to and from Canton at the commencement and termination of our official stay in that City, being given.\n\nWith reference to the payment of $30 per mensem as rent, I would desire to bring before the notice of His Excellency the Governor that, during the stay at Canton, the house furniture as it may be possible to convey there, for some small additional Sum for the completion of the internal arrangements of the house.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262298, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "465 \n\nI shall be rejoiced if any interference on your part may obviate this difference. As regards the rendition of prisoners claimed by the Chinese Government, I have no alternative but to follow the plain evident reading of the Treaty, and to require in future due requisition by the Chinese Authorities, as the memorandum will show. Concerning any ordinary business that may arise, it shall be managed through the Consulate.\n\nMy particular object in addressing you is to request that we may be supported by us to the Chinese Government for that guarantee which I am instructed to procure. I have addressed both the Vice Roy and the British Consul in vain, and the Ordinance, now in pursuance of the Secretary of State's directions before the Legislative Council of this Colony, will be totally inoperative unless the guarantee be given.\n\nAs the memorandum above enclosed gives full details of the difficulty in which I am placed, I have now to ask for your good offices in procuring the guarantee required by Her Majesty's Government against the torture of Pirates surrendered.\n\nI have no desire to make further comments on the course pursued by either the Vice Roy or the Consul.\n\nI have, &c.,\n(signed) **R. D. Mercer** \nActing Governor & Commander in Chief", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "content_text": "## NOTICE FROM THE CUSTOMS.\n\n### OFFICE OF MARITIME CUSTOM, CANTON, 5th April, 1866.\n\nSIR,\n\nHis Excellency the Superintendent of Customs has requested me to inform you that the steamer **Prince Albert** has been seized, because she unlawfully entered the port of **Shuey Tung**, and that the said steamer will be confiscated unless before noon on the 11th instant, being the sixth day from the date of the delivery of this notice, the Superintendent of Customs receives from the British Consul an official application to have the case fully investigated.\n\nTo the Owner of the Steamer **Prince Albert**.\n\nI have the honor to be Sir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n**GEO. B. GLOVER**, Commissioner of Customs.\n\n## PETITION TO THE CONSUL\n\nTo **DANIEL BROOK ROBERTSON**, ESQUIRE, C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Consul for Canton.\n\nThe Humble Petition of **Kwok a' Cheong**, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hong-kong:-\n\nThat your petitioner has resided for many years in Hongkong, and is the owner of certain steamers and small vessels, for which under the provisions of the Local Ordinance of the said Colony, Colonial Registers as British ships have been granted to him. That one of the said vessels so registered as a British ship, and owned by your petitioner is the small steamer **Prince Albert**, of Hongkong, and that for some time previous to, and on the 21st day of March last past, the said vessel had been laid up in the harbour of Hongkong, and had no master on board.\n\nThat on that day Oo Tye of the Tow Shing shop, in Hongkong came to me, and said that a friend of his had a Junk coming up the Coast from Cochin China, to Hongkong, with cargo, that the said Junk had been dismasted in bad weather, and that he wanted to know what I would charge to send a steamer, to go in search of her down the West Coast, and tow her up to Hongkong.\n\nThat I agreed with the said Oo Tye to charter my said steamer **Prince Albert** to his friend, to go in search of the said Junk, for the sum of Six Hundred Dollars, which sum was to be paid to me whether the said steamer succeeded in finding the said Junk or not.\n\nThat it was further agreed between us that should the steamer succeed in finding the said Junk, a further sum should be paid for towing her up to Hongkong, the amount whereof should be settled between the Captain of my said steamer, and the person to be sent down in the said steamer on behalf of the Charterer, according to the size of the Junk, which was unknown to me, and the distance from Hongkong at which she was found.\n\nThat my said steamer being laid up I had to procure a master for her, which I did, and on the morning of the 22nd day of March last, I took the said master to the office of the Colonial Secretary of the said Colony, and had his name placed on the Register of the said steamer as master.\n\nThat the said master then applied to the Harbour Master of the said Colony for a Port Clearance to go out and search for a Junk to tow to Hongkong, and that such Port Clearance being granted, the said steamer left to search for the said Junk with a person on board sent by the Charterer to identify the said Junk when found.\n\nThat I placed neither Cargo nor Merchandize on board the said steamer, nor was any such placed on board of her to my knowledge, and that the said steamer was not dispatched for the purpose of trading at any Port or Place on the Coast of China, but solely and absolutely for the purpose of searching for, picking up, and towing the said Junk to Hongkong.\n\nAnd I make this solemn affirmation conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled \"An Act to repeal an Act of the then present Session of Parliament intituled, An Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other Provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.\"\n\nSigned, &c.\n\nThat I am informed by the master of the said steamer that he only went into the place where the steamer was found to make enquiries for the said Junk, and landed the said person sent down by the Charterer to make enquiries from the native craft as to whether the dismasted Junk had been met with or seen by any of them, and only went in and anchored there, while waiting his return, because where he was lying outside the port there were very heavily armed craft, and he had only 6 men besides firemen on board, with only a few muskets, and no guns in case he was attacked, and that the only object of the steamer's presence there was to wait for the person who had gone to make enquiries, and having obtained information, to proceed on her search for the said Junk down the Coast, the said steamer having already searched this side down the mainland of China without meeting with the said Junk, and that the said steamer did not leave Hongkong with the intention of going or resorting to such place, but went in there casually for the said object, and if the said Junk had been met with by the said steamer, she never would have gone in there.\n\nYour petitioner therefore prays that the steamer **Prince Albert**, which has been seized by the Imperial Maritime Customs for alleged breach of Treaty, may be released and handed back to him, or if the authorities decline to do so that you will be pleased to apply for the proper investigation and adjudication in the matter, and your petitioner will ever pray, &c.\n\n## ARTICLES BETWEEN MR. WADE AND PRINCE KUNG, RELATIVE TO CASES OF CUSTOMS SEIZURE.\n\n### NOTIFICATION No. 41 of 1865.\n\n**British Consulate, 29th November, 1865.**\n\nThe undersigned circulates for the information of the British Mercantile Community, the English Text of four rules agreed to between the Prince Kung, and H. B. M. Chargé d'Affairs **T. F. Wade**, Esq., C.B., under which public enquiry is to be conducted at Shanghai in any case in which a British subject conceives his vessel or goods to be wrongfully withheld from him by the Customs Department of the Port.\n\nThe said rules do not effect the penalties recoverable under Articles 37 and 38 of the Treaty of Tientsin, the same belonging to the jurisdiction of H. M.'s officers in China.\n\nIt is understood that these rules are open to revision after a twelve months' trial.\n\n(Signed) **CHARLES A. WINCHESTER**.\n\n### Revised Draft of Articles inclosed in Mr. Wade's Despatch to the Prince Kung.\n\n**27th October, 1865.**\n\n#### Article I.\n\nWherever a ship or goods belonging to a British subject may be seized in a port of China by the Customs, the seizure is to be reported without delay...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "content_text": "(4)\n\nShing has not yet returned nor has the said Junk yet arrived in Hongkong. That the above was the sole and only purpose for which I chartered the said steamer, and that no cargo or merchandise of any description was laden on board of her by me or any other person to my knowledge.\n\nAnd I make this solemn affirmation conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled \"An Act to repeal an Act of the then present Session of Parliament intituled, An Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other Provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.\"\n\nSigned, &c.\n\n(5)\n\nguns in case he was attacked, and that the only object of the steamer's presence there was to wait for the person who had gone to make enquiries, and having obtained information, to proceed on her search for the said Junk down the Coast, the said steamer having already searched this side down the mainland of China without meeting with the said Junk, and that the said steamer did not leave Hongkong with the intention of going or resorting to such place, but went in there casually for the said object, and if the said Junk had been met with by the said steamer, she never would have gone in there.\n\nYour petitioner therefore prays that the steamer Prince Albert, which has been seized by the Imperial Maritime Customs for alleged breach of Treaty, may be released and handed back to him, or if the authorities decline to do so that you will be pleased to apply for the proper investigation and adjudication in the matter, and your petitioner will ever pray, &c.\n\nPETITION TO THE CONSUL\n\nTo DANIEL BROOK ROBERTSON, ESQUIRE, C.B.,\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Consul for Canton.\n\nThe Humble Petition of Kwok a' Cheong, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hong-kong:\n\nThat your petitioner has resided for many years in Hongkong, and is the owner of certain steamers and small vessels, for which under the provisions of the Local Ordinance of the said Colony, Colonial Registers as British ships have been granted to him. That one of the said vessels so registered as a British ship, and owned by your petitioner is the small steamer Prince Albert, of Hongkong, and that for some time previous to, and on the 21st day of March last past, the said vessel had been laid up in the harbour of Hongkong, and had no master on board. That on that day Oo Tye of the Tow Shing shop, in Hongkong came to me, and said that a friend of his had a Junk coming up the Coast from Cochin China, to Hongkong, with cargo, the said Junk had been dismasted in bad weather, and that he wanted to know what I would charge to send a steamer, to go in search of her down the West Coast, and tow her up to Hongkong. That I agreed with the said Oo Tye to charter my said steamer Prince Albert to his friend, to go in search of the said Junk, for the sum of Six Hundred Dollars, which sum was to be paid to me whether the said steamer succeeded in finding the said Junk or not. That it was further agreed between us that should the steamer succeed in finding the said Junk, a further sum should be paid for towing her up to Hongkong, the amount whereof should be settled between the Captain of my said steamer, and the person to be sent down in the said steamer on behalf of the Charterer, according to the size of the Junk, which was unknown to me, and the distance from Hongkong at which she was found. That my said steamer being laid up I had to procure a master for her, which I did, and on the morning of the 22nd day of March last, I took the said master to the office of the Colonial Secretary of the said Colony, and had his name placed on the Register of the said steamer as master. That the said master then applied to the Harbour Master of the said Colony for a Port Clearance to go out and search for a Junk to tow to Hongkong, and that such Port Clearance being granted, the said steamer left to search for the said Junk with a person on board sent by the Charterer to identify the said Junk when found. That I placed neither Cargo nor Merchandize on board the said steamer, nor was such placed on board of her to my knowledge, and that the said steamer was not dispatched for the purpose of trading at any Port or Place on the Coast of China, but solely and absolutely for the purpose of searching for, picking up, and towing the said Junk to Hongkong, and that I am informed by the master of the said steamer that he only went into the place where the steamer was found to make enquiries for the said Junk, and landed the said person sent down by the Charterer to make enquiries from the native craft as to whether the dismasted Junk had been met with or seen by any of them, and only went in and anchored there, while waiting his return, because where he was lying outside the port there were very heavily armed craft, and he had only 6 men besides firemen on board, with only a few muskets, and no ...\n\nSIR,\n\nNOTICE FROM THE CUSTOMS.\n\nOFFICE OF MARITIME CUSTOM,\n\nCANTON, 5th April, 1866.\n\nHis Excellency the Superintendent of Customs has requested me to inform you that the steamer Prince Albert has been seized, because she unlawfully entered the port of Shuey Tung, and that the said steamer will be confiscated unless before noon on the 11th instant, being the sixth day from the date of the delivery of this notice, the Superintendent of Customs receives from the British Consul an official application to have the case fully investigated.\n\nTo the Owner of the Steamer Prince Albert.\n\nI have the honor to be Sir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nGEO. B. GLOVER. Commissioner of Customs.\n\nARTICLES BETWEEN MR. WADE AND PRINCE KUNG, RELATIVE TO CASES OF CUSTOMS SEIZURE.\n\nNOTIFICATION No. 41 of 1865,\n\nBritish Consulate, 29th November, 1865.\n\nThe undersigned circulates for the information of the British Mercantile Community, the English Text of four rules agreed to between the Prince Kung, and H. B. M. Chargé d'Affairs T. F. Wade, Esq., C.B., under which public enquiry is to be conducted at Shanghai in any case in which a British subject conceives his vessel or goods to be wrongfully withheld from him by the Customs Department of the Port. The said rules do not affect the penalties recoverable under Articles 37 and 38 of the Treaty of Tientsin, the same belonging to the jurisdiction of H. M.'s officers in China.\n\nIt is understood that these rules are open to revision after a twelve months' trial.\n\n(Signed) CHARLES A. WINCHESTER.\n\nRevised Draft of Articles inclosed in Mr. Wade's Despatch to the Prince Kung.\n\n27th October, 1865.\n\nArticle I. Wherever a ship or goods belonging to a British subject may be seized in a port of China by the Customs, the seizure is to be reported without delay\n\n92", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "content_text": "(4)\n\nShing has not yet returned nor has the said Junk yet arrived in Hongkong. That the above was the sole and only purpose for which I chartered the said steamer, and that no cargo or merchandise of any description was laden on board of her by me or any other person to my knowledge.\n\nAnd I make this solemn affirmation conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of \"An Act to repeal the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled an Act of the then present Session of Parliament intituled, And Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other Provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.\"\n\nSigned, &c.\n\n(5)\n\nguns in case he was attacked, and that the only object of the steamer's presence there was to wait for the person who had gone to make enquiries, and having obtained information, to proceed on her search for the said Junk down the Coast, the said steamer having already searched this side down the mainland of China without meeting with the said Junk, and that the said steamer did not leave Hongkong with the intention of going or resorting to such place, but went in there casually for the said object, and if the said Junk had been met with by the said steamer, she never would have gone in there.\n\nYour petitioner therefore prays that the steamer Prince Albert, which has been seized by the Imperial Maritime Customs for alleged breach of Treaty, may be released and handed back to him, or if the authorities decline to do so that you will be pleased to apply for the proper investigation and adjudication in the matter, and your petitioner will ever pray, &c.\n\nPETITION TO THE CONSUL\n\nTo DANIEL BROOK ROBERTSON, ESQUIRE, C.B.,\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Consul for Canton,\n\nThe Humble Petition of Kwok a' Cheong, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hong-kong-\n\nThat your petitioner has resided for many years in Hongkong, and is the owner of certain steamers and small vessels, for which under the provisions of the Local Ordinance of the said Colony, Colonial Registers as British ships have been granted to him. That one of the said vessels so registered as a British ship, and owned by your petitioner is the small steamer Prince Albert, of Hongkong, and that for some time previous to, and on the 21st day of March last past, the said vessel had been laid up in the harbour of Hongkong, and had no master on board. That on that day Oo Tye of the Tow Shing shop, in Hongkong came to me, and said that a friend of his had a Junk coming up the Coast from Cochin China, to Hongkong, with cargo, that the said Junk had been dismasted in bad weather, and that he wanted to know what I would charge to send a steamer, to go in search of her down the West Coast, and tow her up to Hongkong. That I agreed with the said Oo Tye to charter my said steamer Prince Albert to his friend, to go in search of the said Junk, for the sum of Six Hundred Dollars, which sum was to be paid to me whether the said steamer succeeded in finding the said Junk or not. That it was further agreed between us that should the steamer succeed in finding the said Junk, a further sum should be paid for towing her up to Hongkong, the amount whereof should be settled between the Captain of my said steamer, and the person to be sent down in the said steamer on behalf of the Charterer, according to the size of the Junk, which was unknown to me, and the distance from Hongkong at which she was found. That my said steamer being laid up I had to procure a master for her, which I did, and on the morning of the 22nd day of March last, I took the said master to the office of the Colonial Secretary of the said Colony, and had his name placed on the Register of the said steamer as master. That the said master then applied to the Harbour Master of the said Colony for a Port Clearance to go out and search for a Junk to tow to Hongkong, and that such Port Clearance being granted, the said steamer left to search for the said Junk with a person on board sent by the Charterer to identify the said Junk when found. That I placed neither Cargo nor Merchandize on board the said steamer, nor was any such placed on board of her to my knowledge, and that the said steamer was not dispatched for the purpose of trading at any Port or Place on the Coast of China, but solely and absolutely for the purpose of searching for, picking up, and towing the said Junk to Hongkong, and that I am informed by the master of the said steamer that he only went into the place where the steamer was found to make enquiries for the said Junk, and landed the said person sent down by the Charterer to make enquiries from the native craft as to whether the dismasted Junk had been met with or seen by any of them, and only went in and anchored there, while waiting his return, because where he was lying outside the port there were very heavily armed craft, and he had only 6 men besides firemen on board, with only a few muskets, and no\n\nSIR,\n\nNOTICE FROM THE CUSTOMS.\n\nOFFICE OF MARITIME CUSTOM,\n\nCANTON, 5th April, 1866.\n\nHis Excellency the Superintendent of Customs has requested me to inform you that the steamer Prince Albert has been seized, because she unlawfully entered the port of Shuey Tung, and that the said steamer will be confiscated unless before noon on the 11th instant, being the sixth day from the date of the delivery of this notice, the Superintendent of Customs receives from the British Consul an official application to have the case fully investigated.\n\nTo the Owner of the Steamer Prince Albert.\n\nI have the honor to be Sir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nGEO. B. GLOVER. Commissioner of Customs.\n\nARTICLES BETWEEN MR. WADE AND PRINCE KUNG, RELATIVE TO CASES OF CUSTOMS SEIZURE.\n\nNOTIFICATION No. 41 of 1865.\n\nBritish Consulate, 20th November, 1865.\n\nThe undersigned circulates for the information of the British Mercantile Community, the English Text of four rules agreed to between the Prince Kung, and H. B. M. Chargé d'Affairs T. F. Wade, Esq., C.B., under which public enquiry is to be conducted at Shanghai in any case in which a British subject conceives his vessel or goods to be wrongfully withheld from him by the Customs Department of the Port. The said rules do not effect the penalties recoverable under Articles 37 and 38 of the Treaty of Tientsin, the same belonging to the jurisdiction of H. M.'s officers in China.\n\nIt is understood that these rules are open to revision after a twelve months' trial.\n\n(Signed) CHARLES A. WINCHESTER.\n\nRevised Draft of Articles inclosed in Mr. Wade's Despatch to the Prince Kung.\n\n27th October, 1865. Article I. Wherever a ship or goods belonging to a British subject may be seized in a port of China by the Customs, the seizure is to be reported without delay\n\n240", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271526, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "content_text": "## 5 \nThe artisan, for they make Teas and Silks dear, as well as impede the distribution, amongst millions of buyers, of the various productions of his handicraft. If the policy, which we are now advocating be adopted, we picture in the future many small foreign trading posts throughout the various provinces, whither foreign merchandise, in original packages as imported, could be conveyed cheaply, safely, expeditiously, and then be parceled out among the native dealers and shopkeepers. Foreigners should not on any account be allowed to open shops, or sell by retail; as the sole and immediate aim is the transmission, inexpensive, speedy, and untaxed save as may be lawful, of foreign goods to the native consumer, and of produce to the shipping ports. Upon similar grounds likewise should foreign-owned craft be strictly prohibited and restrained from sharing in, or interfering with, the purely native Inland Traffic. The evidence of the past justifies us in affirming that but a few years' duration of such a system would bring about a most noble and gratifying increase of our trade with this Empire, and open large fields for the exercise of British intelligence and the sound employment of British capital. We need not dwell upon the advantages to be also derived from more intimate acquaintance with China and her productions; these are self-apparent; but we must not omit to point out that any extensive resort to the right of residence would render requisite a greater or lesser knowledge of the Chinese written and colloquial languages. The extent of this knowledge would not, probably, be individually great, though it would be of daily increase, but the benefit, which it is fair to estimate would accrue from it to civilization and to commerce, might in time acquire such stupendous proportions as merely to contemplate is to desire to set on foot.\n\n## 6 \nThe foregoing is the bright side of the question of the right of Inland residence; on the other hand must be viewed weighty considerations of not so pleasant a character. Points of collision would be multiplied; official expenditure would naturally be increased; and we shall not be surprised to find that both Governments shrink from a policy apparently charged with much explosive material. But nothing venture, nothing have; England's national aim is the extension of her influence and trade by every fair and honourable means; therefore let not her Representatives shun difficulties which can be overcome, to the avoidance of acquisitions which must be great, and which may prove momentous. We shall be well satisfied if Her Majesty's Government approach this delicate question in no more than a tentative spirit, so long as they do so with firmness and honesty of purpose. We would counsel their immediate obtainment of the largest measure of privilege, but their retention in their own hands of the extent to which from time to time such privilege should be accorded to the Queen's subjects. Let the area of residence be no more than periodically enlarged. Let good conduct on the part of all engaged in this Inland Traffic be secured by strict and onerous bond, to be set in motion, if necessary, upon mere suspicion of misbehaviour, and there will, we believe, remain little room for apprehension that either the honour of the British flag will be tarnished, or the dignity of the Chinese one be insulted. In further support of which opinion, we would point to the changes which have taken place in the foreign communities of China during the past few years. The privileges conceded by Treaty, the enforcement of which we now advocate, were at the time of their concession, calculated, perhaps, to throw broadcast upon the Empire a lawless body of men, unacquainted with restraint, and amenable to no authority; for not only was the general temper of the foreign mind then exaltant and unruly, but the common desire of both Imperialists and Rebels to avail of them for military purposes had attracted to the shores of China a most ungovernable collection of abandoned adventurers. These, the influences of time and peace have already eliminated from amongst us; while the sobering effects of misfortune have checked the spirit of too ardent traders, and are causing all classes of men to act with prudence, and to observe caution. The present moment, therefore, seems one peculiarly fitted to put in force those rights to which by Treaty we are entitled; and which are rights, also, that could not fail to prove of lasting good to either nation.\n\n## 7 \nWe take leave of this portion of our subject, hoping that the language in which we have expressed ourselves will make clear our general impression that the success of future British Commerce with China will depend mainly upon the extent to which foreign traders shall be permitted to come face to face with the people, as well as upon that to which Treaty obligations shall be respectively enforced. Yet before we proceed further, it becomes our duty in the interests of our country's trade, which are our own, to impress upon the Government that if they fail, or refuse, to secure for Englishmen the right of Inland residence in China, they must not palter with the other side of the question. The High Chinese Authorities have throughout suffered, or caused, Articles XII and XXVIII of the Treaty of Tientsin to be persistently and openly violated, to the almost utter abrogation of the advantages conferred by them. In complete defiance of these Articles, foreign trade has been, and continues to be, heavily and widely taxed in excess of the stipulated transit duties; and we have consequently with much mortification often seen defeated efforts intended in the first instance to benefit ourselves, but which, had they been successful, would have likewise benefited many others. We have pointed to Inland residence and its adjuncts as the true remedies for these grievances and evils; and we now loudly assert that if such remedies are to be denied to us, the Queen's Government ought not to flinch from the proposition and achievement of other measures calculated to secure real freedom of foreign trade with the Chinese Empire. We hold ourselves prepared to be reminded that mere Inland residence, and more Navigation of inland waters, may not free foreign trade from illegal provincial impost or taxation to the extent which we would have represented ourselves as imagining these measures will do. We may be told that the taxes, which could not be levied upon goods protected by foreign convoy, might still, in another shape, be wrung by Mandarin exaction from the Chinese themselves. If so, it would become the duty of Her Majesty's Ministers to devise means for, at least, the correction of this mischief, the probable development of which we, with much pain, confess; but there would be no need for them to be discouraged thereby, the evil might prove great, but from a national point of view certainly not so great as that of which we are complaining; and after all it would be an evil which those who have read thoughtfully the past well know must pale and fade away before the irrepressible advance of knowledge and civilization.\n\n## 8 \nThe better, more equitable, and certain accordance of Justice by Chinese Courts to foreign plaintiffs, next urgently claims attention. By articles XVII, XXII, and XXIII of the Treaty of Tientsin, the adjudication of all grievances experienced by British subjects at the hands of Chinese subjects, was vested in the Consuls and the native Officials, an appeal naturally lying to the High Authorities at Pekin. This system has not worked satisfactorily at any of the ports; but save as hereinafter described, we are not prepared to suggest any amelioration of its practice, except at Shanghai. Shanghai is, we do not need to say, the most considerable seat of foreign commerce in China, and consequently from its dealings have arisen the great majority of English complaints against Chinese. To meet this demand for Justice no sufficient provision was made by the native Authorities, and at length the difficulty of obtaining even so much as an appearance of action from these functionaries, led in connection with the question of the good government of the settlement of Shanghai, to the establishment of what was, and is still, denominated the \"Mixed Court\" that is, a Court wherein sit as Co-Judges, some \"Mandarin\" on the part of the Chinese, and some member of the Consulate on the part of the British. Designed at first to take cognizance particularly of Police cases, the Mixed Court became, from the convenience arising from it, and because of the utter want of confidence attaching to the decisions enunciated by the Native authorities in their City \"Yamen,\" a tribunal of general resort whenever plaints were laid by British against Chinese subjects. For such jurisdiction, however, the construction of the Mixed Court has shown itself essentially faulty, and it is not to be denied that when actions-at-law have been brought before it, Englishmen have failed to obtain redress, whereas on the other hand, Chinese rights and pretensions have been supported to the uttermost farthing. The Chinese possess a code of Moral, but none of Civil, law; all disputes concerning property or commercial obligations, are decided by them according to crude, puerile, notions of equity; and their Officials are rarely free from, at least, the suspicion of bribery. As though to make this worse, the office of British Co-Judge has hitherto been filled by individuals totally untrained to legal pursuits, of but moderate rank in the public service, and in receipt of salaries utterly inadequate to the grave responsibilities with which they have been charged. So constituted, the Mixed Court has proved a failure, but an improvement, nevertheless, upon the procedure that previously existed; while without doubt, it contains the germs of a system of judicature well calculated to meet the international requirements of both countries. The Mixed Court, however, has never gained, and until reorganized, never will gain the confidence of British subjects. It behoves us, therefore, to cast about for a remedy; and this remedy we would hope to find in the complete removal, as far as can be from time to time expediently effected, of all legal jurisdiction from under Consular control, and in the immediate erection and international recognition of a Mixed Court at Shanghai whereof the Co-Judges should hold well-paid, permanent, appointments, and be Magistrates of such high rank and status as that each should command attention and respect, not only from his own, but from the other's Government as well. It is not for us, as we have in a previous paragraph hinted, to suggest detail; that is the province of those to whom shall be entrusted the revision of the Treaty; but we believe that the object aimed at would be achieved, were there to the Chinese Co-Judgeship permanently appointed an Official, with the rank, it might be, of Taoutai, enjoying credit and reputation amongst his own people, and to the British Judicial post a lawyer of attainments and position so good, as to cause the enforcement of his enunciations and decisions to be incumbent upon the Chief Diplomatic authority at Pekin. An additional Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court of China and Japan might well likewise occupy the post of British Co-Judge; but, be this as it may, for the future let British Co-Judges be legal gentlemen of standing so important that neglect of their dicta by the Chinese the British Minister neither would nor could ignore. Then, and then only, will Englishmen in China place faith in the jurisdiction of Mixed Courts; while the benefits to accrue to civilization might, in the end, prove well worthy of Great Britain. As we have said, the Chinese possess a code of Moral, but none of Civil, law; is it not, therefore, the more necessary that the British conduct of Mixed Courts should be confided to trained jurists, from whose native colleagues' and their own concerted decisions might in time arise a definite system of international jurisprudence? Let police matters and civil causes of trivial amount be decided by subordinates; but let all important suits against Chinese be heard before such a Court as we have endeavoured to portray. We have already stated that we would prefer to see all legal jurisdiction of a civil character eliminated from amongst the duties of Consuls, whose functions and powers would then become of only an executive and criminal nature; but we are well aware that except at Shanghai the time has not yet come for the establishment of Mixed Courts. Nevertheless, one essential feature of the system might be followed at Foochow and the other ports with the greatest advantage; we mean the permanent appointment of a native Co-Judge to sit with the Consul upon all important occasions. From such a measure would flow certain mitigation, at least, of the delays and bad faith persistently manifested by the native Provincial Officials, as well as accession of dignity and authority to the Consular judicial position, because the decisions of the Consular Courts would acquire consistency and weight with the Chinese. Another subject now calls for discussion, and we proceed to it, begging Your Excellency to bear in mind that the observations just made are put forward suggestively, and not as the opinions of men claiming acquaintance with juridical questions.\n\n## 8 \nThe rightful application of Tonnage dues is a duty which has hitherto been grievously evaded by the Imperial authorities, and it is necessary that the fulfillment of Article XXXII of the Treaty be made compulsory upon the Chinese; as well as the powers conferred under it upon British Consuls be greatly extended. These Tonnage dues now annually aggregate a very large amount indeed; much more than is at all requisite for the purposes to which alone such dues should be applied; and we are, therefore, of opinion that their reduction may very equitably be insisted upon.\n\n## 9 \nWe have now arrived at the last portion of our subject; namely, the Revision of the Tariff. Upon this head it will not be necessary for us to address Your Excellency in any detail, as, regarded in a large and general sense, the present Tariff is a just and liberal one. The articles upon which it presses unfairly are few, of minor importance, and have already been brought by others very prominently to the notice of Her Majesty's Government. We would rather advert here to five measures of general policy, which we esteem to be desirable. The first of these is the abrogation of duty upon all Coal, native or foreign, a proceeding which would prove a boon of great value to the widely extending system of Steam Navigation in China. If the Imperial Government seek to derive revenue from the Coal-mines within their territories, let them do so by means of Rents or Royalties, but let the distribution of the fuel be freed from all impost whatever. The unrestrained re-exportation of foreign Rice may, we think, be most justly demanded by the British Government. But permission to import Salt is a privilege the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "65\n\n1\n\nIV.\n\n14\n\nCORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COLONIAL DEPARTMENT\n\nHONG KONG. lain are an inadequate provision for the spiritual instruction of the British population.\n\nThe military station of Checkchoo, on the opposite side of the island, with some hundreds of British soldiers, is entirely destitute of the services of a chaplain resident among them.\n\nOn my arrival at Chusan, also, it was no common trial to find that during a period of five years, since its first occupation by the British, a body of 600 European soldiers and their families had been without the advantage of a resident Chaplain, and that it was reserved for myself, as the first clergyman of the Church of England, to hold a regular service on Sundays among the military. These 600 men, the sad relics of war, disease and climate, were assembled in the Buddhist temple, converted for a season to the purposes of Christian worship. Numbers had sunk into a premature grave, without the solaces of religion in their dying hour. The French ambassador, during his visit to that island, drew an invidious contrast in my hearing between the total absence for five years of the means of regular religious instruction for the British in Chusan, and the conduct of his own Government, who, in addition to other priests on board the frigate, allowed a private Chaplain for himself among his own suite.\n\nThe specific measure which I beg to recommend to your Lordship is the appointment of at least three additional Chaplains. One is required at the military post of Checkchoo, in the island of Hong Kong, at present without any religious instruction, except the occasional visit of the Military Chaplain from Victoria, at a distance of eight miles, with bad roads, over a mountainous line of country, which in that climate separates the two localities at the ordinary distance of 20 miles in England. Two Consulate Chaplains might be stationed with advantage at the two free ports of Canton and Shanghai, at each of which cities the British community is considerable, and where there are many sailors of the small sloops of war, and the numerous merchant vessels which frequent these ports.\n\n4. The last topic to which I beg your Lordship's permission to advert partakes of a more general character, but is in a no less degree identified with the duties and the interest of the British Government. I allude to the affording of reasonable facilities, by the Consular authorities in the five free ports, to British missionaries in the prosecution of their work.\n\nDuring my exploratory visit and residence at each of the five ports of China, I have enjoyed ample opportunities of intercourse with the natives, and of fully testing the groundlessness of any fears as to the Chinese viewing with alarm or jealousy the efforts of missionaries.\n\nAs a proof of the growing liberality of the Chinese Government, I may recall your Lordship's recollection to the Imperial Edict of universal religious toleration propounded two years ago by Ke-Ying, the Imperial Commissioner, and confirmed by successive supplementary edicts.\n\nBut I can adduce more positive proofs of the more tolerant spirit of the Chinese Government, as seen in the liberal disposition of the local mandarins. In the city of Amoy, I had constant access, with the other Protestant missionaries, to the highest local authorities, without any other official introduction than that of belonging to the missionary body. The five high mandarins of the city and district (two of whom belonged to the dominant race of Manchoo Tartars) gave jointly an invitation to a special entertainment to the missionary body, seven in number, including myself. The highest seats of honour were assigned to us; and on that and various other occasions a full acquiescence was expressed in the benevolence of the missionary work.\n\nI venture to submit this topic to your Lordship's consideration, from the knowledge that in some of the cities in China missionaries have gained a considerable and a rapidly increasing moral influence. I need not point out to your Lordship how important this influence with the intelligent portion of the Chinese may prove to British interests at this important crisis of national intercourse, and therefore how expedient it is that the most cordial relation should exist between the Consular authorities and the missionaries.\n\nThe Right Hon. the Earl Grey,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed) George Smith.\n\nF\n\nON COLONIAL CHURCH LEGISLATION, &c.\n\n15\n\nEnclosure 2, in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning-street, 19 March 1847. I AM directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th January,* in which you bring under his Lordship's notice certain statements and suggestions on the subject of the religious and social affairs of the British settlement at Hong Kong,\n\nLord Grey directs me to express to you his regret that so much delay should have occurred in answering your letter. It has been occasioned by the necessity under which his Lordship has been placed, of collecting some further information explanatory of the real state of the case to which you refer.\n\nI am now to state, that until the receipt of your letter, Lord Grey had not been aware of the existence at Hong Kong, of the regulation that any Chinese is liable to be detained in custody for moving abroad in the streets or public roads after a certain hour in the evening without bearing a lantern, and a written note from his European employer. His Lordship, however, finds that your statement is confirmed by others possessing great means of information on the subject, and he therefore proposes immediately to call on the Governor for an explanation.\n\nLord Grey has attentively considered your suggestions for the establishment of an institution for the education of Chinese, and for making \"adequate provision for the spiritual wants of British subjects in China, military, civil, and mercantile.\" His Lordship directs me to inform you, that looking to the already heavy expense of the public establishments at Hong Kong, he is not prepared to consent to any increase of that expense for those objects, howsoever desirable they may be.\n\nRespecting the condition of the Church of England at Hong Kong, you state that while places of worship raised by the Roman-catholic, and by different Christian sects from Europe and America, and even a Mahomedan Mosque, built by the contributions of the poor Indian Sepoys and camp followers, have risen up with wonderful rapidity; at the period of your leaving China in May last, only a temporary building, almost the meanest edifice in the town, existed as a place for Divine worship, according to the ritual of the Church of England.\" From this statement, Lord Grey cannot but draw the conclusion, that the members of the Established Church have already been taught to depend too much upon assistance from the public, and too little on their own spontaneous exertions, and that to this cause must be ascribed the mortifying contrast which you describe between the efforts which they have made for the advancement of religious worship and instruction, and those of the members of other religious bodies.\n\nI have, &c. The Rev. G. Smith.\n\n(signed) B. Hawes.\n\nNo. 2.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury to Earl Grey.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nAddington, Croydon, 14 December 1848.\n\nI TAKE the liberty of addressing your Lordship, at the instance of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, on the subject of a Bishop for China.\n\nI understand that Her Majesty has been pleased to grant her consent to the establishment of a Bishop for the China Seas, to be styled, probably, Bishop of Victoria, as the capital of Hong Kong.\n\nI am now desired to state, that an adequate fund for the endowment of this bishopric, is in the hands of the Society, and to petition your Lordship, that the necessary steps be taken with the view to the early accomplishment of this object, by the creation of the intended see.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed)\n\nJ. B. Cantuar.\n\nIV. HONG KONG. Encl. 2, in No. 1.\n\n* Page 1\n\nNo. 2. Archbishop of Canterbury to\n\nEarl Grey\n\n14 Dec. 1848.\n\n355---4-\n\nB 4\n\nNo. 3.\n\nF\n\nG\n\nR", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281234, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "gest abould be maintained secure from that dread of oppression, or subje.tion of their affairs to the knowledge of their own cor. rupt officials, which is sure to possess the minds of Chinese residents here.\n\nConsequences of such a step in Chinese Residente in the Colony.-15. If then there be no right in the Chinese Government to ask this concession, and no reason why they should get anything to which they are not entitled, and, at the same time, sound policy dictates a refusal of such a privilege, it only remains, on this head, for Your Memorialiats to assure Your Lordship that it is the unhesitating - conviction of the whole community, of all professions, trades and callings, of every nation represented here, and of the Chinese themselves, that it is no mere chimerical dread of unknown consequences that leads them so strenuously to object. As the natural outlet for the exports of the whole of the South and West- ern portions of China, and as a free port where protection is afforded to property, and where commercial transactions are sub- jest to the requirements of British law, while dealing with merchants of every trad ing Power in the world, a vast quantity of ¡Chinese produce comes here in native craft i which constantly ply between this Port and the coasta East and West of the Colony, which pays such duties or other exactions as the Mandarine along the Const choose to demand from their own people, and abont which traders here kuwathing-every commodity having a price here regulated only by the law of supply and dentand. The Establishment of a Coustil here, sur- rounded as he would be by a staff of Chi- nese officials and employés, would subject this trade to a supervision resulting in the levying of taxes or duties for the Imperial Exchequer, in addition to those paid to the local officials, and which the Government never get; and the result would be that Chinese traders would, instead of resorting to this Colouy as their Emporium and Mart, go to some other place (such as the neighbouring Colony of Macao, as they used to do formerly) where no Chinese officials harass them or their trade, and thus a deadly blow would be struck at the trade and prosperity of this Colony with really no benefit to the Revenue of China, for the goods would still leave China, but not through Hongkong. It is no answers to this to say that duties would not be collecti ed here, as the Chinese officials attached to the Consulate would obtain accurate know- ledge of the goods imported or exported by Chinese traders, and on the departure of the boat outside of the waters of this Colony, she would be seized and detained for the payment of duties or squeez-8, by the Revenue cruisers which, even now, are trying to hem the Colony in-Chinese I enterprise would be crippled here because, through their relatives, family, or property in thing, all wealthy res dents would be amenable to the inquisitorial powers of the Mandarins; they would not dare to embark in trade, and would soon leave the place. Your Memorialists conclude their state- ment as to this olause in the hope that Your. Lordship will not advise ratification.\n\nTranshipment at Hongkong.-16, The 4th clause of the Convention does not in itself exclude Hongkong from being considered as a foreign port, but the regulations agreed to expresaly say \"Hongkong excepted;\" and, as goods under this section only come to Hongkong for the convenience of ship- ment to foreign ports, this exception is unfair, and seems expressly intended to prevent the forwarding of goods to Hong- kong for transhipment. Sir Kutherford Alcock, however, has promised that this shall be favourably represented to Your Lordship.\n\nThe word \"British\" in clause 5.-17. The ! 5th clause presses unduly on Hongkong, by confining the benefit of transhipment of duty-paid goods for a treaty port to such goods as are shipped by British Mer- chants;\" and Your Memorialists have the aasurance of Sir Rutherford Alcock that this was not intended, as the idea was to extend the rights to all duty-paid goods whether shipped by British or Foreign merchants.\n\nThe Port of King Chau.-18. The 6th clause Your Memorialists also look upon as inflicting a very serious and direct injury upon tue trade of Hongkong. The only Treaty Port for the whole of the South and South West of China is Canton, situated about 100 miles up a River, and neither from its geographical position, nor means of access, at all fitted to be the only Channel through which the immense pro- spective, and Vast existing trade cau be car ried on. At present no goods can go to any part of Hainan or the South Western. seaboard, even in native craft, unless they carry a Canton duty-paid \"chop\" or certi ficate, thus compelling every buyer of Cot- ton or Woollen Manufactures, Opium ori other imports, to go and return 100 miles each way more than there is any necessity for, practically almost prohibiting any in- ports from going into consumption in Hai nan and the opposite Mainland except those that are smuggled. This, so far from bene- fiting the Imperial Revenue, positively causes great loss to it. It is of course just as easy for a Branch of the Maritime Cna- toms service to collect Imperial duties at Kinng-chau as at Canton, and if the port were opened, the traffle would be conveyed in foreign bottoms, affording a certainty to the Customs officials of getting duties on goods which, when carried in Chinese craft to ports presided over by venal and corrupt Mandarins, never contribute one cent to the Imperial Revenue. If Kiuug- Chau were opened, then the true interests of China would be served, and when we know that nearly the whole of the imports would flow first through Hongkong as the natural channel between foreign Countries and the vast populations of Hainan and the mainland bordering on the Gulf of Ton- quin, it stands to reason that the abandon- ment of the Port must deprive Hongkong of a large and lucrative traffic and source- of employment for her capital, her vessels and her colonists. It is well known (und admitted by the Foreign officials of the Imperial Maritime Customs) that whit was formerly a large trade, has become, owing to the Ediot as to Canton duty, shops, almost a nominal one, and that immediately on the opening of this Port A very spirited trade would re-appear. Indeed Your Memorialists gathered from Sir R. Alcock that the abandonment of the Port was agreed to by him under a mie taken impression that Your Memorialists were not anxious for that Port to be open- ed, and also because he really thought that the \"favoured uation clause\" in the Treaty would preserve the right to frequent the Port to Great Britain if the other Powers did not give it up; but Your Memorialists, fear that where there is a positive aban- donment of a specified right by one Power, it can only be for any future concessions that such i ower could claim the “favoured nation\" right, as it has, while having the right to open the Port deliberately agreed to abandon it; and it is therefore they urge most earnestly upon Your Lordship that to abaudon the Port already conceded to us is a grave error, and indicative also of a retrogressive policy which the Chinese will readily turn to account; and they would beg mest strongly of Your Lordship not to abandon the Port, but to open it\n\nat once.\n\n272", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "## Testimony of ARTHUR COLE LOGGIN\n\nI saw the mast head light; we saw the side lights. When we shut out the other vessel's green light, the two vessels must have been about four or five ship's lengths apart. When she hauled across us, of course, we opened her green and shut out her red light. We did not starboard our helm until we saw her red light. I saw that if we did not do so, we must strike her right amidships. I could see no one on board the other vessel. I saw no measures taken on the other side to avoid the collision. When she hauled up to cross our bows, the vessel must have been about four ship's lengths off. If any order had then been given to lower all our boats, it would have taken six to seven minutes. This would comprise boats that would carry the whole ship's company. Two boats are always kept ready to lower. They could be both in the water in two minutes. It would not take ten seconds to strike a blue light, as they are always kept ready. This is customary on P. & O. ships. I did not see the other vessel clew up her sails.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. When we passed Kanonsaki, our course was, I think, N. N. W.; but I cannot say exactly. After passing that light, her course was altered to North true. Our course was not altered after that to my knowledge until the helm was ported for the steamer's light. There was an able Seaman and a lascar on the lookout before we reached Kanonsaki light; afterwards, a gunner was put on. When first seen, the Oneida bore half a point on our port bow. When we first saw the Oneida, the Kanonsaki light bore South by East of us, and was about three miles off. When we were abeam of that light, it must have been a mile or half a mile from us. We saw the Oneida's side lights simultaneously. She at no time bore on our starboard bow till after the collision. After the collision, I saw no lights on the Oneida through her stern. Did not hear the Oneida's whistle. Don't know at what time our whistle stopped. I cannot recollect. The shock of the collision was very slight. Our engines were stopped before the collision and remained stopped for ten minutes, I should think. We ported our helm directly we saw the Oneida's lights. I heard no crash as of cutting timbers and so on; it was just a touch and off; still, it was such a touch that I deemed it prudent to go below and see the condition of the vessel. I went below first and then on to the forecastle, and then to the bridge and reported to the Captain. All this was within the ten minutes and while the engines were still stopped. During that ten minutes, I found the other ship's boom, gaff, and piece of her sail. Her boom was under our bow.\n\n## Objection by Mr. BARNARD\n\nMr. BARNARD here wished it to be placed on record that he \"objected to the constitution of this Court as at present formed, because there had been no complaint made by Captain Eyre, or by any of the officers, crew, or persons on board or interested in the British Steam ship Bombay, and because the interest of the owners of the ship or of the cargo do not require it, and no person or persons whatever interested in the ship or the contents thereof have made such a complaint as would warrant and give jurisdiction to any naval court under this or any other act or acts of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, or any of her predecessors; and 2nd, we object to any American citizen being allowed to ask any questions, or cross-examine a witness upon any questions relating to a British ship or British property. We have no objection to any American gentleman watching the case and suggesting any questions in writing through the Court.\"\n\n## Response by THE COURT\n\nThe COURT informed Mr. Barnard that this was a Court of inquiry and not of strict law; and that Mr. De Long had been conducting the proceedings on behalf of the survivors of the Oneida by and with the consent of the Court; in fact, both Mr. Barnard and Mr. De Long appear by permission. The Court is much obliged to Mr. Barnard and Mr. De Long for the valuable assistance they are giving on this occasion.\n\n## Continued Examination of ARTHUR COLE LOGGIN\n\nThis discovery of the boom, gaff, and sail was made during the ten minutes while the engines were stopped, but I did not report this at that time. I only reported the bobstay having been carried away. I only reported the damage done to our own vessel. Directly afterwards, I reported that the piece of sail was on board. I cannot say how much time elapsed between the two reports, but I think it was while I was on the bridge making the first report. The boom was up and down the round of the bows of the Bombay. It had caught in the fluke of her starboard anchor. The gaff was on the starboard bowsprit shroud, extending from there to the cathead. The piece of sail was over the top-mast stay and hanging over the bows. No light was at that time put over the bow. We lowered a light over the bow about twenty minutes, I should think, after the collision, but I cannot say exactly how long a time elapsed. We then discovered that the cutwater, figurehead, and head rails were gone. Cannot say how long it was before we made our mail signals that I suspected the bows. On passing the light ship, we fired a gun, two rockets, and a blue light. The Tiptree responded with a rocket. Don't recollect hearing a gun from the light ship.\n\n## Testimony of RICHARD CONNOR\n\nI am an American. I was born in New York State. I have never been in England. I am a pilot and possess a pilot schooner. I am in partnership with another pilot. I was on the lookout for vessels on the 24th. I boarded the P. & O. Str. Bombay at about 11 A.M. on the 24th instant. I was about 8 miles to the North of Rock Island when I boarded her. I am a part owner of my vessel. No European was on board my vessel when I boarded the Bombay. The Captain asked me if I was a pilot, when I said I was. My vessel is a schooner of about 36 tons. My main sail is marked No. 1. I carried a flag, red and white, the usual pilot flag. My vessel is registered as a pilot schooner at the U.S. Consulate; she is a new vessel. She was registered about the 18th of last month. The 23rd is the first time we went out as pilots with this schooner. I have been a pilot in these waters about 9 months. I have piloted at least thirty vessels into this harbour. I have no certificate as a pilot. There are no licenses here granted to pilots.\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| To Mr. BARNARD | When we first saw the vessel ahead, the Captain said, \"port is the rule of the road.\" |\n| To Mr. De LONG | When the Kanonsaki light was abeam, heading N.N.W. by the compass, we were about a mile and a half distant from it. |\n\nPage 316 \nPage 46", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "322\n\nI could only hear the gong strike once. The order to port the helm was spoken and telegraphed at the same time. There was no order given to steady the helm after I had ported it, nor was there a second order to port the helm. I kept the helm hard a port until the order was given to hard a starboard; and the helm was hard starboard at the time the collision took place. I had been on watch from four o'clock. I can't say whether I had received an order to port the helm, a little before the order which I have referred to or not. The night was dark; I could just distinguish a man from one side of the vessel to the other. \n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. About three minutes before the collision, I heard the engine gong strike and could tell by the vibration that the engines were stopped. It was before I heard the bell that I got the order to port the helm; it was perhaps a minute or a minute and a-half before; perhaps it was two minutes and a-half after I had heard the bell that I got the order to hard a starboard. I immediately obeyed the order. It took about half a minute to change the helm from hard a port to hard a starboard, so that the vessel could feel it; it was about three minutes after I heard the engine-room bell, that the vessels came together. I could not say what course we were steering when I got the order to port, or how the wheel was. I know it was not hard a port or hard a starboard. I only saw the mast-head light before the collision. I should think it was about four or five minutes before the collision that I saw the mast-head light; it bore a little on the port side. I saw it for three or four seconds, and then I did not see it any more. The helm was steady when I first saw the light; it remained steady until I received the order hard a port. I didn't feel the shock of the collision much; didn't feel anything of it. I couldn't hear much crashing as I was right aft. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" sung out from the other vessel twice, one after the other. These shouts were after the vessel got astern. I answered the hail; I said \"halloo,\" the hail was said twice before I could give any answer; the 2nd and 4th officers also answered. I did not hear the steam whistle of the other vessel. I heard no guns from the other vessel. Didn't see the flash of any guns. I heard an order to shorten sail given on the other vessel but no other order. I didn't see anything done in obedience to that order. I didn't see any person on board the other ship. I did not observe anything particular on the other ship. I saw a boat or a part of a boat, but I could not distinguish what it was. I mean by a part a broken portion of a boat: this was either on the poop or hanging to the davits on the vessel's side. I cannot say I saw anything like a breach in the poop or side of the other vessel. I saw a light that came through a port, or something; it appeared to me to be a square port about 18 inches or it might have been more each way. I saw no other light than that one. I couldn't look through that light and didn't see into the vessel.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD.—I did not report that I had heard the order to shorten sail; we answered the call in a loud tone of voice; and the wind was with my voice.\n\nTo the COURT.--My duty at the wheel is to see that the vessel is steered straight. It is my duty to see that the ship is kept on her course when an order is given to steady. I look at the compass to see how her head is. I couldn't tell what course we were steering ten minutes before the collision. I think it was somewhere from N. to N. N. W. I don't know how her head was when she struck the Oneida.\n\n(Signed) \nSAMUEL DENTON.\n\nJOHN WILKINSON, sworn, states—I am 2nd engineer of the Bombay. I was on watch in the engine room at the time of collision. I stopped the engine; this was a minute or a minute and a half before I felt the collision. The next order after that was go ahead easy—as near as I could judge, perhaps four to five minutes elapsed between these two orders. I keep a log-book; there is a slate in the engine room, for incidents of the watch. A rough log is made up from the slate; and this again re-copied into the chief engineer's log. I made those entries on the slate about ten minutes after stopping; it may have been a little longer after; it was about 8 o'clock that evening that I made the entries in the rough log. The collision was light. I did not know it was a collision until we stopped; it took about half a minute to stop the engines. The chief engineer came into the engine room just as I was stopping the engine. The engine bilge pumps are always at work.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG—I have brought the rough log with me, this is it. (Produced) Extract. \n| Time | Order |\n|------|-------|\n| About | Stop 6.15 |\n| About | Easy ahead 6.19 |\n| | Full speed 6.21 |\n\nWe were going I suppose eight knots before the collision. The collision occurred about half a minute after we had stopped. I cannot judge well of the speed of the vessel. I should say that one minute after the engines are stopped, the speed of the ship would be reduced by one-half. I was present when the above entry was made in that book, but I didn't do it myself; the fourth engineer made it. Those two words \"about,\" were entered at the same time, and by the same person I believe. I should say that a vessel going at eight knots would be almost stopped four minutes after her engines were stopped.\n\nTo the COURT.—There is a clock in the engine room. It is at my back as I stand to alter the engines. I felt a light shock at the time of the collision. And I felt a rebound of our vessel. It was after the ship was under weigh going full speed ahead, that I entered the above extract on the slate. The time thereon noted is to the best of my judgment; but I did not look at the clock on receiving the order to stop or easy ahead, or full speed. I should say that I made the entries on the slate about five minutes after the order full speed was given. And this must have been at about half-past 6 o'clock; generally an order to \"stand by\" is given before an order to alter the engines is received. In this instance, there was no order to stand by.\n\n(Signed) \nJOHN WILKINSON.\n\nROBERT SMITH, Sworn, states.—I am bed-room steward of the Bombay. I and the carpenter were pacing the deck forward on the port side just before the collision. I saw the sails of the other vessel. I don't know when the collision took place. I don't remember feeling it at all. The carpenter said there was a collision, and I ran aft that I might not get hurt. I went into the saloon almost immediately after leaving the break of the poop. I saw a light on the other ship, or a square place for the light. Before entering the saloon, didn't notice any other light. Could see the smoke from her funnel. I have no idea how far she was off when I saw her. I saw the foam of the water astern as if her screw was going on. I saw no signals from the other vessel. I heard some one sing out \"Halloo\" on board our ship. I couldn't see what had happened on board the other vessel. I could not distinguish anything to speak of on board the other vessel. I was standing alongside the carpenter; the carpenter and I both ran aft together. I don't know if the carpenter was called away, or if he was standing on the deck when I went below. I don't remember speaking to the carpenter; there was only one first class gentleman passenger.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG—There was one second class passenger. I believe his name is Watson. I am not certain if I saw a table in the other ship. I don't know if I did. I couldn't say what I saw exactly on board the other vessel. I didn't see a lamp but I saw a light. I have no idea what size the place from which the light issued appeared to be. I have seen our own ships with gangway ports. I didn't know but what this might have been a gangway port. I can't tell if I thought it was a gangway port or not; all I can say is that it was a light. I should think that what I saw such as a table or something must have been between decks. I can't tell whether I saw what I thought to be a table with a cloth on it or not. I didn't notice if I saw a chair. I didn't see a chair, nor nothing. I fancy I saw two or three men where I saw the light; or rather part of men. Men standing up. I didn't notice what they were doing. I saw something like wood in the water, but I don't know what it was; whether it was a boat or not I can't say. At the time I saw the light I was standing at the break of the poop. I have no idea how far this is abaft the bridge. I don't know whether I or the carpenter left the place first. I heard no shout from the other ship. I didn't hear her steam whistle go. I heard no gun, saw no flash as from any gun. I only heard \"halloa\" sung out once before I went into the saloon. I did not report what I had seen to any of the officers of the ship.\n\n(Signed) \nROBERT SMITH.\n\nProceedings resumed at 1 P.M. \nAUBREY HAMERTON, 3rd officer, re-called, sworn,\n\nTo Mr. De LONG—I came ashore with the mail. I went into a hotel while ashore, with the chief steward. I don't know Mr. Curtis or Mr. Hiltz. I did not give an account of this collision in the hotel. I was asked about it but said I didn't know. I didn't hear the steward say anything about it. I did not make a statement that we had run into any vessel. One gentleman did ask me if we had stopped to see what damage had been done to the other vessel. I believe my answer was that we had stopped and nothing else. I don't remember being asked why we hadn't enquired into the damage sustained by the other vessel. I did say, \"there was the mistake,\" or words to that effect. I did not say that the \"Bombay's\" bows went into the Oneida, and the I could see some of the officers removing a man hurt by the collision, as I supposed, but that we did not stop but made the best of our way to Yokohama roads. I did not use any language to that effect; all I said was, that it was a mistake.\n\nTo THE COURT.—I did not say to the Captain or any of the other officers at any time, that it was a mistake not to have stopped; it was to a question that was asked me that I replied \"there was the mistake.\" It was a casual answer that I gave, and the fact of its having been a mistake not to have waited did not strike me until the question had been asked me. I think the question asked me was \"why did you not stop by the ship.\" I couldn't say if the answer was made in reply to a question which was put in a manner to make me think that my interrogator was finding fault with me. I did not in that hotel give an account of the circumstances of the collision. I don't know who the person who asked me the question was. I was about three to five minutes at the hotel.\n\n(Signed) \nAUBREY HAMERTON.\n\nARTHUR T. WATSON, sworn, states: I was on board the \"Bombay\" on the evening of the 24th instant; a collision took place on that day. I don't know at what time. I did not witness that collision; I was not on deck but on the main deck at the time of the collision. I didn't know there had been a collision. I felt a slight shock which made me think we had struck on a sand bank. After feeling the shock I ran on to the poop. I saw from the poop a vessel passing us very rapidly; she was quite close. When I saw her she had all her sails set, and her screw was revolving very rapidly. I could see that a place—I suppose you call it the quarter, near the rudder, was cut away; the only thing I caught sight of was what I thought to be a table. I immediately ran abaft the wheel to see what would become of her, and suddenly thought I saw her mast-head light as if she was turning back again to come into harbour. I then ran forward and said, \"Oh she's coming up behind.\"—That is all I have to say. I can't say where what I thought to be a table was—it was not on the upper deck, it appeared to be in the interior of the vessel. In order to have seen it I must have looked through a hole in the vessel of some kind or other. I did not pay particular attention to that hole; it was so sudden, one couldn't do so. It did not occur to me that the hole was an unusually large one. I did not notice the shape of the hole; it was a table that I saw; I saw the legs as I thought; I did not notice the top of the table. I did not see any person or figure of a man near the table. I could not distinguish that any part of the ship was broken; the hole which I saw was a breach in the vessel's side. I cannot give any idea of how large it was. I watched the vessel out of sight. I heard no gun. I saw no flash of a gun. I saw no rocket go up, nor a blue light burned; I had no signal been made, I think I could have seen it from the position where I was. When I thought I saw the mast-head light I didn't notice any coloured lights. I have not been employed at sea. It was through the place which was cut away that the light came. I did not notice whether she had a poop. I didn't see her wheel. I saw nothing fall from that ship into the water. I saw a few broken splinters in the water. I did not notice if she had any boats or not; never having been to sea before I thought it strange we didn't stop. I can't say whether I asked anyone on board why we hadn't stopped. I didn't ask the Captain why we hadn't stopped, nor the chief nor second officer. I can't say that I asked an officer why we had not stopped. We were speaking about the occurrence afterwards on board, and I may have said what I saw. I can't say whether it was on board that we were speaking of what had happened. I can't recollect who were present. When we were talking the only opinion I passed was—that I thought it strange we didn't stop. What I saw did not lead me to believe that she was dangerously damaged. I should certainly have thought it my duty at once to go to the Captain or some responsible officer and tell him if I had thought that the vessel was so seriously damaged that she must sink. I don't know to whom I addressed myself when I said, \"Oh, there she is a coming after us,\" but I don't think any of the officers were there.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD—I saw the American Consul a few days ago at the U.S. Consulate. I was sent for by the U.S. Consul. No one was present when I saw the Consul; he had sent me a verbal message. I believe the message was sent me on Tuesday afternoon. I was not in at the time it came, but was told that my presence was requested at the U.S. Consulate that afternoon, or the first thing the next morning. I did not see the U.S. Consul till Wednesday morning. The message was requesting my presence. The Consul asked me what I saw. I told him simply what I saw just now. He asked me why we hadn't stopped. I said I didn't know. I was not there three minutes. I was not called on any Court of Inquiry at the U.S. Consulate. The light which I saw coming astern of us may have been from a light-house for what I know; I only know that I thought at the time that it was the mast-head light of the other vessel.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—I came ashore in the boat with the pilot and Mr. Angus. I can't say if I said then that it was wrong not to have stayed by the vessel. I went to the International Hotel that evening. I know Mr. Curtis the proprietor by sight. I said on that evening just what I have said now. In fact, I turned round to some one and said, \"we'll go and have a look at that vessel, (meaning the Oneida), tomorrow morning; she is sure to be in harbour.\" I did not make a statement to the effect that I had seen a man through the hole. I did say we had knocked a hole that we could see into. I did not say anything of the sort, that we had knocked her whole stern out of her. I did not hear the Oneida's whistle blow. I heard the Bombay's blow for some few minutes; this was previous to the collision. I didn't hear it after the collision. I did not see any one at all on board the other vessel. The only thing I heard from the other vessel was \"steamer ahoy,\" to which answer was made by two persons on board our vessel, but no reply was received. I only heard \"steamer ahoy\" called once.\n\nI can't give any definite idea of the size of the hole in the other ship. I couldn't answer at all as to how large the hole was. It did not appear to me that I saw a portion of a cabin through that hole. I only saw a part of a table, and I should think that it was a square table. I did not notice whether there was a cover on it or not. In fact, the whole thing occurred so quickly that I could hardly tell you anything definite. I did not see anything on this table. I didn't see any lamp through this hole. I saw no trunks, chairs or anything of that kind. The sails appeared to me to be filled as she passed. \n\n(Signed) \nA. T. WATSON.\n\nROBERT B. CLEMENTS, Lieut. of H.M.S. Ocean, sworn, states. I went on board the Bombay on the evening of the 24th. I boarded the steamer as officer of the guard; and asked to see the Captain. He came out of his cabin; I said to him \"what a long way out you have anchored.\" He asked me whom he might have the honour of addressing. I told him who I was, and that I wanted the senior officer's mails. He said he thought he was quite justified in anchoring so far off, as it was difficult to tell at what distance the lights were. He had never been on the coast of Japan before, and that he was also in the hands of a pilot who had advised him to anchor there; besides that he had cut the quarter off the Yankee frigate in coming up the bay. I then said it must have been the Oneida. I hope she is not seriously damaged, and is she in want of assistance? He said no, he thought not. He had laid to for some time, and he saw no signal denoting that she wanted assistance. He added that it was seeing no signals of distress that he had made up his mind to go on and land his passengers and mails. He said he thought she wouldn't go on, but that she would come back here to repair damages; and that he had got some of her booms and sails on board, and that he must have knocked some of her boats away or something of that sort. I asked him if he was damaged himself? He said that he was, and that the ship was making water, but nothing very serious. After that I proposed that I should go into the saloon and wait for the mails. We talked on different things. Either the doctor or the Captain, I can't say which, said that he could see the lights in her cabins. That was all that took place regarding the collision.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD—There was a midshipman called Stephens in the boat with me. I think he went on deck afterwards, but he was not present during the conversation. A Lieutenant named Leventhorpe was on board the Bombay before me, but not on duty.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—It was between 8 and 9 PM that I boarded the steamer. I did not board her the next morning. I can't say whether the doctor and Captain were both present when the remark was made, that the cabin could be seen into. I don't know whether it was the Captain or the doctor who said it. One of them certainly did, as they were the only two to whom I spoke. I will swear that Captain Eyre said to me, \"I have cut off the quarter of a Yankee frigate.\" He said \"serve her right, she crossed my bows with a starboard helm.\" I said that was a curious thing to do. I hope you are reporting. I know that Mr. Leventhorpe had been on board before me. He told me afterwards that he had informed Captain Eyre that it must have been the Oneida with which the Bombay had collided. Mr. Leventhorpe had left the Bombay before I had arrived. The Captain did ask me to have a glass of brandy and water; it was when I got back to my own ship that I saw Mr. Leventhorpe; and learned from him, that he had told Capt. Eyre what vessel he had run into. Capt. Eyre did not lead me to believe that the Oneida had sustained serious injury. I reported to my Captain that it was a trivial thing.\n\n(Signed) \nROBT. B. CLEMENTS.\n\nTHOMAS H. LEVENTHORPE sworn, states.—I am a Lieutenant on board H.M.'s S. Ocean. I boarded the Bombay on the night of her arrival almost directly she had anchored. I was not on duty; the midshipman of the boat was with me; his name is Henderson. The first officer I conversed with was the doctor. In the course of conversation he asked me what steamer had gone out that evening? I told him the only one I knew of was the American man-of-war Oneida. He told me they had been in collision with a steamer, and that probably that was the one. Afterwards I saw Captain Eyre, and he described the collision to me. He told me he saw lights about half a point on his port bow; that he had ported his helm and was all clear; then that the other vessel had evidently put her helm to starboard and run right across his bows. He also told me that he had turned on the whistle and stopped his engines before the collision. I think I made the remark that she would surely put back; he said \"yes, you will see her before long.\" Somebody said on board that they could see right into her saloon, but I am not sure who it was made the remark. I believe Captain Eyre was present when this remark was made. Several people were there on deck at the time. Mr. Angus was there at the time I know; but it was a dark night and I could not distinguish faces. I cannot swear that the Captain heard what passed. No conversation took place about...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL\n## HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1870\n\nMURDEROUS ASSAULT BY CHINESE ON FOREIGNERS AT TIENTSIN. THE FRENCH CONSULATE AND CATHEDRAL DESTROYED.\n\nThe following was issued from this office as an extra, this morning. The news it contains was conveyed in an extra of the N. C. Daily News, dated Shanghai, June 27, brought down by the S. S. Nile, which put in here last night to land despatches.\n\nNews of a startling nature has reached us from Tientsin. It appears that for several days past there has been a great excitement among the Chinese against foreigners at that place. It was openly said, that the French Cathedral would be burnt and the foreigners exterminated. To a certain extent this is sadly verified. By a special courier via Taku overtaking the steamer Dragon, which left Tientsin on the afternoon of the 21st instant, the news was conveyed that the French Consulate, and French Cathedral were in flames; and that the French Consul, several other Frenchmen, and Sisters of Mercy, had been murdered. H. M. gunboat Opossum was lying at Chefoo when this news arrived, and started at once (on the night of the 23rd instant) for Tientsin. H. M. G. Dwarf leaves Shanghai this afternoon for Tientsin, in consequence of this news, and the French gunboat Flamme will start tomorrow morning. In the meantime the Aspic and Scorpion remain in port; and H. M. Zebra at Nagasaki has been requested to come over.\n\nWe learn by private information, that a meeting was held at Shanghai convened by Sir Ed. Hornby (late commandant of the Volunteers) and resolutions passed thereat, in consequence of which the Volunteers were called out in order to defend the settlement in the absence of the gunboats.\n\nThe steamers Manchu (Russell & Co., S. S. Navigation Co.) and the Appin (Jardine's) were detained in Tientsin to give as much protection to foreign residents as possible.\n\nNo cause is assigned for the murderous assault at Tientsin.\n\nIt is reported that M. Rochechouart, who holds the position of Minister at Peking had been also a victim; but this is not so correctly ascertained as the other facts. One of the victims at Tientsin is stated to be a French medical man, but we have not learnt his name.\n\nThe steamer Nile left early this morning, and we understand that she carries despatches to Saigon from the French Consul here. Among other rumours, it is said that the wife and child of the French Consul at Tientsin also fell victims to the rage of the infuriated Chinese. Mr Robert Hart, it is expected, will at once leave Hongkong for the seat of the outrages. A rumor is also current that Mr. W. H. Lay (British Consul) has been wounded; but this, it is to be hoped, may prove an exaggeration. The statement that Count Rochechouart had been murdered at Peking also appears to require confirmation, though the occurrence of a simultaneous outburst at Tientsin and the capital is not unlikely.\n\nThe steamer Chu Kiang, which left Shanghai at 5 am, on the 1st, arrived this afternoon, but she brings little more than corroborative evidence of the terrible affair and the consequent excitement at Shanghai. The gunboat Diberf was the first ship of war which left for the scene of the disturbances, the two French gunboats following her next morning. Messrs Russell & Co. (agents for the S. S. N. Co.) had placed the Shantung at the disposal of any residents who desired to go to Tientsin. The mail steamer Sunda had been postponed until the afternoon of the 1st, and she may possibly be in this harbour to-night. The Manchu, from Tientsin, was hourly expected in Shanghai, and the greatest anxiety prevailed in that settlement. No reason whatever has yet been assigned for this sudden attack on foreigners in a Treaty Port.\n\nOur latest news from Shanghai is from the Daily News of June 30, which says...\n\nA Ningpo correspondent writes that the native merchants are much disturbed by the news from Tientsin. They fear war may follow, and consequent interruption to trade.\n\nThe Courier of June 29 says—\n\nNo further news has come to hand to-day about the Massacre at Tientsin; and the arrival of the Manchu which is now expected hourly, is looked for with great anxiety.\n\nThe following version, substantially the same, is from the Shanghai Courier:\n\nVery serious news has reached us to-day by the Dragon. The Chinese have risen against the French. An official despatch, the very brevity of which is a significant commentary on its contents, says that the French Consulate, the residence of the Sisters of Mercy, and the French Cathedral were burning at the time the despatch was being written. The French Consul, (Mons. Fontanier,) all the Sisters of Mercy and several other Frenchmen (Missionaries) had been murdered. The steamer Appin and Manchu were detained (well armed) to afford some protection to foreigners. Mr. Lay, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, was collecting all the foreigners together.\n\nIn addition to the above official information, there is a rumor that Count Rochechouart, the French Minister, and some Russians had been killed at Pekin. Immediately on the receipt of this news H.M.S. Dwarf got up steam, and Mr. Medhurst, H.B.M. Consul, considerately issued a circular giving those who have connections in the North an opportunity of writing by her. She left at 4 p.m. Meanwhile some degree of protection would have been afforded to the foreigners at Tientsin by H.M. gunboat Opossum, which started for Tientsin immediately that the Dragon arrived there on the night of the 23rd inst. The French Gunboat Flamme leaves to-morrow morning, and Messrs Russell & Co. have placed the S. S. N. S. Shantung at the disposal of the French authorities as a transport. In view of the departure of the Dwarf, leaving the Foreign Community here without British protection, Sir Ed. Hornby, as the last commandant of the Shanghai Volunteers, has issued a circular calling on all resident members of the corps to hold themselves in readiness should their services be required. Meanwhile we have the protection of the French Gunboats Aspic and Scorpion, and the Zebra has been sent for from Nagasaki. No explanation is given of the cause or origin of these dreadful occurrences.\n\nPage 123", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, JULY 6TH, 1870.\n\n### MASSACRE OF THE FRENCH CONSUL AND OTHER EUROPEANS AT TIENTSIN.\n\nThe following was issued in the form of an \"Extra,\" yesterday morning :\n\nThe steamer Nile from Shanghai arrived last night, and was to start this morning, having left that port on the morning of the 28th ultimo. Captain Wright, who at considerable trouble consented to bring the despatches down, has courteously handed us the Shanghai Courier of the 27th ultimo, which contains the following startling intelligence :~ \n\nVery serious news has reached us to-day by the Dragon. The Chinese have risen against the French. An official dispatch, the very brevity of which is a significant commentary on its contents, says that the French Consulate, the residence of the Sisters of Mercy, and the French Cathedral were burning at the time the dispatch was being written. The French Consul, (Mons. Fontanier), all the Sisters of Mercy and several other Frenchmen (Missionaries), had been murdered. The steamers Appin and Manchu were detained (well armed) to afford some protection to foreigners. Mr. Lay, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, was collecting all the foreigners together. \n\nIn addition to the above official information, there is a rumor that Count Rochechonart, the French Minister, and some Russians had been killed at Pekin.\n\nImmediately on the receipt of this news H.M.S. Dwarf got up steam, and Mr. Medhurst, H.B.M.'s Consul, considerately issued a circular giving those who have connections in the North an opportunity of writing by her. She left at 4 p.m. Meanwhile some degree of protection would have been afforded to the foreigners of Tientsin by H.M.S. gunboat Opossum, which started for Tientsin immediately after the Dragon arrived at Chefoo on the night of the 23rd inst. The French Gunboat Flamme leaves to-morrow morning and Messrs. Russell & Co. have placed the S.S.N.S. Shantung at the disposal of the French authorities as a transport. In view of the departure of the Dwarf, leaving the Foreign Community here without British protection, Sir Ed. Hornby, as the last commandant of the Shanghai Volunteers, has issued a circular calling on all resident members of the corps to hold themselves in readiness should their services be required. Meanwhile we have the protection of the French Gunboats Aspic and Scorpion, and the Zebra has been sent for from Nagasaki. No explanation is given of the cause or origin of these dreadful occurrences.\n\nThe steamship Nile leaves at daylight with a full cargo, including 119 bales of Silk. She goes direct to Suez, calling only at Hongkong to deliver Government despatches relating to the news of the massacre at Tientsin.\n\nCapt. Wright also reports that the greatest excitement prevails at Shanghai, in consequence of this news. There was a further rumor that the whole of the foreign Legation buildings at Pekin were in flames. The news arrived at Shanghai at 2 p.m. on the 27th instant, when the Nile was clearing for sea, and Captain Wright immediately proffered his services to the English and French Consuls to bring down the intelligence to the Senior Officer on this station. He had previously no intention of calling at Hongkong, as he was bound home with a full cargo, a large portion of which was engaged at the high freight of £6, on condition of his making the voyage in 60 days, and for the remainder he was under guarantee not to call anywhere until he reached the Red Sea. This guarantee was waived, however, in consideration of the urgency of the case, but the Nile is still to arrive in 60 days from Shanghai or to lose £1 of her freight. Under these circumstances Capt. Wright's offer to bring down the news must be thoroughly appreciated, utterly disinterested as it is, and proceeding from motives of pure courtesy and humanity. The offer was duly appreciated by the French Consul, who was politeness itself, and full of acknowledgments of Captain Wright's courtesy. The English Consul, on the other hand, was pleased to communicate with the captain through a subordinate, who was good enough to take off three from the list of four distressed seamen going home by the Nile, in consideration of the proffered service. It was impossible to do more, as the last \"distressed seaman\" remains on board to testify in mathematical language to the three-quarters-hearted kindness of British consular officers at Shanghai, in a case in which an hour's delay in delivering the despatches, which none but the Nile could take at the moment, was fraught with danger to the whole foreign community of Tientsin.\n\nOrders have gone to England for the immediate despatch of men of war.\n\n## Enclosure No. 2 in Major-General Stoneral Whitfeild's Despatch No. 447 of 6th July, 1870.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282009, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# CHINA MAIL EXTRA.\n## HONGKONG, 10TH JULY, 1870.\n\n### Tientsin Massacre Confirmed.\n#### THE SISTERS OF MERCY TORTURED.\n\n\"CHINA MAIL\" OFFICE, 8.15 P.M.\nTHE following narrative of the horrible events at Tientsin is from the Courier of the 4th instant brought by the steamer Priam\n\n## THE TIENTSIN MASSACRE.\n(From our Correspondent,)\n\nTIENTSIN, 22nd June, 1870.\n\n...o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st. To show that the attack was premeditated, workmen two miles or more from the scene of action said to me on seeing there, that Englishmen had nothing to fear for the attack was only on the French. Whether the Chinese apprehended immediate retribution or not I cannot say, but hardly a man was to be seen in the Settlement after the first fire took place; on the following day labor was partially resumed.\n\nThe account given in the Evening Courier of June 16th, of proceedings at Nankin, would be an accurate description of the preliminary part of our troubles here connected with missionary matters; the same story of kidnapping children, of the missionaries purchasing them and taking out their eyes for medicine, &c., the same knowledge of the authorities of what was going on, the same (apparent) indifference on their part to the probable consequences.\n\nThe foreign residents were conspicuously displayed here for some time before the massacre. Threatenings of this kind had become so frequent that to a certain extent they came to be treated like the cry of Wolf! Wolf! in the fable, so that when the sad reality did come no one was prepared.\n\nThe first intimation we had of trouble to our friends in the city was the sight of Fire, which proved to be caused by the burning of the French Cathedral and Consulate adjoining, and the premises of the Sisters of Mercy some half-mile nearer the foreign Settlement. Almost immediately after news reached us of the murder of three foreigners; and, a little later, we heard of the terrible deaths of no less than fifteen to eighteen foreigners, all of whom were French, and including the Consul, Fontanier; M. and Madame Thomassin who had only arrived a day or two before en route for Peking; the Chancellor, M. Simon; a Jesuit father M. Chevrier, and, saddest of all, the poor Sisters of Mercy, nine in number.\n\nTo them indeed no mercy was shown: the cruel outrages upon them are horrible even to relate; their clothes are said to have been torn off them, their bodies stabbed and ripped open, their breasts cut off, and also their eyes dug out. To crown all, the Chinese report this morning that all that is left of them are two charred masses, some distance apart, and quite impossible to be recognised. Truly a crown of martyrdom have they received from the ungrateful people in whose service and for whose welfare their lives were being spent here.\n\nM. and Madame Chalmaisin, French, are also said to have been killed while attempting to reach the foreign Settlement. Three Russian subjects, Mr. and Mrs. Protopopoff and Mr. Basoff met with the same fate on the other side of the river close to the Salt Stacks which are near the foreign Settlement, while on their way from the city to the Settlement.\n\nThe above took place about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st. \n\n23rd.-This morning there was found in the river, quite fresh, the bodies of the two Russians before named, man and wife.\n\n* Also, the writer might have added, a well-pen newspaper correspondent. Ed. E. C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282010, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "134\n\nOne of Tang-kwo-fan's lieutenants is now here with an escort of 80 to 100 troops; with no ostensible object. It is somewhat curious that when Tseng-kwo-fan himself was down here last year, one of the reasons given for his visit was his intention to seize the French Consulate, it being Imperial property; and it is also noteworthy that when some of us in 1861 endeavoured to purchase this same property, we were told it could not be sold as it belonged to the Emperor.\n\n24th. The two Russian bodies were buried in the British cemetery yesterday afternoon, and shortly after, the body of the third Russian was found in the river, and was buried this morning. Yesterday the Chinese authorities sent down to the British Consulate five coffins containing bodies which were recognised as those of Mr. and Mrs. Thomasin of the French legation, M. Simon of the Consulate; Father Cheverier and a Chinese priest. M. Simon was so hacked as to be hardly recognisable. Mrs. Thomasin was cut in the back of the neck. She had her clothes on. These bodies, with the French Consul's, six in number, have all been placed to-day in the British cemetery pending instructions from the French authorities, as it was impossible to keep them above ground any longer.\n\nThe bodies of a young couple were found, whose wedding had been celebrated less than a week ago amid great rejoicings. The bodies were stripped, and the young wife, only about 16, had her arm broken and cuts on face and body, and three fingers cut off apparently for the sake of the rings. The freshness of these bodies is supposed to be due to their contact with the salt-stacks where they were killed. They had only been a short time in the water. Another body found at the same time could not be recognised and is believed to be Chinese. Since then, a fourth body found in the water, horribly cut about the head and face, and with part of one hand cut off, was recognised by two French subjects, Messrs. Borel and Coutris, who have made their escape from the city, as being the body of the French Consul, M. Fontanier; his socks also bore the initials H. F. This body was also stripped; at the time he met his death, he wore the Consular uniform. Yesterday, H. E. Chung-How said the Consul's body was one of seven taken out of the water and put in coffins. These bodies are to be kept until the arrival of the French authorities from Peking, expected here to-day or to-morrow.\n\nMr. and Mrs. Stamman, and Mr. Meyer, came down to the settlement this morning under an escort from Chung-How; they are believed to be the sole survivors of the foreigners who were in the city; twenty or twenty-one are dead or missing, and of these, twelve are women, nine sisters, Mrs. Thomasin, Mrs. Chalmaisin, French, and Mrs. Protopopoff, Russian. It appears the French Consul, on the attack being made, had gone to Chung-How's Yamen, and had induced Chung-How to accompany him to the Consulate. On their way thither, they met the Cheh-hsien, and Chung-How's story is that the Consul fired at the Che-hsien, whereupon the mob rose and cut him down, killing him on the spot. Mr. and Mrs. Thomasin were killed inside the Consulate. Mrs. Chalmaisin got on her horse and escaped, her husband being killed in his doorway as he was coming out. Mrs. Chalmaisin returned to the house in the evening in Chinese dress, but it seems the omission to change her foreign boots led to her detection, and she was slaughtered in the street. Full particulars of these transactions may never be known, but already a good deal of light is thrown on the affair from various quarters. We hear from a distance in the country, of ten days' journey, that proclamations were up against Catholics on account of their malpractices; but as the people could not discriminate between Catholic and Protestant, they were advised to take them all to the Yamen for examination.\n\nOn the 24th, the body of a Chinese woman was found in the river; by the ornaments about her neck, she was a Catholic, and believed to have been a teacher in the sisters' school. She was much cut and disfigured; the body was buried with the other six.\n\n26th. This morning, six coffins were sent down from the city, the contents of which, on examination, proved to be the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmaison; of the remaining four, two contained bodies half burnt, one of which had evidently been in the water and had apparently been partially eaten; the second was in much the same horrible state; the remaining two were burnt to a cinder; in one, only the skull and a few bones remained. I forced myself to look upon these six, and hope I may never see...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "During the months \n\nShanghai, during that \n\n71.0 \n\nVessels can clear for land and Australia, and England \n\nI shall instruct him to forward a copy of his report to your Excellency \n\n80 \n\nI have gone. (Signed) Thomas Francis Wade \n\n**Expy.** \n\nHey. Sir, \n\nf. 7. 401 \n\nBritish Consulate, Foochow, \nMarch 22nd, 187- \n\nIt was formerly the practice at this Port to send to Hongkong all distressed British seamen needing to be sent home to the United Kingdom or elsewhere, but the tenor of recent instructions is to forbid our doing this and instead to direct us to wait for opportunities \n\nThe Assistant Secretary, \nMarine Department, Board of Trade, \nLondon:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "## British Consulate, Amoy, 22nd March 1870\n\nSir,\n\nIt was formerly the practice at this port to send to Hong Kong all distressed British Seamen needing to be sent home to the United Kingdom or elsewhere, but the tenor of recent instructions is to forbid our doing this, and to direct us to wait for opportunities of sending such men home direct from this port; I beg to point out that these instructions are unsuitable to the circumstances of this port.\n\nThe Assistant Secretary \nMarine Department \nBoard of Trade \nLondon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8]", "content_text": "# Hony Mony 24th July, 1871\n\nNo 362.\n\n**Colonial Secretary (Hamble. J. Gardiner Austin)** to **How Majesty's Consul P. I. Hughes, Esyr)** Canton.\n\nCanton - Disturbances in the Districts adjoining\n\nAcknowledges his Letter devoting attention to and reports that H. Ms. Gun \"Thistle\" has been despatched to Canton. Further assistance will be rendered, if required.\n\n1\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo 47\n\n**Mr. Consul Hughes to Mr. Austin**\n\nH. M. Consulate Canton, 26th July 1871.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 362 of the 24th instant, in which you inform me that my report of the state of affairs at this Port was sent off at once to the Commodore, by whom the Thistle was sent here without delay, and His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor will be quite prepared to give us all available support in the event...\n\nThe Honorable J. Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 286372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "content_text": "I regret I would follow, but on other grounds.\n\nI agree the proposition of the Wade on the grounds that, in the 1st place, Hong Kong is British Territory, and consequently the levy & collection of duties by a foreign power therein is unconstitutional. In the next place, I believe it would be considered an infringement of the right of Sovereignty, and no concessions could compensate for that. Besides, there would be constant series of squabbles, complaints, & perpetual appeals to the Supreme & Magisterial Courts.\n\nI am inclined, therefore, to think that both for political & social reasons, Mr. Wade's project is not tenable.\n\nThat the Chinese Govt should feel aggrieved that the Island was ceded to Britain has been a thorn in our side, is but reasonable; any expression of material sympathy from them, you doubtless would lead to improved relations with us. The Chinese Govt has, however, cultivated resources for the establishment of a Chinese Consulate at Hongkong under a Director, and Foreign Customs officers.\n\nI believe that Chinese junks and vessels should be in strict accordance with national law, and in accordance with...\n\n \nPage 327", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "806\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872]\n\nhere in a week, calling upon the Government to avenge the death of fifty-six Loochewans who were killed, without provocation, at Minca Island by people of Formosa. Four men-of-war are reported to be preparing to depart for Formosa as soon as the Loochewans arrive.\n\nguided the proceedings and decision of H.M.'s Consular Court at Kobe, that your Excellency should take such measures as you may deem requisite to prevent any recurrence of such proceedings, and to remove the discredit which appears to us to attach to the British Consulate at Kobe in consequence of its action in this case. We have the honour to be, your obedient servants,\n\nAn Italian gentleman lately proceeded to Koshiu, accompanied by three Japanese. On their arrival, the authorities, having elicited from the servants that the foreigner had no permit, and that he had come for the purpose of secretly purchasing silkworms' eggs, sent him back to Yokohama under escort.\n\nA meeting of the subscribers to Christ Church took place at the British Consulate. The object of the meeting was to decide on certain definite instructions to be sent to those gentlemen in England who are in correspondence with the Foreign-office, in respect of the chaplain's appointment at Yokohama. Mr. Consul Robertson occupied the chair, and opened the proceedings by reading the correspondence that had passed, and said there were two points on which the gentlemen at home wished to be assured before appointing a candidate for the post of chaplain. They were—First, the length of time that the appointment would be made for, and, second, the amount of salary the community would guarantee. A discussion took place on the matter, and the meeting adjourned, on the following motion by Mr. W. G. Howell, seconded by Mr. M. Smith:—\"That, in view of the financial position of the church, which does not seem to warrant any such extraordinary expenditure as would be involved by sending for a chaplain from England, the committee appointed to nominate a successor for Mr. Bailey be requested to stay further proceedings at home for the present.\"\n\nA dinner to the Consular Corps was given by Mr. Oye Tak, the Acting Governor. One of the head officials of the Foreign-office is shortly to start for Korea, with the object, it is stated, of ascertaining what the ideas of that Government are in relation to Japan.\n\nThe ex-Loando policemen who volunteered, in answer to an advertisement inserted in the papers at the time, to accept service as guards for the British Legation in Japan, in troublous times, when the safety of the Minister and minor officials was by no means assured, are to be dispensed with as no longer necessary. Notice has also been sent by the Government stating that guards for Legations furnished to the several Legations will in future not be supplied.\n\nHUDSON, MALCOLM AND CO. versus RANGAN.—Mr. F. V. Dickins appeared for the plaintiffs, and said that the present was a motion to determine the priority between two bills of sale. It appears that about a year ago Mr. A. G. Thompson, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., and living at No. 75, gave a bill of sale over the movable property contained in those premises to W. Rangan, who had the bill of sale duly registered. Shortly after this had been effected, Thompson removed to the premises No. 219, taking with him the property already under bill of sale to Rangan, with his consent. Application was then made to Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co. by Thompson for another loan on the same goods. No notice having reached Mr. Spence, who was acting for Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., that a prior bill of sale had been given, he granted the loan required, and took the bill of sale from Thompson. Mr. Rangan, landlord of No. 219, receiving no rent, put in an execution, took possession, and was about selling the property to satisfy his claim, when an injunction, which stopped the sale, was obtained from the Court. Rangan now affirms that the property mentioned in the second bill of sale is identical with that of his, and that therefore he has a prior claim. The question was therefore one of a purely legal character. Mr. Dickins then quoted the Bill of Sale Act of 1854 in support of his case, and argued that the property in the first bill of sale, described as \"situated on Lot 76,\" was not described in such a manner as to separate it from any other property of the grantor.\n\nHis Lordship said that the fact of removing the chattels could not invalidate the first bill of sale, the property having already passed into the possession of Rangan. Had the grantee of the second bill of sale examined the register, he would have found that a previous bill of sale had been given for a similar amount to Mr. Rangan. He should therefore dismiss the motion.\n\nTHE CASE OF MR. COUSENS.\n\nThe committee appointed at the late meeting at the Club, respecting the imprisonment of Mr. Cousens, have drawn up the memorials subjoined:—\n\nTo his Excellency R. G. Watson, Esq., H.B.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires in Japan.\n\nSir,—We have the honour to hand your Excellency herewith a copy of the Hiogo News of Sept. 4, containing a report of the trial before H.M.'s Consul at Kobe of a Mr. Cousens, for an assault on a Japanese coolie, and also the report of a committee of three gentlemen appointed by a meeting held at the United Club here on the 7th inst., to investigate the matter.\n\nMEMORIAL OF OTHER THAN BRITISH SUBJECTS.\n\nWe, the undersigned residents of Yokohama, of other than British nationality, desire to testify our cordial sympathy with our British fellow-residents in the views they have expressed about the imprisonment of a Mr. Cousens at Kobe for a trivial assault, and also express our opinion of the extreme propriety of the investigation of the affair which they request.\n\nThis report was adopted by a second meeting held at the United Club on the 14th Sept., and ordered to be presented to your Excellency, and H.M.'s Chief Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\nWe, the undersigned British residents of Yokohama, respectfully request that your Excellency should order a thorough investigation into all the circumstances of this case, and should you consider that the principles of law and justice have not been duly observed...\n\nCHINA.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nWe have advices from this port to the 29th Sept.; the P. and O. mail, from London August 9, arrived out on the 15th Sept. The following items of news are from the North China Herald:—Excessive dullness has marked the present season in China: a market, in fact, can scarcely be said to exist for either imports or exports, each still simply seeking to fill up the requirements of the moment. There is no doubt that, both amongst Chinese and foreigners, there is a deep feeling of want of confidence. The former, influenced on the one hand by the large stock of imports which they fear may at any moment be placed suddenly on the market, and on the other by reports of disaster from the ordinary consuming districts, have ceased to be buyers, while the latter, influenced by continual unfavourable advices from Europe, where a crisis of some kind seems imminent, are in that uncertain state of mind that they know not, to-day, what circumstances may lead them to do next. Superadded to all this, a local tightness in the money market has more or less influence on the state of trade. This has had the effect of seriously raising the rate of exchange, and thereby interfering with the export trade. Altogether, matters at the present moment wear an aspect more unpromising than they have done for some three or four years, and unless some change takes place, we fear will result in serious loss.\n\nA notification has been published by the Officiating British Consul, Mr. Alabaster, inviting the assistance of the community in forming a complete collection of the silk manufactures of this district for the London International Exhibition of 1873. The variety of Chinese silk-piece goods, such as crapes, gauzes, silks, satins, and pongees, must be immense, but of these only a few kinds at present find a market at home, owing to the shopkeepers being either in ignorance of their existence or not knowing how to set about getting them. We believe it is intended to attach to the specimens, which will be exhibited in case portfolios, besides particulars of the length of the pieces as manufactured, the average cost, and other information specified in the notification, the names of those from whom they were obtained.\n\nMr. Joseph Haas, Interpreter to the Austro-Hungarian Consulate, resumes the duties of Assessor at the Mixed Court for the U. S. Consulate-General; Dr. McCartee, who has held the position of Interpreter to the Consulate-General for some months, having left Shanghai for Japan. While we may regret that we lose by Dr. McCartee's departure an able sinologue and an experienced official, we feel that the energetic and painstaking manner in which Mr. Haas formerly discharged the duties, ensures that they will continue to be well fulfilled.\n\nThe efforts made to get up an International Eight-oar race, Scotch v. English, for next regatta of the S.R.C., have failed, the English members having been obliged to withdraw. Though of considerable numerical strength, the English membership can at present barely furnish forth an eight of sufficient calibre and experience in rowing for such a contest, and defections in the team chosen have necessitated an intimation to the Scottish eight that the event cannot come off. An eight-oar race will still form part of the present programme, however, the Scottish eight having given a challenge to all the members of the Club who are of other nationalities.\n\nA cricket match, the Club Eleven v. Racket Court, has been played. On the first day's play, it looked a \"moral\" for the Club, which got 168 in the first innings, while the Court lost seven of its best wickets for 29. The wickets were pitched again the following day, when the Racket Court made its score for the first innings up to 44, and then went to bat again. This time it made 195 for six wickets, when the game had to be left off. Mi-ho-loongs v. the World is announced.\n\nA match between the Mih-ho-loongs have had a company drill, when about thirty men turned out. We understand that a regulation has been passed to take off the rolls of the company the name of any member who misses two consecutive drills, unless sufficient cause for absence is shown. We believe the esprit of the company is strong enough to stand this discipline; and it is certainly hard on men who have devoted time to drill, to have the good effect lost on parade by the awkwardness of the undrilled.\n\nOperations for the raising of the wreck of the Lismore are in active progress.\n\nThe Annie Porter, sunk in the former endeavour to raise the Lismore by buoying her to two vessels, will be blown up, and the attempt next made to raise the steamer by means of apparatus specially imported for the purpose. The Hopewell and Aracon were placed in the Old Dock on Monday last; the former to repair the damage sustained in the collision with the Annie Gray, and the latter for a general overhauling previous to loading teas for London. The Annie Gray is still at anchor in the river, in a disabled condition, being minus her foremast.\n\nMr. T. Fitzroy Rice will proceed to Japan by the next French mail steamer, having accepted an appointment with a view to organising a police force in that country.\n\nA fire broke out at Messrs. Reynolds and Co.'s godown in Wyndham-street, among some loose straw. The alarm was promptly given, but the fire was extinguished by the assistance of about a dozen gentlemen on the spot, before the engines arrived. The damage done was not of any magnitude.\n\nThe twelfth performance by the Wind Instrument Company has been given, and was largely attended. The night was mild and pleasant, and the music a culmination of the general excellence which has characterised the performances during the season. Among the passengers by the last American mail, homeward, was the Austro-Hungarian Minister, Chevalier Calicé, who will be absent from China for twelve months.\n\nOur Hankow correspondent writes:—We have been favoured, within the last few weeks, with a Post-office; a privilege which, I believe, will be highly appreciated by a good portion of the community. The duties of Postmaster are discharged at present by E. L. Oxenham, Esq., of H.M.'s Consulate. A Masonic Lodge has also just been opened here; and if report be true, it is likely to have a distinguished band of members enrolled in its records. Hankow, just now, presents an ample field for the exercise of any such moral influence as Freemasonry. Let us hope its claims as a moral force will be duly verified. A fire has occurred in which the ice-house, which belongs to foreigners, alone was burned. It is undoubtedly a case of incendiarism.\n\nThe following items are from the Shanghai Courier:—The prospectus of the new company of which we have heard for some time as being in course of organisation to compete with the Pacific Mail Company—The China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company (Limited) has appeared; Messrs. Russell and Co. are the agents, and 2,000 of the shares are reserved for allotment in China.\n\nWe are glad to observe that the Canton Daily Shipping News has at length blossomed into a full-blown newspaper.\n\nH.I.H. the Grand Duke Alexis and suite, accompanied by H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy and H.E. the Russian Admiral, visited the Sing Ping Theatre. The piece played immediately on the arrival of the distinguished visitors was that of \"The Eight Genii,\" congratulating the Queen of Heaven on the anniversary of her birth. This piece was not very interesting, but occupied only a very short time, the object being to show respect to the distinguished spectator. Eight actors, representing the eight Genii, came out and worshipped in pairs in front of the stage. The next piece played was the State Installation of Soo Chun, an eminent politician who flourished in the Chow Dynasty, into the office of Premier or Chief Councillor for the Confederation of the Six States.\n\nThe prospectus of the China Trans-Pacific Steam Ship Company has been circulated by Messrs. Russell and Co., as agents, at Hong Kong, and inviting subscribers to the capital. The Directors announced are:—Edward Henry Green, Chairman; W. Wetmore Cryder, E. M. de Bossche, W. J. Alt, Edward Cunningham, Alexander Grant Dallas, Gilson Homan, with power to increase their number to fifteen.\n\nWe learn that on the 25th Sept. the engines of the frigate launched some months ago at Kaou-Chang-Menon Arsenal, were at work under steam for six hours. Everything has been found in the most satisfactory state, and the powerful machinery was started and went steadily on without the slightest hitch; the result being that she is authoritatively pronounced ready to proceed on her official trip.\n\nThe Italian Consul is about to take a census of all Italian subjects resident or travelling in China, and accordingly requests all such to bring or send to his Consulate, verbally or in writing, particulars regarding themselves under twelve different headings, such as—Name, surname and parentage, place of birth, age, education, religion, how long they have left Italy, &c. &c.\n\nThe first pontoon for the free ferry has been placed in position on the north side of the Soochow Creek, opposite the north end of Gnaomen-road. The abutment of the ferry on the southern side is also approaching completion.\n\nHONG KONG. Dates extend to the 5th Oct. The P. and O. mail of the 23rd Aug. arrived out on the 1st Oct.\n\nA ball was given at the City Hall by the Hong Kong Club, in honour of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis, and went off with much success. His Imperial Highness, accompanied by his suite, and his Excellency the Governor, Lady Kennedy, and Miss Kennedy, arrived shortly after ten o'clock, and the Grand Duke led off the first quadrille with Lady Kennedy. Among the guests present were Admiral Possiet and the officers of the Svelland, and of the other Russian men-of-war in harbour, Sir Brooke Robertson, the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, and other members of the Local Government. Dancing was kept up with energy until a late hour, his Imperial Highness affording much gratification by his courteous and genial demeanour. The decorations were very tasteful, and the arrangements generally very good.\n\nArrangements have been made for the delivery of a series of excellent lectures at the St. Andrew's Hall, in the City Hall Building. Several very interesting subjects are on the programme, the first lecture being Dr. Legge's reminiscences of life in China, and there also being a lecture from Dr. Eitel on Feng Shui. The proceeds of the lectures, for the series of which a fee of $5 will be charged, will go to the City Hall Library. We are confident that this valuable addition to our intellectual amusements will be well supported, and are glad to hear that H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy has promised to give every assistance, and will be present at the first lecture.\n\nA correspondent at Macao calls attention to a new feature in the coolie trade, which is worthy of notice. It appears that arrangements are being made for the shipment, in an Italian steamer, of a large number of coolies to Costa Rica, a Republican state to the North of Panama, and stretching between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The object with which the men are being sent is understood to be to assist in building a railway. The difficulty, however, is that Costa Rica has no relations either with Portugal or China, and consequently the men will be without even the moderate amount of protection afforded to the emigrants to Peru. It is understood that such an arrangement would not be countenanced by the Portuguese Government, and that the Superintendent of Emigration at Macao has protested against the step, but it appears that the Governor has not yet felt called upon to intervene. The place to which the men are being sent is described as a most difficult country, and the coolies will have great hardship in reaching their destination, whether they land on the Atlantic or the Pacific side.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe directors, in submitting to the shareholders a statement of the company's accounts to the 30th June last, are pleased to be able to report most satisfactorily on the progress of their business, the net premia taken during the first six months of the present year amounting to Tls. 143,066.68, against Tls. 116,493.32 for the same period of 1871.\n\nThe losses paid, it will be observed, amount to Tls. 97,107.00, the great portion of the same belonging to last year, to provide for which a sum of Tls. 77,536.30 was brought forward from the 31st December, 1871. After payment of the said losses, of all current expenses, and of the half-yearly interest dividend to the 30th June, and after writing off the balance of Messrs. Trautmang and Co.'s remuneration, a sum of Tls. 86,821.17 remained at debit of working account, to be carried forward.\n\nThe net Premia earned from the 1st July to the 30th Sept. are estimated at Tls. 85,000, while the losses and claims reported to date, beyond those paid previous to the 1st July, and expenses on treasure salved, ex P.M. steamer America, amount to Tls. 42,000.\n\nMr. Framjee Hormusjee resigned his seat on the board on his departure from China, and the selection of his successor engages the attention of the directors.\n\nSIAM.\n\nBANGKOK.\n\nThe Siam Advertiser has the following:—\n\nHis Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs gave an evening party at his residence, in honour of the King's birthday, to which most of the European residents were invited. The attendance was large, and dancing was kept up till early in the morning. The residence of the Minister, it is said, was brilliantly illuminated, and some of the Siamese nobles performed quite gracefully their parts in the dances in which they participated. For three successive nights the natives vied with each other in illuminating their residences, and on these occasions many of these places had a very fascinating and fairy-like appearance.\n\nA dinner was given in the palace to some of the Princes, and a dinner was given to prominent Siamese officials, and to some of the Europeans in Siamese employ. This dinner was served in a new and beautiful hall in the palace. His Majesty honoured his guests with his presence, and dined in the same hall at a separate table. These demonstrations on the part of his Majesty indicate the good will of the young King to foreigners.\n\nThere is now a rumour afloat that two loads of lead pieces came to Siam not long since; one of these loads was given as a bribe to some prominent nobleman, which secured for them an entrance into the country. The rumour does not indicate whether these vessels were square-rigged vessels or native-rigged craft, nor do they indicate the person who was bribed. We have no means of knowing whether this rumour is true or false; it may be wholly false; it may be partly true. This is true, however, there is at present a panic about the lead pieces; those who have many on hand are ready to sell them at a depreciated value, and many of the petty traders refuse to take them as change.\n\nPage 807\n\nNov. 18, 1872.]\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n203", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "content_text": "...taken too much to drink. We wandered into the Country when sober again we made the best of our way to return.\n\n...we boarded the \"Avon\" but found that she had just left the fort, we were immediately arrested and conveyed to jail and from thence to the British Vice Consulate at Lingayen, the Governor of the Province looked after us from there and we were sent to Manila, overland.\n\nDuring the first three days we had nothing whatever to eat and we could only obtain a little water by asking for it. Conducted along, as we were, we were guarded by five soldiers, our arms were bound together with cords the previous night. We had been placed in the stocks by a Spanish Sergeant who the next morning looked before his Captain, who immediately ordered him to release us from the cords with which we were bound. We had been relieved from the stocks the previous night by a Spanish gentleman that came in; we do not know the names of any of the places we passed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294515, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 483, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "# CSC.No. 3680.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nHong Kong. 8th December, 1874. Received 8th December, 1874.\n\nThe Attorney General (**Hon^ble^ John Bramston**) to The Colonial Secretary (**Hon^ble^ I. Gardiner Austin**)\n\nEllis v. Mitchell- Concurs in the judgment of the Full Court in the case of -\n\n## THE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, DEC. 1, 1874.\n\n### SUPREME COURT. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. ELLIS. MITCHELL ON APPEAL, December, 1st 1874.\n\nThe following is the judgment of the Full Court in this case.\n\nThe Chief Justice Sir John Smale, said :— Our decision in this appeal having been for some time come to, we handed to the Registrar our concluded judgment, and by our direction he gave it out on the 7th of November last.\n\nThat decision was in the following terms. We have fully considered all the facts in this case and the very able arguments which, on the part of the appellant, Mr Kingsmill submitted to us. The respondent did not appear.\n\nWe are of opinion that the appellant has failed to shew that the decision in the Summary branch of this Court is wrong. It is our duty therefore to dismiss this appeal. The respondent has incurred no costs, we say nothing as to costs.\n\nSome questions as to the duties and jurisdiction of Consuls have arisen in this case to which we should wish to advert, but as these questions arise out of this case, rather than lead up to our decision, we purpose at a more convenient opportunity to refer to them. It seems to us that a somewhat exaggerated notion as to the duties and jurisdiction of consuls in this Colony is prevalent.\n\nThe Chief Justice further said :-The grounds and reasons for the decision in this case were very carefully considered and conferred on between us. We were agreed in the conclusion that the appeal must be dismissed. In order that the parties might not be kept longer in suspense, we directed the decision which I have just read to be given out by the Registrar on the 7th November, as I have already said.\n\nThere seems to have been a grave misapprehension that this case came before Mr Justice Snowden as an appeal from the decision of the Consul of the United States. It was not so. From the first it was treated by the learned Judge as being untouched by decision, and, indeed, as a matter entirely ultra vires the Consul of the United States.\n\nTrue it is that a discharge of the plaintiff from the ship, and an account taken in the presence of the Consul of wages earned, were produced and relied on by the defendant, the master of the ship, as an answer to the plaintiff's claim; but it was held in the Summary branch of this Court, upon the evidence before it, that in no way was the Consul acting or intervening judicially, either as to the discharge, or as to the account. No claim for unlawful dismissal had been raised before the Consul. It might have been properly raised before the proper judicial tribunal of and within the United States; but no evidence was adduced to shew that that authority was vested by the law of the United States in the Consul here. Even if it had been so vested by any such law of the Union, it required the force of a treaty, and of an Act of Parliament, or local ordinance, to enable the Consul to exercise any extraterritorial judicial power within British territory.\n\nAlthough some instructions to the Consul were produced to the Court, no Act of Congress was produced, nor was there any evidence that there was any such Act, or common law power in a Consul.\n\nAccording to Chancellor Kent's Commentaries, Vol. 1, p. 50, and seq. \"Consuls are commercial agents...\n\nIn some places they have been invested with judicial powers over disputes between their own merchants in foreign parts but in the commercial treaties made by Great Britain there is rarely any stipulation for clothing them with judicial authority, except in treaties with the Barbary powers. And in England it has been held that a Consul is not strictly a judicial officer, and they have there no judicial power.\" He cites Waldron v. Coombe, 3 Taunton, 182. The words of the Chief Justice Mansfield there are, \"The Vice Consul is no judicial officer.\" At page 51, the very learned Chancellor proceeds \"No Government can invest its Consuls with judicial power over their own subjects in a foreign country without the consent of the Foreign Government founded on Treaty.\"\n\nAt page 62 he says.—“It is likewise made their duty (i.e. of Consuls) where the Laws of the Country permit, to administer on the personal estates of American Citizens dying within their Consulates &c.” And in note (b) he says,\" American Consuls cannot take cognisance of the offences of seamen in foreign ports, nor exempt the master from his own responsibility.\" He cites Ware's Reports (American) 387. And to conclude all he says, at page 59, \"The Consular convention between France and this Country (i.e. the United States) in 1778 allowed Consuls to exercise police over all vessels of their respective nations within the interior of the vessels, and to exercise a species of civil jurisdiction by determining disputes concerning wages, and between the masters and crews of Vessels belonging to their own country. The jurisdiction claimed under the Consular convention with France was merely voluntary, and altogether exclusive of any coercive authority, and we (i.e. the United States) have no treaty at present which concedes even such consular functions.\"\n\nWe quote the 9th edition of Kent's Commentaries (1858). We have before us the valuable work of Judge Bouvaine, The Law Dictionary, the 4th edition of 1872, and in it we find nothing to vary all that Chancellor Kent asserts.\n\nParsons' Law of Shipping, published in 1869, is to the same effect.\n\nOne quotation from Parsons' vol. 2, p. 56. He there says, \"a discharge (i.e. of a seaman), when made in a foreign port, is required to be made before the Consul; but the payment of wages already due is not.” \"And this to such an extent that the learned author adds **and the Consul has no right to charge a commission for witnessing the settlement,\"** in other words, he has nothing to do with the settlement of the wages due; a fortiori he has no authority in reference to damages for breach of contract, or otherwise between the master and the seaman.\n\nNow if the Consul has no such authority, the authority must be somewhere, and it cannot be contended upon any grounds of which we are aware, that this Court has not the fullest authority over all such disputes.\n\nIt is quite clear that the legislature of this country can by statute or ordinance give extraterritorial powers to Consuls, but as all such powers are in derogation of the Royal prerogative, all such laws must be construed strictly.\n\nIt appears to us that Ordinance No. 4 of 1850 has no bearing on the question before us. It relates to cases of desertion from ships and to nothing else.\n\nOrdinance No. 6 of 1862 is prohibitory; it says that no British seaman shall be discharged elsewhere than at the Harbour Master's office, and that every seaman discharged from a foreign ship, represented by a Consul here, \"shall within 24 hours of being discharged at the office of his Consul, or Vice Consul, produce at the Harbour Master's office a certificate of his discharge,\"\n\nNow this is not an enabling statute and it gives no power to any Consul which he had not before. All it does is to assume that every discharge of a foreign seaman will have been given at the office of the Consulate of his country,\n\nBut for legislation the discharge of a seaman is a matter between master and seaman only.\n\nNo treaty has been produced, no Act of Parliament or Ordinance, other than those above cited, has been brought to the notice of this Court. In the absence of any such we are driven back to the International Law as laid down by Chancellor Kent p. 51., that the Consul of the United States is not a judicial officer, \"that they have no judicial power,” and, page 59, that there is no treaty with the United States which authorises Consuls to exercise a species of jurisdiction by determining disputes concerning wages between masters and crews of vessels belonging to their own country in this Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "citizen, and that it was not with the good that mouth that he was registered at the Consulate as a British Subject.\n\nI am your most obedient hurable servant, Sister\n\n* phong trong F.O. No. 11886 ce or Individual.\n\n(Subject.) DOMESTIC. 391 Office Inquiry of Gov - as to whether Kirch of Cinnam is to be recognized\n\nDate. 18757 Jet: 28 5.0. can give at previous Paper. 1678 07 14175-II & S 6877)\n\naky hax ad ar Destefardent Savareser authoritative answer theets at presente (Minutes.)\n\nI. J. Danncepte I should not ask the India Office, but should wait until Wade reports. EWR Oct 29.\n\nThis does uit helf Gokart Sienin us I do ustice tach the holes fui forr It is fantially F.. question\n\nA sit in for them to tell us what the fontion The King of Arman is What he desenes any hands beyond such Le I de met lucr it convicturation at our tr is for our own winterent pun menute concour on 10528.\n\nWhat can the Index Office krand", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "2\n\nstreet is all but impassable from the depth of mud, but near the fort shingle has been strewn on the road, which is a little improvement upon the usual state of things.\n\nHaiphong is the highest point to which vessels drawing fourteen feet can ascend the Cua-cam, and for the present is the shipping port of Hanoi, the capital of the Province, which is situated upon the Songkoi or Red River, about 60 miles distant in a direct line, and 145 by the water route. From the extensive works under construction, it appears as if the French intended it to be the anchorage for foreign vessels; but the Red River, which debouches into the sea about twelve miles to the southward of the Cua-cam, is a fine stream, with a rise and fall in the freshets of from twenty-six to thirty feet, although at this season of the year it is very low; in fact it reminded me of the Yangtze Kiang, bars and sandbanks blockading its approaches from the sea. When well surveyed, I can imagine no greater existing difficulty in its navigation to Hanoi than the Yangtze offers to Hankow, and we know how well that has been overcome. I do not therefore see the utility of the works now being prosecuted at a great expense at Haiphong, but there may be reasons for it unknown to me.\n\nHaiphong is connected with Hanoi either by the River Cua-cam or by canals, the most available of which I have mentioned as having its entrance at that place. After proceeding about twenty-three miles by this route, boats turn into another canal, and, after going some seventy-seven miles, enter the main river, the Songkoi or Red River, and so on to Hanoi, distant about forty-five miles. The water in these canals at this season is very low, and rises but little with the tides of the two rivers which feed them. During the summer freshets they are deep enough for steam launches or small steamers drawing four or five feet, or perhaps more.\n\nAt Haiphong there was little to be seen and not much to be learned, for what business there is is done at the capital, Hanoi, where the natives and the Chinese merchants reside. At one time I almost despaired of being able to reach the latter, for of native passage boats there are none, decked or covered over at least, and the distance was too great to attempt it in the \"Egeria's\" small steam-cutter. I found, however, a trading steam-launch called the \"City of Whampoa,\" which I succeeded in chartering, for I felt, unless I reached the capital, the object of my visit to Touquin would fail. I was therefore glad to hire her, indifferent as her accommodation was.\n\nCaptain Castle, the commander of Her Majesty's ship \"Egeria,\" and myself were most kindly and hospitably received by M. Turc, the French Consul at Haiphong, the Commandant of the fort, Major Dubeaux, and M. Gres, the Director of Customs. The former gave me all the information I required respecting the trade of the country, and its resources; but frankly said it was still in an incipient state, and in the hands of Chinese at Hanoi; and whether it would develop into importance depended chiefly on the communications with Chinese Yunnan being re-opened. He furnished me with a list of the principal articles of merchandize imported and exported viâ Haiphong, and a return of the exports therefrom from the 15th of September, 1875, to the 12th of April, 1876, showing a value of 198,914 t. 4 m. 6 c.; of imports there being none. Copies of these documents you will find annexed to this Report.\n\nThe Customs at Haiphong are under the control of a French officer, M. Jules Gres, with the title of Inspector; but there are three or more Annamese, calling themselves Inspectors and sub-Inspectors of Customs. I called on these officers at the Custom-house, and was most politely received; but they gave, or could give but little information regarding the trade of the country, but expressed their desire to see English merchant-vessels come to the port. I replied, that it depended a good deal upon the Annamite Government, for if merchandize or produce, either import or export, was saddled with heavy interior duties, as I believed was at present the case in Tonquin, the prospects of a trade were bad, for no merchant would come to an unprofitable market; that a large trade was good for the Government and people of a country, as it brought money into it, and increased the Customs revenue; and that without perfect freedom no great results could be anticipated.\n\nThey replied, that as regarded inland duties, it was true they at present existed, but would shortly cease to be levied, in accordance with the terms of the French Treaty; but they had been farmed to a Chinese firm, and the agreement had yet a year to run.\n\nI replied that I was glad to hear it, and advised them to keep out of Chinese hands, and to look to foreign merchants for the interests of trade; for the Chinese, from their bribing propensities, disorganized the local officials, in order to secure a more advantageous position than foreigners, who would not do this. I had reason to believe afterwards, that they referred to the inland duties on the Yunnan route, and not to those of the interior generally. Their names were:-\n\nLuong van-tan, Sub-Inspector of Customs.\n\nLo tue, Director of Customs.\n\nNguan van-sze, Sub-Director of Customs.\n\nPetrus Trueong Vinhky, Interpreter.\n\nOn the 10th instant, accompanied by Captain Castle, I left in the steam-launch for Hanoi.\n\nThere was but little to be seen of the country, the banks of the canal being too high; but from what I saw, it appeared to be fertile, and planted with maize and sugar-cane, sweet potatoes, and other products of these latitudes. On debouching, however, into the main stream, the Songkoi, or Red River, a better view was obtained; and here the bamboo and other trees, with villages and fields, made together a scene of much natural beauty, and gave evidences of a high state of cultivation. I had been informed that little or no boat or junk traffic would be seen, but I found a fair amount of it; and from the stake-nets and boats employed, there is evidently a large supply of fish; rafts of wood and bamboo were frequently met; and altogether there were fair evidences of a contented and well-to-do population.\n\nAt this season, taking from December to May, the Red River (Songkoi) is at its lowest, enormous stretches of sand-bands lining the stream, and points of them jutting almost into the centre. About May the melted snow and ice from the mountains of Upper Tonquin and Yunnan come down and the river rises rapidly, attaining a height of thirty feet, and very frequently carrying away the banks, and flooding the country, to the great destruction of life and property. We passed some extensive works being prosecuted to repair an immense breach which last year's freshets had made, and all along the river and the canals preparations were being prosecuted by banking up and supporting the bunds. Annam evidently labours under the same mistake as China in the treatment of her rivers. Instead of dredging the channel, which year by year fills up with alluvial deposits, sand and clay brought down from the highlands, the authorities bank it up, and so in the course of time the bottom of a river is raised above the level of the adjoining land, and if it makes a breach in the bund during the freshets, the whole country is inundated and becomes a vast lake. Such is the cause of the inundations on the Yangtze, and notably that of the Yellow River in China, and evidently also of the Songkoi, or Red River, in Touquin.\n\nThe approach to the city of Hanoi, the capital of Tonquin, is very fine, a turn of the river, which is here from bank to bank about a mile or more in breadth, brings into view the Town and the French Settlement which is under construction like that at Haiphong, with the barracks and Consular buildings under erection thereon. The city rises gradually from the river, and embedded in trees and foliage and seen on a bright and sunny day, has a charming appearance. We anchored off the landing-place at 10:30 A.M., on Monday the 10th, and went on shore at once to call upon the Comte de Kergaradec, the French Consul, who lives in the Annamite Examination Hall, at least a mile and a half from the river, but finding it impossible to get palanquins for hire, Captain Castle and myself called at the house of the Bishop, Monseignor Pergenier to borrow them. Here, while talking to him, M. Aumoitte, Chancelier of the Consulate came, saying that M. Turc, the Consul at Haiphong, had sent a message overland to inform Comte de Kergaradee of our intended visit, and the messenger had arrived only an hour before us, and chairs were coming to take us to the Consulate. These duly arrived and we went on.\n\nOn reaching the Consulate I was received by M. de Kergaradec with great courtesy, and found he had prepared rooms for us.\n\nDuring the forenoon I had a long conversation with M. de Kergaradec regarding the condition of affairs in Tonquin, which he very frankly explained. He said the political Treaty of the 15th March, 1874, concluded with the Annamite Government was fairly good, but the commercial one of the 23rd of November of that year was a failure. No provision having been made to regulate the transit dues on produce destined for the open ports, with the exception of those en route to and from Yunnan, consequently the Annamite Government, when called upon to act in accordance with the Commercial Treaty, replies that it is prepared to do so as soon as the frontier route to Yünnan is cleared of the Chinese bandits who hold it and levy black mail upon all that passes, but as regards the provinces the Treaty does not apply, and rest their argument upon the last section of the IInd Article; that it was certainly an oversight on the part of the framers of the Treaty, if the intention was to equalize the transit...\n\n227", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "4\n\n10\n\n5\n\n228\n\nup\n\nto\n\ndues or annul them altogether, for it placed a power in the Annamite Government to cripple foreign trade with the provinces and confine it to the Songkoi River the borders of Yunnan. Such, the Consul said, was the present position. The Government was most obstructive and throw every difficulty in the way, and nothing but great firmness and saying, \"I will have this done,\" effected anything; that this disposition was exhibited from the moment Hanoi, and the other places captured by Lieutenant Garnier, were surrendered, and, as this was done before the Treaty was signed, the Annamite Government refused to ratify it, and some time elapsed before they would; that when the French soldiers, of which there are 100 at Hanoi, were first quartered there, the Annamite Mandarins wanted them to be confined to the limits of the Consulate, and would have made a prisoner even of himself, but he resisted, and so in like manner objections were made to every request; that it was far from his wish to make a display of force, but if there was not a detachment of marines in the Consulate, it is impossible to say to what lengths the Annamite Mandarins would go, and that probably he would be made a nominal prisoner. He instanced a late case:\n\na Tonquinese, who had opened a shop for the sale of European goods, hoisted the French flag over his door, and was instantly arrested by the police, thrown into prison, and finally sentenced to be beheaded. All applications for his release made by him (the Consul) were unavailing. He represented that to execute the man for hoisting the French flag was an insult to that nation, but no notice was taken of it, and finding that the prisoner would certainly be decapitated unless he took some strong measures for his release, he went to the Futai's palace with a detachment of the marines and told him he should not leave it without the man, and thereupon he was surrendered. All this, however, was very disagreeable, but it was forced upon him by the authorities. This feeling, however, was confined to the Government and the authorities, for the people were perfectly indifferent and friendly in the extreme. I asked M. de Kergaradec what means he saw of surmounting this, and he replied, nothing but a change of dynasty would be effectual, and to that the Tonquinese were strongly in favour, for they had never been reconciled to the suppression of the Tonquinese dynasty and the annexation of their country by the Annamese, and were prepared to throw off what they considered a yoke at any favourable opportunity and restore the ancient family of the \"Ly,\" of which some members still remained, and that he hoped, on the death of Tudue, the present reigning sovereign, who was prematurely old, a dynastic change would be made. Such was the feeling of the Tonquinese, M. de Kergaradec said, and when the citadel of Hanoi was captured by Lieutenant Garnier, as hereafter mentioned, above 10,000 of them expressed their readiness to join him; and some did, and were afterwards beheaded for it, and others had to fly when the citadel was returned to the Annamite Government. The account he gave me of Lieutenant Garnier's proceedings will be given in detail hereafter.\n\nSuch is an outline of the first conversation I had with the French Consul, and subsequent ones were much to the same purport. I gather, therefore, that the presence of the French at Hanoi and in Tonquin generally is viewed with extreme distaste by the Hué (Annamite) Government, who lose no opportunity of giving expression to it. Indeed, M. de Kergaradec said that the position of M. Rheinart, the French Envoy at the Court of Hué, was far from satisfactory, and no means were left untried to render his position as uncomfortable as possible. I think it, therefore, exceedingly probable that the present status quo will not last, and that sooner or later the French will assume, what they have not yet done they say, a protectorate of Tonquin, which means a nominal sovereignty of the country, or even go a step farther, for they are evidently at issue with the Annamite Government, and chafing under what they seem to consider its insulting tone.\n\nWhether the Annamite Government has reason to look upon the French as having forced themselves into Tonquin and enforced a Treaty upon it which places a portion of its fiscal revenue under French control, is a question to be looked at from an unbiased point of view. I saw and heard in that time enough, however, to convince me that whether right or wrong in their first proceedings the French will probably have to go on, and when matters assume that phase, it is useless questioning how they were or are brought about; and viewing it thus it would not, I think, be cause for surprise if they encouraged a restoration which would separate Tonquin from Annam and restore it to the independence it had in 1802 when conquered and annexed by Nguyên Auh, known as Gialong, the King of Annam, and replace one of the ancient dynasty of \"Li\" upon the Throne with whom better terms could be made. Be that as it may, I heard from good authority before leaving Canton, that Vice-Admiral Krantz, the Governor of Saigon, and who negotiated the Commercial Treaty with Annam, being dissatisfied with its results and with the position of the French in Tonquin, had gone to Paris to consult with the Ministry upon the situation, and at Hanoi I heard he was on his way back. But I also heard that the Tonquin question was not looked upon with favour by the French Government who feared complications arising from this naval conquest, and hesitated to relieve the Admiralty of its responsibility in the matter.\n\nThe principal Annamese authorities at Hanoi are, the Tong-duc, or Viceroy, and the Chuan-Phu, or Futai. M. de Kergaradec asked me if I would like to see them, or at least one of them, as the Tong-duc was ill, and I said I would, so my cards were sent. And the Chuan-Phu shortly after called upon me, and I remembered having seen him at Canton when he came to have an interview with the late Viceroy Juilin. He reminded me of it, and mentioned several circumstances, and seemed glad to see me. He brought the Tong-duc's card, with his regrets, that he was too ill to leave his Yamên. Nothing, of course, but a complimentary visit passed, and in the afternoon, accompanied by M. de Kergaradec, Commandant Chapotot, and Captain Castle, with a guard of honour of French marines, I returned his visit in the Citadel. The Annamite Yamêns, or palaces as they call them, are much the same as the Chinese. An Annamite guard of honour lined the courtyard, and the Chuan-Phu came to the door to receive us. After some conversation he expressed a hope I was pleased with my visit, and remarked I had come a long way to see Hanoi; and I replied that having been to Hainan to open it to British trade under the Treaty, I had crossed the Gulf of Tonquin to pay the Representative of the French Government at Hanoi a visit, England and France being on the most friendly terms, and that was my sole object. He then inquired whether there would be much trade at Kiung-chow, and if English vessels would come on from thence to the Tonquin ports? I answered they certainly would do so if the Annamese Government were favourable to foreign trade. He then said he wished to show me his troops and elephants, and we accordingly went to a parade-ground close by of large extent, where there were about 2,000 Annamese soldiers, under arms, and two elephants in front, which, when we were seated, advanced, knelt down nine times, and saluted. The troops then went through sundry manœuvres with great precision. They were well dressed, but badly armed with old flint-lock muskets, spears, and swords. After this took my leave.\n\nWe then inspected the Hall of Ceremonies in which the Kings of Annam receive investiture from the Emperor of China. It was here that Lieutenant Garnier had his head-quarters after his capture of the citadel on the 20th of November, and in a plot of ground in the rear he and his four comrades were buried when killed on the 21st December, 1873.\n\nThat part of Hanoi where the citadel is built is somewhat higher than the other quarters of the city, the ground rising gently from the banks of the Songkoi to the height of about 180 feet above the level of the sea. A brick wall about 3 feet thick and 12 feet high, comprising twelve bastions connected by curtains, surrounds the citadel which forms a perfect quadrilateral of some 3,600 feet on each side. This wall is supported by a plain which at places rises gradually from the interior of the citadel, whilst at others its inner side falls perpendicularly.\n\nL\n\nThe height of the plain varies also a great deal, for at some places the besieged can be hidden entirely beyond the upper part of the wall, while in others they are half seen from the outside. Inside the citadel are the houses of the Governor and other high officials.\n\nThe citadel is girt at about a distance of 25 feet with a deep ditch, containing water, of an average width of 60 feet. Five gates give access to the citadel, one in the middle of each side, with the exception of the south side, which has two openings cut through the walls near the corner bastions; they may be called the south-eastern and south-western gate. The doorways are about 15 feet wide and are closed in with strong wooden gates. Above every gate stands a tower or guard-house.\n\nIn front of each gate is a redan, that is, two walls a little lower than the city ones, the faces meeting at an angle turned towards the country. These redans are also encircled with ditches which run into the moat of the fort, a gate connected by a bridge with the city or the fields adjoining is opened through the right face of each redan. Inside the redans small houses and barracks are inhabited by soldiers, and from the middle of the \"gorge\" of the redans strong three-arched bridges allow a passage across the moat to reach the gates in the main ramparts. It is the work of French Engineers employed by Gialong, the King of Annam, after his conquest of Tonquin in 1802.\n\nIn the interior of the citadel, besides the Government buildings and some\n\n[608]\n\nterre plain\n\n11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300066, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "Shanghai, 15th March 1877.\n\nReceived\n\nRood James Thomas\n\nto\n\nRight Reverend\n\nBishop Burdon, D.D.\n\nHongHong\n\nJamine in China -\n\nAppeal for aid towards the relief Fund of -\n\nEnclosure no Im Adiminist I. Gardiner Austin's Despatek Ro 63 of 28th March 1877.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1877.\n\nAN APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRESSED CHINESE IN THE NORTH.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"CHINA MAIL.\"\n\nNetherlands Consulate,\n\nHongkong, 20th March, 1877.\n\nDEAR SIR,-I have been requested by His Excellency the Netherlands Minister in China to have the enclosed Circular, asking for help from Netherlands Subjects here und at Outports for the distressed Chinese in the North, published in the Local Papera, if those will kindly assist therein; and I shall therefore feel obliged, if you can ren-der this service to the good intentions of His Excellency.\n\nI am, Dear Sir, Yours truly,\n\nLUDWIG BEYKE,\n\nH. Netherlands M's Consul.\n\nNETHERLAND LEGATION IN CHINA.\n\nTo His Netherland Majesty's Consuls and Supjects in China, Japan, the Philippines, Hongkong, Macao, Cochin-China, Siam, Straits' Settlements and India,\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nIt was pretty generally known that during the autumn of last year various parts of the Provinces of Shantung and Chihli had suffered from a drought, which would result in more or less distress from the scarcity of food that must necessarily follow, and indeed symptoms-in themselves grave-began to be manifest as winter approached, though only trifling as compared with what has occurred.\n\nTowards the middle of November regular communication from reliable sources in the interior of Shantung ceased, and native report was the only source of information as to the condition of the suffering province. It appears that, in the interim, matters were becoming daily more and more aggravated, and that the aid given by the Chinese Government towards the suffering districts, proved not to be sufficient, so that urgent appeal was made to the people of other provinces and the foreign communities in China.\n\nAbout the 25th of January communications were again opened with the coast, but unfortunately the first letter, coming through Chinese hands, only reached its destination long after subsequent accounts which confirmed the worst fears and depicted a state of unutterable distress. The word which now reaches us says that thousands are already dead of starvation, and thousands more are starving.\n\nThe principal scenes of these sufferings in Shantung are eight hien, viz: Liu-ku, I-tu, Chang-lo, Weihien, Lo-ngan, Show-kwang, Ling to and Poling. Of these Lin-ku suffers most and gets 10,000 taels in relief, from the 46,000 taels granted, for all, by the Government; but though the distribution of gruel has doubled, yet the suffering has more than doubled. The people have eaten up the little crop they got in the autumn and now are in the direst plight, and their cry is no longer for rain, but for food.\n\nWith reference to the extent and degree of sufferings the following details will give an idea. A moderate hien contains about 1,000 villages. Villages of 500 families report 300 persons dead of starvation; villages of 300 families, 100 persons, and so on. One village in Liu-ku had 180 inhabitants in it last summer; now there remain 99, 40 are dead and the rest gone away.\n\nThe course of the distress seems to be that as soon as the corn is all eaten, they resort to the husks; then potatoe-stalks, elm-bark, turnip leaves, acorns and grass seeds gathered in the fields. When these are all done, they pull down their houses, sell their timber, eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the roof, and the dried leaves, which they usually burn as fuel. Thousands eat fuel leaves, and thousands more die because they cannot get them. Then they sell their clothes and children. Having no more clothes many take refuge in pits built under ground, to keep themselves warm by the foetid breath of the crowd—a course which is bought dearly. For the east suburb of Ching-chow city there are four such pits. One third of the number, 240, originally put in them, died within six weeks, and yet no sooner is a corpse carried out than a crowd is struggling for the place. All this has wrought a great change in the spirit of the people. Late in the autumn they were strong and daring, and although life and property were then at their mercy, no popular disturbance of any kind has taken place. Now the fare they have had for many months has broken their spirits, and they are quiet and submissive to their dreadful fate. Starvation by inches faces these unfortunate people, and deputations of old men, who come to beg relief, weep like little children before you, when they find there is none to be had. Not a day passes but one must refuse to many who ask it, perhaps the last bit they would have eaten.\n\nThe Chinese Government and the people of the other provinces do what they can, but the calamity is too great to be met by ordinary means. There is a Government distribution of gruel to the value of six or eight cash per person per day. Many have lived on nothing else for two months, and are getting so weak that young men of twenty years cannot walk three miles for it. If it is so with youth, how must it be with the infant and the aged? Even though the gentry have in many places doubled the Government aid by their contributions, yet it is estimated soberly that there are districts in Liu-Ku, where \"half the people will not live to see the wheat crop ripe, if no support comes from outside. To all this there is added the one capital aggravating circumstance—the depreciation of the land to about eighty per cent below its normal value. Next comes the fixing of an upward limit for the price of grain, thus preventing the influx of supplies from neighbouring provinces. There has been no such famine as this in these parts for 90 years, since the 51st year of Kien-lung (A.D. 1786). The number of lives saved and orphans rescued will only be limited by the amount of money placed at the disposal of the distributors. Thousands may be tided over the famine at $4.00 per head. Who would not like to be the deliverer of fifty or a hundred human beings from starvation, where nothing but money is to be given? These are the heartrending accounts which reach us here daily. This is not pleading for charity to the poor, but for the ransom of their lives.\n\nI therefore take the liberty to appeal to the Netherland Consuls and my countrymen in this and the adjacent countries to give a helping hand during this exceptional famine and distress in the two above-named provinces of China. The Netherland Consuls at Shanghai and at Chefoo will receive all gifts collected by His Majesty's Consuls at other ports in China, Japan, the Philippines, Hongkong, Macao, Cochin-China, Siam, the Straits Settlements and India, and hand these collections over to proper persons in the interior for distribution, of which an account will be published in due time, in the local papers of Shanghai, for the information of those who have responded to this appeal on behalf of our starving fellow-creatures in China.\n\nI have the honor, etc.,\n\nJ. H. FERGUSON,\n\nH. N. M. Minister-Resident and Consul General in China.\n\nCHEFOO, 1st March, 1877.\n\n394", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300987, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "here interferes considerably with ~ \n\nConsulate work, and is \n\na \n\ntash \n\n4. from \n\nonly \n\nboo \n\nwhich both of us would be glad to be relieved.\n\nI have yo\n\n(ligued) Dr. Hower,\n\nCopy1.\n\nA. A. Annesley Esq. to Lt.. Air HS Parker Kets.\n\nkir.\n\nStiago.\n\n114\n\nAugust 111. 1877\n\nWith reference \n\nreference to an extract \n\nof a despatch from the Postmaster General at Hong Kong to your \n\nwhich \n\naddress \n\nyou forwarded to me in order to ascertain the opinion of the Foreign Community, at this port as to the practicability of transferring the British Postal Agency service to the \n\nJapanese Postal Office, I have the honor to Enclose herewith copy of a \n\nletter I have received on \n\nthis subject \n\nDir\n\nHarry\n\nS. Parkes Ken\n\n1.\n\nLe\n\nfrone", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302422, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 583, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL\n## HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1878\n\nIT must be confessed that the protest of the Governor of Macao we published last night caused us unmixed astonishment. A more unnecessary exhibition of patriotism we have seldom witnessed. The history of the affair is as follows. Several firms in this Colony presented a petition to Mr Hennessy complaining of certain interferences on the part of the Chinese Customs' officials with the export of gunpowder, by junks, to Macao. His Excellency the Governor replied in due course through the Acting Colonial Secretary to this petition, the words used in his reply being as follows:\n\n\"I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, and to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has been in correspondence on the subject of the petition which you forwarded on the 12th April last with the British Consulate, Canton, and that he finds that it is impossible for the Hongkong Government to interfere respecting the import gunpowder to Macao, inasmuch as the Canton authorities consider Macao to be part of China, and the import of munitions of war into China is subject to stringent regulations.\"\n\nThis reply of Mr Hennessy was not intended for publication, and it found its way into the public press without official permission or cognizance. On the same day as it appeared an absurd report was ingeniously put into circulation to the effect that the Chinese intended to resume possession of Macao! There was, of course, not the slightest foundation for the rumour, but it answered its purpose of directing attention to the memorial and to the unfavourable reply of Mr Hennessy. It also resulted in drawing the unhappy protest in question from the Governor of Macao.\n\nThe complaint against Mr Hennessy in the matter is that it is stated in his reply to the memorial that after correspondence with the British Consulate at Canton, he finds that it is impossible for the Hongkong Government to interfere respecting the import of gunpowder to Macao, inasmuch as the Canton authorities (Chinese) consider Macao to be a part of China, and the import of munitions of war into China is subject to stringent regulations.\" Now, is Mr Hennessy to be blamed for stating that he finds, on reference to the representatives of Her Majesty at Canton, something cannot be done, because the Chinese authorities consider Macao to be a Chinese port? If so, a greater measure of condemnation must be poured on Sir Brooke Robertson and the British Government for making similar statements in more direct and stronger language. Hardly a blue book on the Blockade Question can be consulted without some reference being found as to the treatment of Macao as a native part by the Chinese authorities. Earl Carnarvon has himself referred in his despatches to certain advantages enjoyed by Macao, through the Customs officials dealing with it as a Chinese port. And yet no sooner does Mr Hennessy state that the Chinese regard Macao as a part of China than this hubbub is raised.\n\nAt the present moment the Chinese authorities are levying duties in accordance with the native instead of the foreign tariff right under the noses of the Macao officials, on the openly professed grounds that the port is a native and not a foreign one. What, then, does our local contemporary mean by referring to the reply of Mr Hennessy as a \"startling one,\" to say nothing of his bolstering up the ridiculous canard that the Chinese Government were about to resume possession of the peninsula. \"The claim put forward by the Chinese Government to the Holy City at this juncture,\" says our contemporary, \"is exceedingly annoying to some of the Hongkong merchants, as it is calculated to stop a considerable branch of trade!\"\n\nApparently Mr Hennessy is not to be permitted to state in a document not intended for publication, what British Consuls and the British Government do not hesitate to express in blue books, printed and circulated, to some extent, for the benefit of the public. The following is, for instance, an extract from a despatch from Sir Brooke Robertson to Earl Carnarvon, appearing in a blue book, presented to Parliament the year before last:\n\n\"The Chinese Government still consider Macao to be Chinese territory, it having been taken by force from it in 1840. Now Macao has a considerable native trade with the coast places, and the Customs authorities discovered that junks clearing for Macao paid the \"nei ti shui,\" or export duties, but not the \"nei ti shui,\" or import duties, or the \"siao bao,\" because the Portuguese had proclaimed it a free port, and exempt from Chinese jurisdiction.\n\nThis was intimated to the Chinese traders and hongs there, and they were called upon (by the Chinese authorities) to pay \"nei ti shui\" or import duties with the \"siao bao\" on the grounds that Macao was Chinese territory and a Chinese port, which they refused to do, and Macao was in consequence blockaded, and junks making for it were seized and compelled to pay or be confiscated.\n\nYou will observe the distinction made between Hong Kong and Macao, the former being treated as a foreign Possession and therefore coming within the operation of the Treaty Tariff, and the latter as Chinese territory, and therefore subject to the Chinese Customs Tariff.\n\nThe only excuse we can assign for the preparation of this elaborate, or rather, these elaborate protests, on the part of the Governor of Macao is that he misunderstood the drift of Mr Hennessy's letter. The Portuguese Government is able to vindicate its own rights in regard to Macao, and obviously so long as it chooses to wink at the open treatment of the peninsula as Chinese territory by the native authorities, England can do nothing in the matter, especially in the absence of a treaty. It is no doubt to the commercial advantage of both Macao and Hongkong that the Chinese authorities should treat the former as a native instead of a foreign port, and accordingly levy duties under the native tariff. Any way, there is no use blinking the question that the Chinese do continue to lay claim to Macao, and act openly at Macao in accordance with that claim, while it is absurd, under these circumstances, protesting against Mr Hennessy's saying as much, especially when higher British authorities than he have repeatedly made similar and even stronger assertions.\n\n## \n**Translation of a letter from the Governor of Macao**\n\ntadas as palavras de ther jnerem que no sention de pest corroborava com o seo. crclavecito voto as suportas pretenções das Authorivares de Cantão, são crroucas por saha não as não as perfilha.\n\nAgradecendr à forma Lenk frompta com que se lignon refutar havia inexacto na aproveits a opportunidade para reiteran a rotestos da minha mais elevada Emsiteração\n\nTeos Suarte a West Palacio do Governo te Mincas 22 de Julho de 1878\n\nI Governada & leacas, Suit Extraordinario de e Ministro Plenipotenciaris de L.M. F. junto as Cortes on Thina, Japão e Siam.\n\n(Signed) Charlos Augenis Corcia da Silvon\n\n## Page 579", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318619, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "# PREMISES IN VICTORIA IN WHICH THERE ARE WATER-CLOSETS\n\n| No. | WHEN FITTED UP | Premises | Occupant/Owner |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 31 | Uncertain | Praya Central, Offices | Messrs. D. Lapraik & Co., Messrs. Falconer & Co. |\n| 1 | 8 | Brought forward | |\n| 7 | 27 | Queen's Road Central, Store | |\n| | \" | \" Offices | |\n| | \" | \" Medical Hall | |\n| 25 | 37 | Wyndham Street, Club Germania | |\n| 21 | 37 | Daily Press Office, Hotel de l'Univers | |\n| 22 | 77 | Hollywood Road, No. 9 | |\n| | \" | \" No. 7 | |\n| +3 | | Giage Street, No. 17 | |\n| | $1 | Gough Street, Central School | Head Master |\n| 72 | 35 | Arbuthnot Road, Residence | Dr. Young |\n| | | Magistracy, Jack, Residence, Duart | First Clerk, Superintendent |\n| | | Upper Albert Road, Government House | The Honourable P. Kyric, The Governor |\n| | | St. John's Place | Dr. O'Brien, Government Officers |\n| 27 | 12 | Lower Albert Road, Government Offices | |\n| | 17 | Albany, Residence | Mr. G. L. Tomlin |\n| | 29 | Albany Terrace, No. 1 | The Honourable F. Snowden |\n| | \" | \" No. 3 | Lient. Friend |\n| | \" | \" No. 4 | Mr. H. Stolterfölt |\n| | 27 | Seymour Road, Seymour Terrace | |\n| | | Castle Road, Woodlands | Mr. C. Hermanu |\n| | | Mosque Terrace, Residence | Mr. C. Chapeau |\n| | | Caine Road, Italian Convent | |\n| | | \" Residence | Mr. A. Coxon |\n| | | Spanish Procuration, Residence | Mr. J. Squier |\n| 21 | | Kingsclere | Mr. J. A. Smith |\n| | | Japanese Consulate | Mr. Lowcock, Lessees |\n| | | Residence | Mr. A. dos Remedios |\n| | | Peel Street, No. 19 | The Rev. F. Saintz |\n| | | Shelley Street, Club Lusitano | Mr. H. L. Dalrymple |\n| | | Praya Central, Harbour Master's Office | Mr. E. R. Belilios, Consul |\n| | | Hospital Road, Government Hospital | Sir John Smale |\n| | | Boubam Road, Fairlea | Dr. Adams, Health Officer |\n| | | Praya West, Gas Works | Dr. Ayres, Colonist Surgeon |\n| | | Queen's Road Central, Stag Hotel | Officers Commissariat Department, Committee |\n| | | Seymour Road, Idlewild | Harbour Master |\n| | | Wanchai, Naval Hospital | Superintendent |\n| | | Queen's Road East, Commissariat Offices | Mr. A. G. Aitken |\n| | | North Barracks | Mr. A. Newton |\n| | | Messrs. Eça da Silva & Co. | Mr. J. Cook |\n| | | China Traders' Insurance Co. | Dr. Murray |\n| | | Mr. Th. Koffer | Naval Authorities |\n| | | Committee | Military Authorities |\n| | | Mr. R. C. Wilcox | |\n| | | Mr. V. Favre | |\n| | | Mr. Stainfield | |\n| | | Messrs. Framjee & Co. | |\n| | | Messrs. Asgar & Ismail | |\n\n## TOTAL NUMBER OF WATER-CLOSETS\n\n182\n\nThe Military Authorities have also Latrines which run soil into the drains, at--\n- The Victoria Barracks, 1\n- The Wellington Barracks, 2\n- The Murray Barracks, 1\n\nTotal: 4\n\n## NOTE\nThose marked \"Uncertain\" were, I believe, fixed before I joined the Department, and several probably many years ago when the buildings were erected.\n\n## SUMMARY\n- Water-Closets, Private: 13\n- Colonial Government: 131\n- Naval: 23\n- Military: 27 (includes 4 latrines directly connected to drains)\n- Total Water-Closets: 182\n- Military Latrines: 4\n\n## EXTRACT OF REPORT BY INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS\nIn my Return of the 20th instant I have distinguished the public, i.e., Government, and private water-closets, and stated the dates of their erection to the best of my ability.\n\nI now beg to add that but few water-closets have been fitted in private buildings, to my knowledge, within my term of office.\n\nMany of the existing water-closets may have been fitted up in the belief that they were in accordance with the requirements of section 10 of Ordinance 8 of 1856; such impressions have, however, been erroneous, as by section 14 of Ordinance 8 of 1856, and sub-section 1 of section 2 of Ordinance 14 of 1845, they are prohibited from connection with the sewers, and by section 14 of Ordinance 8 of 1856, cesspits are rendered illegal; therefore, the water-closets of Ordinance 8 of 1856 become simply water-commodes.\n\nWere it legal to run soil into the sewers, it would, in my opinion, still be unadvisable, even with an ample supply of water all the year round, because the filth would still be washed to and fro in front of the town, or lie on the foreshore for certain periods.\n\nThe town's being on the hillside is an additional and important reason why the drains should be kept as free from night-soil and other filth as is possible, as the rapid incline of the drains facilitates the movement of the gas, which, in escaping, contaminates the atmosphere of the neighbourhood above each drain opening throughout the town.\n\nWater-closets generally, when in order, for the reason that they conduct foul sewer gas into the dwellings, are objectionable, but when out of order, which is commonly their condition, they are much more so.\n\nThe system generally adopted in Hongkong of removing from the town daily the contents of commodes is, in my opinion, the best adapted to the place.\n\nI further think that the community would benefit were the flow of excrement into the sewers from the existing water-closets prohibited in future by virtue of section 14 of Ordinance 8 of 1856 and sub-section I of section 2 of Ordinance 14 of 1845.\n\n26th August, 1880.\n\n(Signed) S. R. NEATE, Inspector of Buildings.\n\n## COPIES OR EXTRACTS OF DESPATCHES FROM GOVERNOR SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 8th July, 1880.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nThe Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, \"An Ordinance for Buildings and Nuisances,\" gives the local Government complete control over the construction of all buildings in the Colony. This law contains a series of minute and stringent rules, with adequate penalties, framed to prevent the construction of any houses that are not built on what was then supposed to be the best sanitary principles. Mr. O'MALLEY, the Attorney General, tells me that the Ordinance was evidently copied almost entirely from certain Sanitary and Building Acts in force, at that time, in England. I cannot find that the Chinese householders were in any way consulted on the subject when it was being framed and passed; and the result is that some of its provisions are entirely unsuited to this Colony and would do more harm than good if enforced. Amongst other things, Clause VIII provides that it shall not be lawful to construct or re-construct any house without a sufficient water-closet or privy. This is copied from an English Metropolitan Act, but the system of water-closets and house privies is a system quite out of place in a tropical Colony, and not in accordance with the customs of the Chinese people.\n\nThe Chinese house-bucket system, especially when combined with the dry earth system (which in various ways more or less perfect they have practised for centuries), is far better than a system of water-closets and house privies. The Chinese inhabitants maintain that the attempts now and then made by successive Surveyor Generals and Colonial Surgeons to force what is called \"Western Sanitary Science\" upon them, are not based on sound principles. As I stated in the Legislative Council in November, 1878, in a discussion in which I referred to Ordinance 8 of 1856, the leading Chinese residents had said to me: \"Nothing alarms us more than the Government projects of drainage and water supply for flushing house sewage. They are not consistent with our mode of living.\"\n\nOn that occasion I quoted the views of one of the most experienced medical men in China, Dr. DUDGEON of Pekin, in support of the Chinese house-bucket system as opposed to the underground drainage system, whether connected with water-closets or house privies. In his work on \"The Diseases of China contrasted with those of Europe,\" he says: \"Much that is recommended at home in the way of ventilation, water supply, and disinfection of privies is rendered in China unnecessary. All the advantages claimed for the dry earth system are gained here free of expense to the individual or public. The industrious and frugal habits of the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "people there were hurriedly getting their books or valuables off to the steamer. A little later on he saw the flag on the British Consulate lowered, and then that of the German Consulate; the French flag next followed suit, the American Consul's flag remaining flying for some time after, until Messrs. Russell & Co.'s premises were attacked. At about one o'clock the German Consul sent for assistance on board the ships, as the Chinese Mandarin was unable to get through the crowd, so that they might effect a junction with the Mandarin from Shameen side. A force was organised which met the Chinese troops at the bridge, having effected the junction under the cover of the smoke of the burning buildings. The mob was then cleared off, and the place remained quiet, guarded by the Chinese troops and the residents. The corpse of the drowned Chinaman remained on board the Hankow until about five o'clock in the evening, when the Mandarin caused it to be taken ashore in a small sampan.\n\nMr. D. W. Schwemann, of Messrs. Siemssen & Co., was present during the greater part of the trouble ashore, and he has kindly supplied us with the following narrative:-On Monday morning at about 7.30, I was about leaving our house to go on board the Hankow for Hongkong when a Chinaman came and told our manager that \"another killing affair\" had happened, a man having been thrown overboard from the Hankow by a Portuguese watchman. I went on board at once to escape any disturbance which the Chinaman seemed to anticipate. As I got near the wharf I found a great crowd assembled, but they were quiet, and did not interfere with me excepting that one man threw a stone which did not hurt me. Mr. Hermann, of Messrs. Gaupp & Co., also came on board a little later with a friend with equal safety. His friend had to go ashore again, but then the crowd had become so threatening that he could not venture upon the wharf, so got on board a Customs boat on the other side of the steamer. The crowd commenced throwing missiles, and the steamer was got away from the wharf, and swung round on her cable, so as to get her head round to proceed down the back reach. In doing so an anchor was lost, and I was told that a number of men in large boats had made an attempt to board the after part of the boat, but were driven back, but this I did not see as I was on the fore part with the captain. Captain Ogston behaved with remarkable coolness throughout this disturbance, and I could not but admire the calm way he acted. An order had been received from the British Consul that the boat was to remain until the body had been taken by the Chinese authorities, and went up the river to Shameen, and anchored so close to the shore as to be within hail of the German Consulate. The Viceroy sent on board for the body at five o'clock, and it was removed in a small boat, whilst the watchman charged with his death was made a prisoner on board the boat, and remained so until I left. I was informed that after the Chinese fired the wharf, they went in a body to the Custom House with the intention of storming it, but as they found a number of Customs officers well armed and ready to receive them, they changed their minds, and rushed on to Shameen.—Mr. Schwemann here went on to speak of what occurred in the first part of the attack on Shameen, but we will not give that part of the narrative as we have it more fully from a gentleman who was present, as will be seen by the next report.\n\nPage 482\n\nWe will deal with what this gentleman saw himself. He said-Some ladies were taking their usual morning walk on the Bund when the crowd rushed on to Shameen, and they at once got into a boat and came on board the Hankow, followed soon afterwards by a number of other ladies and children, who had left their homes hurriedly, many only partly dressed, as some had been in bed when the alarm was given, and one lady informed me that she hastily got out of bed on being told of the attack, threw on a garment or two, and snatching up her child, ran to the steamer. She said she was pursued by some Chinese armed with long knives and bamboos, and narrowly escaped them. As there was a large number of Chinese passengers on board the Hankow, it was deemed safer to send the ladies and children on board the Ningpo, which was lying there, and this was done. Most of the male residents of the Shameen also went on board the Ningpo, and up to ten o'clock but few Europeans were ashore. After that time Mr. Butler, of the English Consulate, intimated that there were some rifles at the Consulate he was ready to serve out, and he sent on board the steamer for more, and just at that time I saw Mr. Schruyter, the shipping clerk of our Canton branch, being conveyed on board the Ningpo. I could see he was wounded. Just after this the German Consul sent for the Germans on board the steamers to assist him, and requested them to bring rifles with them if possible. This I could not do, but I went directly, and when I got ashore I was informed that our Consul and other gentlemen had made up their minds to combine together to drive the crowd over the bridge, as the Chinese refused to do more than guard the bridge and had told them that if they could do so they might drive the crowd out of Shameen by force. Most of those remaining on the island were Germans who had no families to look after, and they had a clear retreat open to them, if they needed it, to the steamers. The German Consul counselled them not to use their rifles on the crowd, as in such a case he said he should not be able to protect them afterwards. The men who now remained replied that they would be able to protect themselves now that they had rifles in their hands, and to defend their houses and property. The Consul then said that since they were ready to do this, he would adopt a different course, and as they were ready to fight, he would take all the responsibility on himself, and would assemble all he could together to endeavour to drive back the mob. At that time Herr Von Pastau, who is a lieutenant of the German Army Reserve, took the command of the men collected, about ten of whom were armed with Snider rifles and muzzle loaders, and about ten more with swords, which were got from the English Consulate. With this force we sallied forth to make the attack, but before we could reach the crowd, they cleared off and got away across the creek, some shots being fired among them, and when we got to the burning houses, there were no Chinese but one or two caught about the place. We just arrived in time to prevent the crowd from setting Messrs. Russell & Co.'s premises on fire. They had sacked the place, and we caught a man under the verandah with a piece of burning material in his hand. Three dead bodies of Chinese were found left behind, and I am told that many wounded were carried off by the mob. Our Consul sent several applications to the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1883.\n\nTHE ANTI-FOREIGN RIOT AT CANTON.\n\nThe river steamer Hankow arrived from Canton yesterday afternoon, and by her we learn further particulars of the disastrous outbreak on Monday. About half-past four on that morning a Chinaman came up the Hankow's gangway and wanted to get on board. The Portuguese watchman told him it was too early and stepped forward, stretching out his arms to bar the way. The man gave a step backward, and accidentally fell overboard. No violence whatever was used. Such was the account we received on board the steamer as that given by the watchman, but there were no witnesses of the occurrence. Some time afterwards the body was brought on board the steamer by the man's friends, and the British Consul was informed of the affair. The Consul passed the information on to the Viceroy, and it was seen that there was a possibility of trouble, but no steps to avoid it were taken by the authorities. There was no actual outbreak, however, until about a quarter past eight. At this time Capt. Ogston was talking to the man who appeared to be in charge of the body, endeavouring to induce him to remove it off the steamer quietly. Meanwhile the crowd had been increasing, and at a quarter past eight they commenced to throw stones and bricks at the vessel, and a few minutes afterwards Captain Ogston saw two men with torches. On seeing this he considered there was no time to be lost and he got his vessel away from the wharf as speedily as possible, slipping one of his hawsers to save time. Hardly had the steamer got off before the wharf was fired, kerosine having been brought from a neighbouring shop. As the Hankow steamed away the crowd continued to pelt her, and the upper deck of the steamer was covered with stones and brickbats, but no material damage was done. Mr. Christy, the chief engineer, had a narrow escape of being hit on the head, as a brick came flying past him as he was at work in the engine room. Most of the Chinese passengers the Hankow had on board at the time transferred themselves afterwards to the Honam and came down in that steamer on Tuesday. The Hankow yesterday brought down about 150 Chinese passengers; she had also on board two European ladies and two gentlemen.\n\nAs to the occurrences on Shameen on Monday, our report of yesterday seems to have covered almost the whole ground, as we were able to learn but few additional details of importance. It should be mentioned, however, that the Chinese authorities sent fire-engines on to the concession in the afternoon, to play on the burning buildings, but this assistance was too late to be of any avail, as the houses were already gutted.\n\nThe Canton Dispensary, Rev Mr. Masters's house and other houses occupied by foreigners on the Canal-road were threatened by the mob, but on the Chinese occupants of the adjoining houses representing to them that if they set fire to these the flames would extend to the Chinese shops, the rioters showed themselves so far amenable to reason as to acknowledge the force of the argument and leave these places alone. As may be imagined, however, the foreigners did not feel inclined to trust their forbearance implicitly, and Mr. and Mrs. Masters and their children, and Mr. and Mrs. Brant, of the Dispensary, found refuge in a Chinese house at the back of their own premises, whence they were subsequently taken to the Ningpo by a steam launch, a small party of foreigners and a number of Chinese soldiers giving them a safe escort through the mob from the house to the water. The Rev. Dr. Happer, who lives in the same neighbourhood, thought it safe to remain in his own house, and some other missionaries, we believe, also adopted the same course.\n\nOn Tuesday everything was quiet, and the settlement was guarded by the Chinese troops. The Swift arrived about 8.30 p.m., and the Consuls were notified. Two of the Consuls wished to have the marines landed, but the English Consul considered this unnecessary, and declined to make the request to the Commodore. Previous to the arrival of the Swift the residents had held a meeting and it was decided to patrol the settlement during the night. The first watch, under command of Mr. von Pustau, did duty from seven to nine o'clock. The second watch went on at nine and was to be relieved at eleven, but at half-past ten it was decided that there was no further necessity for the patrol being kept up by foreigners. It was said at one time that a raid was to be made about eight o'clock, but nothing of the sort occurred, and all the approaches were guarded by a sufficient force to repel any attack that might have been attempted. Most of the ladies remained on the Ningpo on Tuesday night, but several slept at the German Consulate, and a few, we believe, at their own homes. During the day official inquiries were made by the Chinese authorities as to the welfare of the foreigners, and an intimation was given that they need not give themselves any further trouble in connection with the preservation of order. In the evening the Viceroy sent word that he had ordered 500 additional troops to be stationed in the streets and roads near the settlement. Yesterday morning everything seemed to be quiet.\n\nMr. von Pustau came down by the Hankow yesterday and was the bearer of dispatches from the German Consul to the German Naval authorities. Mr. Pustau was not in a position to give any information as to the contents of the dispatches, but he said Dr. Mollendorff had expressed the opinion that the presence of a gunboat of another nationality would have a good moral effect. Mr. Pustau, to whom we are indebted for many of the details above given, further informs us that the statement that the Chinese merchants had decided to suspend business with foreigners for a fortnight was inaccurate. The merchants called on their foreign friends, expressed their concern at what had occurred, and evinced friendly feelings, but the silkmen appeared to be somewhat alarmed. Mr. Pustau agrees with our other informants as to the pusillanimous bearing of the Chinese soldiers, and says that when the foreigners charged the mob the soldiers simply opened out and allowed the roughs to pass through. It is said that thirteen of the Chinese soldiers were killed, it is supposed by the bullets which the foreigners fired over the heads of the mob.\n\nThe Portuguese watchman, who had been detained in custody on the Hankow, was taken off to the settlement on Tuesday evening by a boat from the Swift, and lodged in the Gaol of the British Consulate pending the arrival of the Portuguese gunboat. It is said the captain of the Swift refused to have him taken on board that vessel. The Hankow on her way down passed the Portuguese gunboat Tamega going up, and no doubt the man would be placed on board her on her arrival. The Espoir was not seen, but the Latin was passed about twelve o'clock. Kiungchow was passed about ten miles below Whampoa.\n\n485", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327552, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "339 \n\nhighly desirable. My suggestion was at once accepted, and I have the honour to inclose a translation of the result. This had a very marked effect in quieting matters, which was further increased by another short rhyming Proclamation of the same tenor, in twenty-four simple characters, issued two days later, for the benefit of the illiterate. A Proclamation concerning the protection of chapels, translation of which is inclosed, was issued on the 29th. At my suggestion, forty copies of a Proclamation, under the seals of the Governor-General and Governor, were sent to me, to be affixed to each British chapel in the province, stating that the chapel in question is known to the authorities to be British, and to have no connection with the French, and is therefore to be left alone, under heavy penalties. I have great pleasure in testifying to the manifest desire of his Excellency the Governor-General to do everything possible to prevent the present state of affairs from reacting prejudicially on the subjects of neutral Powers.\n\nThe Proclamation to be affixed to chapels came, unfortunately, a day too late to prevent an attack on two English chapels at Fatshan, one of which was considerably damaged. The matter, however, does not appear to be a very serious one, and the local authorities have expressed their desire to settle it without its being referred to the Governor-General. I am in great hopes that no more trouble may ensue in this direction. With regard to the French cathedral and the French Consulate in the city, I learn that they have been sealed and a strong guard put on them, and also that the same course has been taken with the French chapels in the interior. I am further informed that the French claims on account of the Shamien riot were duly paid about five days ago.\n\nEarly on the morning of the 6th instant a despatch arrived from the Governor-General, stating that the opening in the barrier in Collinson Reach would be closed at 11 A.M., while the opening in the other barrier in Cambridge Reach would be reduced to 7 chang. I at once directed the \"Ningpo,\" the only large-sized British steamer in port, to get up steam, and telegraphed to Whampoa to ask that the closing should be delayed, at any rate, till she had passed, and received a reply that my request would be complied with. I also at once addressed the Governor-General, pointing out that closing the Collinson Reach barrier would preclude all deep-draught steamers from coming to Canton, and that even the larger river steamers could not with safety get through a passage only 7 chang in width. My communications appear to have had some effect, for early yesterday morning I received a visit from a Wei-yüan of the Governor-General, asking my opinion as to the smallest passage that would admit of the river-steamer traffic. I elicited from him that the Chinese had received intelligence of Admiral Courbet's arrival in Hong Kong, where he was said to be incognito on board the \"La Galissonnière,\" and also that up to that time he believed no work had been commenced at the barriers. I told him I believed a 10-chang channel would be the very narrowest the largest river steamer could pass through in safety, and took the opportunity of suggesting that if the channel were left in the Collinson Reach barrier, and the Cambridge Reach barrier completed, trade would still go on much as usual; while, if found necessary, the former channel could be blocked as easily as the latter. I am now in hopes that the panic caused by the arrival of several French ships in Hong Kong waters has more or less passed off, and that the Imperial Commissioner charged with the coast defences may see fit to delay to the last moment the execution of an act which would have such serious consequences to trade generally. Should occasion require, I will send shortly a separate Report on the above subject.\n\nIn conclusion, I may add that there appears no cause of alarm for the safety of the foreign community here.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**H. F. HANCE**\n\nP.S.--Information has just been received from the Governor-General that the passage in the Cambridge Reach barrier will not be diminished in width, but be left as heretofore, i.e., with a width of 180 feet, or 15 chang.\n\n**H. F. H.**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n## Proclamation\n\nPêng, a junior guardian of the Heir-Apparent, Imperial Commissioner for the Coast Defences of Kwangtung, and a President of the Board of War. Chang, a junior guardian of the Heir-Apparent, by Imperial appointment charged with the coast defence of Kwangtung, and lately Governor-General of the Two Kwang. Chang, Governor of Shansi, and Acting Governor-General of the Two Kwang; and Ni, a Vice-President of the Board of War and Governor of Kwangtung.\n\nIn the matter of rewards offered,\n\n**BE it known** that the French have picked a quarrel with us, and have \"themselves rejected those who gave them birth and brought them up.\" Ungrateful for our kindness and condescension in cherishing them, and disregarding the laws of humanity, they have concentrated their forces and are eager for the fray. Ignoring right, and disregarding heaven, they have spied out our frontier and done injury to our dependencies.\n\nThe sacred benevolence was indulgent to them, and allowed them to make a Treaty and Regulations, which they forthwith broke and repudiated. At the affair of June last, at the Kwan-yin Bridge, at Liang Shan, they first wounded our envoys and then opened fire on and injured the Imperial troops, when we returned their fire. The double dealing is on their side. They know no repentance for the misfortunes they have caused, but, on the contrary, make exorbitant demands, and, covetously trying to extort an immense sum, think to get hold of our ports. They are cruel, overbearing, and covetous.\n\nHeaven's justice will not countenance them, and all the countries bounding the seas are aware that they are in the wrong. The scholars and people of Yueh have been known from early time for their loyalty and public spirit. Leaning on their spears and donning their armour they have long been eager to meet the enemy, but, standing in awe of their Sovereign's laws, they have not dared to drive [these enemies] out. The latter have now themselves begun the quarrel, and we publish the fact deliberately that the universal resolve of the soldiery and people may be, as it were, a wall, and that with one mind they may put forth their strength. Rewards will be given according to merit; and we will in no wise go back from our word in this matter. A tariff showing how the awards will be made is given below.\n\nExterminate these miserable slaves, and purify our borders of their stink. Let every one give awed attention to this Proclamation.\n\n| Reward Category | Reward Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Capture and kill the French Commander-in-chief | 10,000 taels, rank of Major, and single-eyed peacock feather |\n| Capture and kill a French official wearing 7 stripes | 3,000 taels, single-eyed peacock feather, and rank of First Captain |\n| Capture and kill a French official wearing 5 stripes | 1,000 taels, blue plume, and rank of Second Captain |\n| Capture and kill a French official wearing 3 stripes | 500 taels, blue plume, and rank of Lieutenant |\n| Capture and kill a French regular | 200 taels, blue plume, and rank of Lieutenant |\n| Capture and kill an Annamese or Chinese mercenary hired by the French | 50 taels, blue plume, and rank of Sergeant |\n\n1. Any person, whether soldier or civilian, who can capture and kill the French Commander-in-chief, will, on bringing proof to that effect, receive a reward of 10,000 taels, and have the rank of Major and the single-eyed peacock feather secured to him.\n\nHe who takes and kills a French official wearing seven stripes will, on bringing proof to that effect, receive a reward of 3,000 taels, and have the single-eyed peacock feather and the rank of First Captain secured to him.\n\nHe who takes and kills a French official wearing five stripes will receive a reward of 1,000 taels, and have the blue plume and rank of Second Captain secured to him.\n\nFor a French official wearing three stripes a reward will be given of 500 taels, and the blue plume, and rank of Lieutenant will be secured to him. If [the person claiming the reward] has already substantive rank, he will have additional rank secured to him, and all brevets will be given at once [i.e., without waiting for Imperial sanction].\n\n2. Any persons, whether soldiers or civilians, who can capture and kill one of the French regulars, will receive a reward of 200 taels. He who takes and kills an Annamese or Chinese mercenary, hired by the French to fight, will receive a reward of 50 taels. Any one man who takes and kills several will receive an additional reward according to the number. The above will also be given the blue plume and the rank respectively of Lieutenant and Sergeant. Satisfactory proof must, however, be forthcoming, and foreigners of other nations must not be recklessly killed. The brevet for each rank award will be issued at once.\n\n3. When the French army invade the place, regulars and militiamen who succeed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330320, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n\ncommunicated to us through the Colonial Government.\n\nI have to\n\n(Signed) O. F. von Möllendorff \nActing Consul for the German Empire:\n\n## Copy\n\nCanton, 23 January, 1886\n\n**RET**\n\n| Co. | 5901 |\n| --- | --- |\n| | 178 |\n\nIn pursuance of my letter dated the 20th instant, I have the honour to enclose copy of the Supreme Court's communication, which the usher of the Court left at the office of this Consulate during my absence, of which he was informed by the secretary. I cannot but take exception at the way in which orders and actions are issued against me in my official capacity, and I beg to request you to return the documents to the Court. I need not assure you that I shall be glad to assist in the administration of justice in giving any information about my official actions.\n\nHonourable Dr J.R. Stewart \nActing Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "content_text": "# 13. The date on which this Report has to be sent in makes it impossible to detail the Revenue of the Department for 1888, which will not be definitively ascertained for some months to come. The Revenue for 1887 is as follows:- \nGross Revenue 1887, $141,324.08\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Gross Revenue 1887 | $141,324.08 |\n| Share of United Kingdom | $51,085.18 |\n| Share of other countries | $6,824.82 |\n| Conveyance of Mails | $6,572.45 |\n| Working expenses | $35,071.74 |\n| Balances | $40,869.89 |\n| Total | $141,324.08 |\n\n221 \n\nI feel convinced that His Excellency the Governor will at once admit the justice of their request which is that their salaries should be raised to such a sum in dollars as will fairly represent the amount of £100 per annum, more especially now that the question of handing over our Agencies to the Customs seems further off than ever, and it is probable that the postal work will for many years continue, as it has always been, in the hands of the Assistant at Her Majesty's Consulate. Our Amoy Agent in particular has a deal of work to get through, as the following statistics show.\n\nDuring the year 1888, the gross revenue collected by him amounted to $10,849.68, made up as follows:-\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sale of Stamps | $9,185.06 |\n| Sale of Postal Notes | $1,431.75 |\n| Collected on Unpaid Letters | $205.22 |\n| do. on short paid parcel | $0.25 |\n| Profit on remittance | $17.40 |\n| Boxholders subscription | $10.00 |\n| Total | $10,849.68 |\n\n14. The loose ship letters received show a considerable decrease. Although this mode of transmission may be convenient for those who postpone correspondence until the last moment, yet it is not considered secure.\n\n15. There were several instances of fraudulent enclosures of letters and embroidery &c. in newspapers. These were taken out and forwarded, letter rate being charged.\n\n16. Money Orders may now be exchanged with Bangkok.\n\n17. A renewed effort was made to have the mails by the French Packets sorted on board between Singapore and Hongkong. I understand that the question has been forwarded to the Authorities at home, strongly supported by His Excellency the Governor and the Consul for France. Should it meet with the success it deserves, it will be a great boon not only to the Hongkong community but also to the communities at the Coast Ports, for it frequently happens that during the North East Monsoon, the Coast steamers cannot wait until the mail is sorted, and the consequence is Coast mails have to be kept back till the following steamers. Again, during the present year, the French mails have on several occasions arrived on the same day on which the homeward mail leaves, and to get it delivered so that letters may be answered by the outgoing packet, puts us to the greatest possible inconvenience and deranges the business of the Office completely.\n\n18. On the 29th November, a Peak delivery was introduced, which is, as far as I can judge at present, a great convenience to the public. Of course, during the winter months, very few residents live at the Peak, and the amount of correspondence must naturally be small. During the summer months, however, I feel convinced that this service will be a source of revenue. From the 29th November, the number of local letters despatched is 296, and those received, 70. I take this opportunity of recording my thanks to Mr. FINDLAY SMITH, Manager of the High Level Tramway Company, for his courteous assistance in this matter, especially in allowing our postmen to travel free.\n\n19. The Postmaster General in his report for 1887 pointed out very strongly the urgent necessity for increased and improved accommodation, and made a proposal for remedying the growing evils of the present building, and it is hoped that early steps may be taken to effect such an alteration as will be considered suitable to cope with the ever-increasing work of this Department. The present building was constructed in the year 1865 to meet the requirements of the Colony at that time. Since then, work has year by year considerably increased until every available space is occupied. A Pillar box system and a house-to-house delivery are very much needed, and to carry out these improvements satisfactorily, it is necessary to almost double our Chinese staff, but then we have no place to house them. The present staff are herded together in a most inconvenient manner. It is true a small allowance might be granted them to live outside, but for obvious reasons, it is preferable that they should reside on the premises. We also require separate stamp windows for Europeans and Chinese. A visit to the Post Office on a mail day would convince anybody of this.\n\n20. A steam launch has been sanctioned for this Department, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, and by its means, the landing and delivery of mails will be very much accelerated. We shall also be in a position to establish a Kowloon delivery. The sooner the building of this Launch is put in hand, the better, so that the above improvements in the Postal service may be commenced with as little delay as possible.\n\n21. The smuggling of Chinese letters still goes on to a very large extent, and a considerable number of secret Post Offices exist. The revenue is in consequence defrauded of a large amount. On this matter, however, I have already reported, and I understand it is engaging the attention of the Government.\n\n22. Our Postal Agents have applied for an increase of salary. They rest their claim not so much on the loss brought about by the fall in exchange. Its strength rests on the fact that their predecessors of 1868 received for the work they were then required to do, the same sum as they receive now. Since then, they have been called on to undertake, in addition, the work of the very heavy duties necessarily laid on them by the introduction and extension of the Postal Note and Parcel Post system. Their work has been multiplied indefinitely, while their pay, expressed in dollars, remains the same.\n\nThe sale of Postage stamps for the 12 months amounted to $9,185.06 against $7,837.81 in 1887, being an increase of $1,347.25.\n\nThe following tables show the number of registered articles and parcels received and sent during years 1887 and 1888:\n| Year | Registered Articles Received | Foreign Parcels Received | Registered Articles Sent | Foreign Parcels Sent |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1887 | 4,831 | 178 | 5,362 | 159 |\n| 1888 | 5,715 | 207 | 5,353 | 147 |\n\nThe sale of Postal Notes during 1888 amounted to $1,481.75 against $1,312.58 in 1887, being an increase of $119.17. The business of that Agency, as well as all the others, is increasing every year.\n\nDirect mails for Manila have already given considerable additional work, and now the large steamers for Japan, Vancouver, and San Francisco have commenced to call at Amoy. If this is continued, a proper office will be required on the Amoy side, and the number of the staff increased.\n\nIt frequently happens that they are called upon to pull out when a high sea is running to take the mails from some steamer anchored outside the harbour. I would suggest that as soon as the Steam Launch for this Office is ready for use, our gig be renovated and sent to Amoy, and two extra men allowed.\n\nHonourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nARTHUR K. TRAVERS,\nActing Postmaster General.\n\n## APPENDIX (4)\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, January 27, 1888.\n\nSIR-Referring to my letter of the 5th instant, I am directed by the Postmaster General to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, some copies of a revised Time Table of the India and China Mail Services for the present year, shewing a proposed acceleration of the Mail steamers on the China line.\n\nIt will be seen that on the outward voyages, the transit between Brindisi and Shanghai is less by 12 hours than the Contract time, and on the homeward voyages, it is less than the Contract time by from 36 to 132 hours, according to the season of the year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "page_number": 649, "title": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "content_text": "SUPREME COURT. \n\n25th July.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBefore HIS HONOUR MR. FIELDING CLARKE, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nDEFALCATIONS AT THE POST OFFICE. Mlada Barradas, clerk in the Post Office, charged with stealing certain moneys, the property of her Majesty.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General (Hon. E. J. Ackland), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. B. Johnson) prosecuted; Mr. J. R. Francis, QC, instructed by Messrs. Caldwell and Wilkinson, defended.\n\nThe Jurors were:-Messrs. W. Danby, H. Crawford, G. Raynal, Thos Arnold, G. de Champeaux, F. Dodwell, and D. McCulloch.\n\nFrancisco Freire, cross-examined, said-I have been in the Audit Office eleven years. Formerly was bookkeeper to Mr. Linstead. I had no experience of auditing before going to the Audit Office. I had no written instructions for any guidance when I began auditing. It was my duty to audit revenue simply. I have audited the money order accounts for about six or seven years I think. As regards Imperial orders there was usually a balance in hand. With regard to the Local orders, the reverse was the case. Sometimes the account would show an indebtedness to us of as much as $20,000. I checked both books by the counterfoils and application vouchers and found them correct. I never received any fresh instructions when postal notes were introduced. I knew nothing concerning postal notes until this matter was brought up. It never struck me when I saw postal notes on the collector's accounts that they had anything to do with the money order office. I had no instructions that they had. There was some question in the middle of last year as to the prisoner's accounts and he was called upon to make a statement. Mr. Rocha and myself examined the statement and found it correct. I have heard since that it has been examined and stated to be incorrect. I have again examined it and still believe it to be correct. I have never seen any account of remittances from Shanghai or the coast ports. How these moneys were dealt with there was nothing to show. When I went to the Post Office itself, I audited Rocha's books simply. I never audited any books kept by the Postmaster-General in his room.\n\nBy his Lordship-I did not know that there were such things as postal notes. When I saw the words \"postal notes\" I did not know there was any difference between them and postal orders. The accounts in which there is no revenue are not audited at all. If I had known that the prisoner sold postal notes I would not have accepted a receipt for postal notes in discharge of an account for money orders.\n\nAlexander Gordon Stephen--I am cashier of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. I produce the receiving cashier's book for February and March. On the 15th March there is an entry of cash received from the Government of $2,015.89. I have vouchers to show how that sum is made up. There were two sums received from the Post Office, $1,913 and $101. No other sums were paid in by the Government on that day on account of the Postmaster-General. On the 28th February, 1888, there was no sum of $1,787 paid in from the Postmaster-General.\n\nInspector Stanton-I went to Manila recently to arrest the prisoner. He was handed over to me in the British Consulate.\n\nBy his Lordship-I told him that he was charged with stealing $40,000 from the Post Office. He did not say anything to the charge. This concluded the case for the prosecution.\n\nThe defence called no witnesses.\n\nMr. Francis, on behalf of the defendant, said he must ask the jury to eliminate from their minds everything that they had read and heard with reference to this case and confine themselves strictly to the evidence. He submitted that the prosecution had utterly failed to make out any case against the prisoner. For the prosecution to make good their charges they must show satisfactorily that the prisoner could not and did not dispose of those sums of money in paying money orders and that he did not use this money in the current day's business in payment of money orders. Until there was clearly shown in some adequate manner a statement with the total receipts on one side and the total payments into the Bank and over the counter on the other he submitted it could not be shown that any money had been stolen or embezzled or made away with. Even supposing that it was clearly shown that this money was actually lost to the Government, it did not necessarily follow that the prisoner had the money. Until the prisoner's accounts as a whole were balanced and it was shown that the prisoner could not have disposed of this money in any other way, the prosecution could not make out their case. One of the witnesses had told them that there was sometimes as much as $20,000 balance against the Post Office in orders coming from Australia, and it was necessary for the prosecution to show that these sums had not been used in the payment of local money orders. They had it from Mr. Travers, with a certain amount of reluctance that they could quite understand that although prisoner should not have used it to pay orders, as a matter of fact, and almost as a matter of necessity, the whole of the moneys received by him over the counter as well as the moneys received from Mr. Travers were mixed together and that the prisoner habitually, at any rate during the period Mr. Travers was in the office, used this money in payment of Australian and local money orders. No matter what explanation might be given, a man could not be charged successfully with having stolen money that had come into his custody by simply stating that he had not paid it into the Bank, or disposed of it in one particular way when it was not clearly proved that it was his duty to put it into the Bank as he received it and when it was not shown that he did not and could not dispose of it in the course of his business in any other way. The prisoner stood before them in the position of an innocent man whose conviction or acquittal so far as the jury were concerned depended not on public rumour or public report or individual belief, but on the evidence given against him since the jury were charged to try him. The prosecution had not shown that the money had not been properly and legitimately used in the payment of money orders, nor had they even shown that there was any deficiency at all. The Attorney-General had endeavoured to show that certain statements that the money had been apparently paid into the Bank were made for the purposes of fraud and that certain erasures were made for the purpose of concealing the fraud, but his lordship would tell them that in the absence of proof that something had been stolen these statements were not evidence of theft. There was not a tittle of evidence that any money was stolen or that there was any deficiency in the Post Office accounts generally or in the prisoner's accounts. The prisoner absented himself from the office in March and of course his absence caused an enquiry, and all sorts of rumours and charges arose. He was next seen in the Colony in custody. He was asked no questions and being an accused person he naturally said \"Prove me guilty,\" and standing upon his right, said nothing. He would ask the jury whether they thought it right, fair, or reasonable that any man should be convicted on such evidence as had been produced before them at that trial. When they saw what a wretched-he was going to say system, but it would be more correct to say wretched no-system-had been shown in these departments was it not possible that these charges should have arisen from this abominable system or want of system of keeping the accounts. Did they consider the evidence of Mr. Travers with regard to these accounts such as they could convict on when there was another course by which these blunders and miscarriages might have happened? Was it not possible that this deficiency had arisen from a blunder in the accounts? He (Mr. Francis) had not a particularly high opinion of departmental officials in Hongkong but never in his wildest dreams had he conceived such a discreditable state of affairs as had been shown to exist in the Hongkong Post Office.\n\nPage 646", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "THE CHINA REVIEW.\n\nbase, ovate acuminate and usually coarsely dentate. When bruised they emit a fetid odour. The flowers are as a rule white, although specimens may frequently be seen of a distinct yellow colour; corolla infundibuliform, from 3 to 5 inches long; calyx about 2 inches long. The sub-globose capsules are about 1.3 inches in diameter, and rest upon the enlarged flat persistent base of the calyx; they are armed with a number of spines, and split irregularly when ripe. The seeds, which do not appear to be used by the Chinese, are ear-shaped and of a yellowish-brown colour.\n\nThe dried flowers, in bundles of various sizes, are the only part of the plant sold by the native druggists. The fresh herb may frequently be seen on the herbalist's stall. The dried flowers weigh on an average four grains each.\n\nHABITAT. This species grows in waste places about villages on the island of Hong Kong, and exhibits a special liking for ground in close proximity to a ruined building. On Stone Cutter's Island, under the walls of the old prison, specimens may be seen growing to a height of about 5 feet. Common also on the neighbouring mainland and about the city of Canton (Loureiro, Reeves, Parker, &c.).\n\nAn unusually fine specimen was gathered by one of us in Macao this year. It had a corolla 7 inches long.\n\nIn Remarks on the Botany of S. Manchuria by Dr Morrison of Her B. Majesty's Consulate, D. alba is mentioned among other important plants of the N. O. Solanaceae. Writing under date June 6th, 1887, Dr Morrison states, that about Newchwang it is known as Tien ma hua and La pra huo, and that it is applied in the form of an ointment to ulcers and sores. He was unable to ascertain that it was used internally.\n\nCOMPOSITION. The plant contains an alkaloid possessing properties similar to atropine. It is usually designated daturine, but, as the identity of the active principle in both the Datura and Belladonna tribes is now completely established, it would be well if toxicologists, in their reports on analyses in cases of Datura poisoning, would refer to the basic mixture isolated from the contents of the stomach or bladder simply as atropine. In the absence of a part of the plant, in the material sent for analysis, that will enable the toxicologist to establish the origin of the alkaloid, it is impossible to say that it is a case of Datura poisoning. There may be collateral evidence that would justify the expert in giving an opinion on this point, but, as a chemist, he cannot go beyond the mere statement that atropine was detected.2 Herr Schmidt, writing on the nomenclature of the alkaloids of Atropa Belladonna and Datura Stramonium, states, should it be desired to differentiate between chemically identical atropine according to its origin, it would be simply to make a distinction between atropine from Atropa Belladonna and one from Datura Stramonium, but not between atropine and daturine.1\n\nThe detection of the active principle of Datura may be effected by following the process described under Gelsemium elegans.2 The final product need not however be tested by chemical reagents, because there is no test sufficiently delicate to enable the operator to detect the mydriatic alkaloids of the Solanaceous group, when in the minute quantity usually found in the material sent for examination in cases of poisoning. A neutral solution of the sulphate or hydrochloride of the base should be prepared, and a drop or two applied to the eye. If dilatation of the pupil occurs, a further quantity may be injected into a small animal, preferably a monkey, and the effect noted.\n\nDr Sydney Ringer has called attention to the fact that certain animals are almost insusceptible to the influence of some of the mydriatic alkaloids. In 1884, during the course of some experiments made in the Government Laboratory with an alkaloidal extract of the flowers of Datura alba, considerable difficulty was experienced in killing a small guinea-pig with hypodermic injections of the base. Herbivorous animals are said to be but little affected by atropine, but it acts as a powerful poison on flesh-eaters.\n\nMed. Plants, III., 192; Fl. Hongk., 245; Pharmacographia, 462; Mat. Med. of W. Ind., 618; Science Papers, 258 and 266; Pl. Journal, (3), XVI., 497 and 540.\n\n9. Datura Stramonium, Linn. THORN APPLE, STRAMONIUM. N. O. Solanaceae. According to David, this species grows around Pekin and at Yébol in Mongolia. We have not met with a specimen, but the botanical differences between it and Datura alba are not such as to render it at all probable that the Chinese distinguish the two.\n\nOur view, that both plants will be found in China under the same or closely allied names, derives support from the fact that in Tatarinow's catalogue (No. 177), D. Stramonium is given under #Fu ch'ieh êrh, a name which, as pointed out by Porter Smith, may either be a mistake or a popular exchange for Feng ch'ieh êrh, one of the synonyms of Wan t'e lo hua (Datura alba).\n\nPorter Smith, p. 84; Soub. et Dab. de Th., p. 190; Planta Davidiana, (1884), p. 221; Ann. Plants, (11), 192. Pharmacographia, 9; Per. Mat. Med., Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 3561.\n\n10. Podophyllum versipelle, Hance. N. O. Berberideæ. C.—Tuk kouk ling. -Tu chio pien.\n\nThe discovery a few years ago of two Chinese species of Podophyllum—one in Formosa, P. pleianthum,2 and the other in the Kwangtung province—affords another illustration of the relationship which exists...\n\nPage 136", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## \nSir,\n\n### H.M.CONSULATE \nCanton, 4th July, 1894.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a copy of a report, by Mr Vice Consul Bourne upon the Bubonic plague which has during the last three months carried off so many victims in this city and in the neighbouring Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nThe ravages of the plague have been terrible enough, but Mr Bourne's paper shows how in these countries the calamity may be aggravated by a failure on our part to make allowance for Chinese sentiment, and how an additional danger may be created by injudiciously assuming that what is best for us must be best for the Chinese.\n\nA copy of this report has been sent to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking.\n\nI have etc,\n\n> Her Majesty's Under Secretary of State \nForeign Office.\n\n(Sd) Byron Brenan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## 226\n\nOpposite the Consulate, Her Majesty's Ship \"Rattler\" prevented an outbreak which on the 12th and 13th June seemed very likely.\n\n## History of the Plague in these parts\n\nWithout touching the curious enquiry how far the many different types of the plague observed here in the last three months enable us to identify with this disease the great plagues of history beginning with the one that \"smote both man and beast\" in Egypt, it will suffice to say that this plague appeared in the Province of Yun-nan during the Mohammeddan Rebellion 1856-1873. The writer of this report is probably the last European traveller who has traversed from West to East the District in which this plague is endemic, namely Lin-an Fu to Kwang-nan Fu in the Province of Yun-nan, Lat. 23°30' Long. 102°30′ to 105° E, altitude 4,000-5,000 ft above the sea. This was in February 1886. The plague had been raging in the above district in the previous June and July. He wrote: \"The rats gave warning, for they tumbled about and died in the streets; domestic animals had not suffered; many people had moved out at once on to the Hills and had lived in huts of reeds and grass. The attack began with violent head-ache, fever, and black tongue; hard lumps arise at the glands; death ensues sometimes...\"\n\n+ See Baber's \"Through Western Yunnan\", page 178, R. Geographical Society Supplementary Papers Vol. I; Rocher's \"La Province de Yunnan\", Paris, E. Leroux, Vol. II, page 279.\nSee `Parl. Papers China No. 1 (1888)`, Report by F.S.A. Bourne of a Journey in South Western China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Jernor.\nNo. \nCH 100 1898 \nHongkong. No. 97418 \n\n**(Subject.)** \nMarriages before Consuls \n\n## Previous Paper. Report \n\n## DESPATCH. \nof Mrs Tex. Enquires whether marriages can be performed at a foreign Consulate in B. Colonies without compliance with requirements of local law. \n**Mr Wilson.** \n\n### (Minutes.) \n3 \n73189 \no Je \nDispose \n*Dojd—13-12-107* \n\n## Subsequent Paper. \nlocal law. \nWe have no notice of any similar case hitherto; the question appears to be purely legal. I send it to you with a copy of the despatch. \n5/5 \n30th April \nin Hongkong \nW Cox \nLAFU 615 **Mr Wingfield** \n\nI have asked the law officers for a precedent of marriages before foreign consuls in Hongkong, but there seems to be no information upon the point. \nThe case appears to be as follows. An American subject remained at the US Consulate by arrangement with a woman, an American of Chinese origin who by previous marriage with a British subject had acquired British nationality. We have no information as to whether she had during widowhood, divested herself...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368958, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "between H.M's Gov't and the \nChinese Gov't with \nthe \na view to \nextension of the boundaries \nof the Colony \n\nor Individual. \n\nNo. \nHong Kong \n11538 \n129 \nDOMESTIC. \n11538 \nREC. \nFFGE 35MAY98 \n\n(Subject.) \n898 \n8 May. \nPrevious Paper. \nMarriage \ndiocesan \nin \nU.S. Consulate. \nillegality \n-narratives \nA \nat question \non the general \nForeign Consulate is B. Colonies 20. Cannot give ruling \nto local laws \nof foreign \n\nCOD-0 \nDisp \n(Minutes.) \nMr Cox. \nThis \ndoc \nnot \nseem \nto help \nus much. \nI suppose \nwe \nshould \nconsult \nthe \nL.O. for \nour \nown \nguidance. \nBut if \nillegal \nit \nis \ninvalid \n& for the Governor's future guidance, \nbe decided \nthat the \none wither \nnot be better to instruct \nthe O.A.G to make \nfriendly representation to the \nAmerican Consul to that effect rather than to represent \nit to the U.S. Gov't through the F.O. \n\nP.C.M. \n25/5/55 \n\nH&L(78)~400-10000-13 67 \nSubsequent Paper. \n70 \n13167 \nHer Wimpfeld \nE \n31/5 \nThe only point we were really anxious to clear up was, I think, whether the U.S. Consul...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \n\nTo W. Hamilton \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed by Mr Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd ult regarding a marriage recently celebrated at the US Consulate in Hongkong without compliance with the requirements of the local law & I am to request you to lay before the Marquess of Salisbury the enclosed draft of a despatch which Mr Chamberlain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369042, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC.\n\n### Marriage at US. A. Consulate\n\n**C.0.** 213 \n13164 \n13187 \n**13 JUN 19**\n\nNo. \n\nsterling rate during his recent passage from Morg...\n\n2. Jam therefore authorize com... to issue full instructions regarding the rate of the dollar from 160 teals & the 18th October inclusive, the latter being the date when his recent instructions are considered terminated.\n\nJobber Tells... the fee was paid in the dog up feter 315 aus.\n\n> ace or Individual.\n\nInain 1898 \n\nNo. \n\nvong trong \n\n(Subject.)\n\n*L. :76)—33)-70000-$7 \n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nMi cox \n\n(Minutes.)\n\nT.C.M. 13/6 \n\nin para: 2 of the 7.5. I don't see much advantage in forwarding letter of 23-cen from Longfield.\n\nL. Davidson Spoke to me about this some time ago & understand that if asked to do so they would represent the matter to the US Government with a view to preventing the Consul in which acted in this case from acting in the same way in the future. I do not think we should do this unless there is a manifest abuse. I see from letter quoted for...\n\nAb HBC 13 June \n\nin torren is preferred to use the P.T.O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, September 25th, 1899.\n\n* * *\n\nINLAND WATERS STEAM NAVIGATION.\n\nThe following is a continuation of the correspondence on Inland Waters Steam Navigation forwarded to us by the Chamber of Commerce:--\n\nTHE CONSUL TO THE SHIPPING COMPANIES.\n\nBritish Consulate, Canton, 6th May, 1899,\n\nGentlemen,-Referring to your letter of March 28th, forwarding a joint petition of British shipping firms to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking with reference to the working of the Inland Steam Navigation, I am directed to hand you the enclosed reply, and have to ask you to communicate it to the other British firms interested.-I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Hongkong.\n\nH.B.M. CHARGE D'AFFAIRS TO THE SHIPPING COMPANIES.\n\nPeking, 27th April, 1899.\n\nTo Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 28th March with reference to the provisions of the Regulations and Rules for the Steam Navigation of the Inland Waters of China.\n\nThe various questions raised by you are receiving my close attention and I will communicate with you further on the subject.-I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,\n\nH. O. BAX IRONSIDE\n\nPeking, 17th May, 1899.\n\nGentlemen,-In continuation of my letter to you of 27th April, I beg to inform you that I have been in communication with the Inspector-General of Maritime Customs with reference to the observations on the Rules and Regulations for Inland Steam Navigation in China made by you in your letter to this Legation of 28th March.\n\nSir Robert Hart was entrusted by the Chinese Government with the task of drawing up these Rules and Regulations and his views on the subject are therefore of considerable importance. He has written to me a reply dated 12th instant, copy of which I enclose for your information.\n\nThe system is, of course, upon its trial and is being carefully watched and reported upon by Her Majesty's Consuls in all parts of China. It should be given due time to afford a fair test of its merits. Your remarks as to the West River trade will be borne in mind in case revision prove to be necessary,-I am, gentlemen, Your obedient servant,\n\nH. O. BAX-IRONSIDE.\n\nTo Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited.\n\nTHE INSPECTOR-GENERAL TO H. B. M. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES,\n\nInspector-General of Customs Peking, 12th May, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge your communication of the 27th April concerning Steam Navigation Inland.\n\n2. When the Ministers of the Yamen originally decided to memorialize for authority to open the inland waters to steam the idea was simply to permit steamers to do what junks and boats do subject to the same inland charges, but when the privilege was extended to include foreign flag steamers some modifications were introduced in the rules first drafted. While the object of these modifications was to secure for the foreigners concerned the benefit of certain treaty stimulations therewith connected, their effect has been to create difficulty for the revenue generally, for, whereas the original plan was to apply inland local regulations in all their integrity to steamers as well as junks, and, by thus protecting the revenue, insure the support of the provincial officials, the introduction of the treaty element necessitates an exceptional procedure which interferes with former practice, makes taxation more difficult, tempts Chinese owners to buy foreign flags, and alarms and alienates both the inland authorities responsible for, and inland administration dependent on, inland revenue. The very sanctioning of the modification referred to created a necessity for strictness in interpreting the other parts of the inland steam privilege, and accordingly, in order both to protect and keep separate the Imperial Maritime and the Provincial Inland revenues, the opening of the inland waters to steam has had to be defined as forbidding licensed vessels to quit Chinese waters and as excluding vessels that trade between treaty ports.\n\n3. What precedes will suffice without further detail to suggest explanations of, and reasons for, the restrictions foreign merchants now complain about, but in point of fact there is no differential treatment; whatever licensed Chinese steamers can do inland, foreign flag licensed steamers can do also, and whatever inter-port foreign steamers cannot do inland, inter-port Chinese steamers are likewise forbidden to do, but, just as Chinese waters and foreign waters are two different things, so interport trading and inland trading are also two different things, and, belonging to two different fiscal systems, the Imperial and the Provincial, must be differently treated. The hybrid character of the West River has of course its inconveniences; from one point of view it is a continuation of the sea and a highway leading to the two open ports of Samshui and Wuchowfoo while from another it is an inland water; to one set of eyes it is, notwithstanding its double character, one and the same thing, while to another it possesses, while one and the same thing, a double entity, the interport owner wonders why his interport steamer cannot do what he sees done by inland steamers passed here and there, while the responsible revenue officials require the two trades and the two vessels to be kept separate; while the apparent anomaly of two treatments existing side by side on the same stream is a puzzle to one party, there is the further fact that at its mouth are the foreign waters and the foreign colonies of Hongkong and Macao, and for the other party-the revenue officials-this fact opens up possibilities which render it all the more necessary to distinguish between the two trades and act accordingly. Treaties, conventions and rules being what they are on the one side, and the fiscal responsibilities being what they are on the other, the principle of the present treatment-distinction between inland and interport trades-seems both logical and necessary and any revision which ignores that distinction will be but a one-sided and therefore unpalatable remedy. It is not for a moment to be supposed that the inland steam navigation concession was intended to either abolish provincial taxation or kill native trade, and it is not unreasonable to ask for a recognition of provincial conditions and assent to provincial requirements. The expectations that heralded the opening of the West River were somewhat sanguine, but, even granted they could ever be realised, it is not the distinction between inland and interport trade that is either postponing or impeding that realisation. The concession was launched without sufficient consideration or preparation, and as it now is, it does not satisfy either side. The foreign trader fears that the restrictions which provincial officials call for will thwart development, and the provincial official fears that the development which the foreigner aims at will destroy revenue; but both one and the other are alarmed, and perhaps unnecessarily, before the event, and plead from fear rather than from facts. If steam navigation inland is to work quietly and be a benefit, it will ...\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "be necessary to legislate locally at many differ ent points and in accordance with many differ- ent sets of circumstances, conditions, and requirements. It will only be when that is done that regulations and procedure will beg suitable and also contain in the eyes of botha sides the proper proportion of sapport and control.\n\n4.--As regards the rules and regulations promised in rate 7 of the regulations and clause\" 8 of the supplementary rules, there has been such consultation, and much passing and re: passing of draft rules for consideration, but up? the present none have been issued for publica- tion; and as for the appointment of the pro- vincial officers roferred to in cluase 9 of the\" rules, such appointments are to follow publics- tion and have not yet been announced. It is hardly likely that this delay has caused either , inconvenience or damage, seeing that it has not taken from or interfered with the enjoy ment of any existing rights, and that foreign capital is neither known nor expected to be invested—at least to any considerable extent— in the petty craft to which the depth and width of inland water channels necessarily eon- fine the steam navigation privilege, and this privilege itself, whether rightly or wrongly thought valuable, will require years of patient nursing before it can possibly answer any ́expectations.---I have, etc.,\n\nROBERT HART,\n\n1.G. of Customa,\n\nH. O. Bax-Ironside, Esq., HBM. Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.\n\nTHE STEAMER COMPANIES TO H.M.S. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES.\n\nHongkong, 17th June, 1899. :: Sir, We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches of the 27th April gand 17th May, which, with enclosures, reached us through the medium of H.B.M. Consul at Canton,\n\nIt is with mach disappointment that we infor! from your despatch that you do not propose lą take any steps and that you think it well in the meanwhile to concur in the interpretation placed by Sir Robert fiart on the Rules and Regula- tions for Inland Steam Navigation in Chins, and that the system should be given due time! to afford a fair test of its merits.\n\nIf the Rules and Regulations as interpreted by Sir R. Hart could be regarded as in any respect estisfactory, or if they gave fair promise of eventually meeting the requirements of the\" West River navigation and trade, we would readily assent to your suggestion that thoy should have a trial to test their merits, but. there can be no hope of eventual satisfaction with a system which seriously impairs the value: of the original concession.\n\nWe have carefully read the letter frem Si Robert Hart which you have been good enough to forward and while admitting that his views are important on the working of Rules and Regulations which be himself has drawn up, we take exception to the interpretation given them. The difficulty with which the Inspector. General was confronted was, we readily admit, a very serious one, for he had the choice of coming into conflict with the interests of the Provincial authorities in the matter of revenue on the one hand, and on the other the necessity of so constructing the Rules and Regulations as to render their working in no respect inimi-. cal to the Provincial system of revenue.\n\nHə adopted the latter course, with the rosult that the value of the Inland Navigation concession has been affected to an extent which manifestly could not have been contempleted by the British Minister at the time of its negotiation. The memorandum which we previously forwarded to you afforded full information of the effects of the Rules and Regulations as now worked, and we do not deem it necessary to supplement them, but we would beg to point out that the trade between Hongkong and the Treaty ports on the Waat River, and between the Treaty ports themselves, is not of sufficient volume to allow of steamers being run profitably, but with liberty to call at way ports, ie. island places, permission for which has been withdrawn since we addrossed Sir Claude MacDowald\n\non the 28th March, the increased traite work' in time probably be remunerative. The piouser steamers which are now running cannot corer their expenses under existing conditious and others suscially constructed for the trade which are now leaving the builders hands, and again others which have just been contractod for, had better not have been ordered.\n\nIn view of the foregoing, we venture to again seek you good offloes in the hope that you will be able to bring about a more practicable con struction of the Rules and Regulations as they affect Navigation on the West River, which as already mentioned, cannot be said to have besu opened to trade in the sense contemplated by Sir Claude MacDonald and understood by the public at large. We have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servants.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers, Indo Chius BN.\n\nCo., L\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agouts, China Navigation Company, Ld.\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD,\n\nSecretary, H'kong, Canton & Macao S.B. Co., Ld.\n\nTo H. O. Bax-Ironside Eeq., H.B.M. Charge d'Affaires, Peking.\n\n: THE CONSUL TO THE STEAMER COMPANIES,\n\nBritish Consulate, Canton 9th August, 1899. Gentleman,-In reply to your letter of 7th instant, I bag to inform you that I telegraphed to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires as requested and that from bis reply just to hand it appears that your letter of the 17th June miscarried and has never reached him. I am sending him a copy from that in my archives.\n\nAs you are laying your grievance before the Chamber of Commerce, it may be of interest to you to read the enclosed copies of two despatches dated June 10 and July 7 respectively, addressed to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires by me on the subject of the reading which the Imperial Maritime Customs have been pleased to put on the Steam Navigation Inland Regulations.--I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servaut,\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD,\n\nConsul.\n\nP. S. I shall be obliged if you will communi- cate the above to the Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Company and to the China Naviga- tion Company,\n\nMessrs. Jardiue, Matheson & Co., Hongkong.\n\nTHE CONSUL TO THE CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES.\n\nBritish Consulate, Canton, 7th July, 1899. Sir,-In my despatch No. 27 of tho 10th altimo 1 had the honour to report that the I.M. Customs had prohibited launches plying under the Steam Navigation Inland Regulations from calling at Tresty porte en route.\n\nThis prohibition has now been extended to apply to Kongmoon, Kam Chak, Shiu Hing, and Tak Hing, mentioned as \"places of call in the West River Regulations.\n\nI have entered a strong protest against this ruling as being in direct contravention of Re- gulation 1, which says that steamers \"may pro- ceed to and fro at will under the regulations, but they must not proceed to places out of Chinese territory.\" (The italics are wine).\n\nThe result of this action, which I can only characterize as arbitrary, is that steamers, under West River certificate, cannot call now, having had their Inland Waters licenses withdrawn, anywhere but at open ports and \"places of call,\" and steamers with the Inland Waters license, though they may pass these places, may not enter them. The whole traffle is therefore split up into two services, and two steamers running over the same ground are required to do the work of one. Under such circumstances. I have no hesitation in saying that the Steam Navigation Inland Regulations are absolutely valueless.\n\nI am powerless locally as the Commissioner of Customs states that he is acting under in- structions from Peking.-I am, &c.,\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nH.B.M. Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.\n\nH.\n\n28\n\nS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "8\n\nbeen completely sacked, even partly burnt down. The damage caused by this outrageous attack and robbery amounts to thousands of dollars.\n\nBefore I proceed to say something about the settlement of the imbroglio, of which I have now given a particular and true account, I take occasion to inquire briefly into the possible reasons which have led Père Julien to conduct himself more like a captain of robbers than a priest.\n\nI must, however, premise that owing to the never-ending troubles with the Catholics, Mr. Ricke, another missionary of our Mission, and I had a conference at Canton last year with three Catholic priests in the presence of the French and German Consuls, in order to find some modus vivendi. We attained to something like an agreement. Stipulations had been drawn up by us, which met the approbation of both Consuls, and partly also of the priests.\n\nOne of these stipulations runs thus: \"Whenever Catholics get at variance with heathen, Protestants shall abstain from interference, and vice versa.\"\n\nNow it must be conceded that Mr. Zahn, in his dealings with the people of Pak-kong, had little regard to this clause. He knew them to be wronged by the Catholics in a most cruel way, and thought himself entitled at least to espouse their cause to the extent of allowing them to enroll their names in his books, and he even baptized a few of them. In this he was no doubt wrong, and I do not defend him, though I think it pardonable in the case of a young and ardent missionary, whose heart cannot but burn with anger when he sees what takes place daily under the cloak of religion. Mr. Zahn has suffered for his precipitation, for he knows by sad experience what view a French priest takes of his calling and how he practises it.*\n\nIt remains for me to give an account of the settlement of this case. It goes without saying that the German Consul, as soon as he got a full report of the affair, did his utmost to get justice done to Mr. Zahn. He arranged a meeting at the German consulate between Père Julien and Mr. Zahn, in which he himself with the French Consul took part. It must also be said that the French Consul, after getting full proof of the guilt of his client, showed as much consideration.\n\nIn his memorial presented to the governor, the magistrate of Tsang-shing relates an interview he had with Mr. Julien at Pak-kong. To his face he blamed him for his behaviour, asking him why he allowed his people to rob and to remove property belonging to other people, rendering thereby men and women of several families homeless and destitute; surely, he said, this is not admonishing people to practise good. On which the teacher had only evasive and empty words, B1 以縦合教民任意搬搶以致各家男婦流離失所珠不做勸人爲著所為 該教士一支吾掩飾、\n\n9\n\nIt was not to be expected that Mr. Julien would at once plead guilty. Though he played his role as Pak-kong so unblushingly, he was not quite himself when confronted with Mr. Zahn in the presence of his Consul and the representative of Germany. His attempts to hush up and to deny the facts were disproved step by step. When he at last saw himself driven into a corner, he had recourse to an expedient so absurd and at the same time so significant, as showing the means to which the Catholics resort against us, that I cannot refrain from communicating it for the amusement of the readers of the RECORDER. Mr. Julien produced a flag with the German colours, bearing the inscription: Tai Tak-kwok Lai Yin-ni Fuk Yam-tong-chapel of the Rhenish Missionary Society of Germany! This flag had been, so Mr. Julien said, in the possession of Mr. Zahn when he was seen by the Chinese marching with flying colours. Alas, this barefaced lie at the head of the gang of robbers! which out-Heroded Herod, proved a forlorn hope. The flag produced was spick and span new, bought and manufactured. There was not even method in this bit of madness, for the manufacturers of this unfortunate flag had not even been at the pains to show by the seams that their handiwork had not been in use at all! Mr. Julien had nothing left to him except to confess that the flag had been procured and manufactured at Canton!\n\nTo be brief, after a consultation between the two Consuls, it was agreed upon:\n\n1. That Mr. Julien should apologize in the presence of the Consuls and Mr. Zahn for his misconduct, which he did, after having also confessed that he himself was the person who led his party to attack and ransack Pak-kong by night.\n\n2. That the French mission should pay $50 to Mr. Zahn as an indemnity and further return the stolen watch and other property belonging to him.\n\n3. That Mr. Julien should be transferred to another sphere of labour.\n\n4. That the robbers should be dealt with according to Chinese law; both Consuls jointly placing the whole affair in the hands of the Chinese authorities with a written undertaking not to influence them in any way.\n\nHas\n\nSince these terms were agreed upon six weeks have elapsed. We are entitled to ask, what has been done in the meantime? Has the agreement been carried into effect? Has punishment been meted out to the transgressors of the law?\n\nExcept the humiliating apology of Mr. Julien and the payment of fifty Mexican dollars, not much has been accomplished. According to a communication received by the German Consul from the French bishop at Canton, Mr. Julien has been transferred to another place far from Pak-kong, and has been replaced there by a prudent and circumspect priest. But what about the punishment of the robbers? The governor of Canton has asked the magistrate of Tsang-shing to investigate the case and to deal with the robbers accordingly.\n\n471", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Lelegraur \n23 \nH \n467 \n\nDeep. no. 1464 \n466 \n\n**Subjed** \n20 och kapic of bok Sec. Registras \nSeveral \nHouse of Colonial Secretary \nbucture in Puh. \nWistiska co in S. China \n\n**Long Service Medal** \n468 \n\n**Blue Book Report** \n469 \n26 \n\n**Dace. 2 of 1900** \n470 \n441 \n\n**Orde. 25 of 1900** \n472 \n**Ordec 20 of 1900** \n**Ordec 24 of 1900** \n473 \n**trace. 28 of 1900** \n444 \n**trace. 29 of 1900** \n445 \n\n**Outbreak in klei then district** \n476 \nbouf \nKrovine. \nTelegram 27-29~ \n449 \n\n**Suspension of my Bugg, wardar aster** \nRising in Kwang Sung \nthovement of French troops in China \n\n| Date | Subjech | \n| --- | --- | \n| | Volunteer Corpo | \n| 30. | Suspension of wardmaster | \n| 31. | Disturbanar in S. bhina | \n| | Post Office at Shanghai | \n| 480 | | \n| 483 | whos Military Financial Committee | \n\n## he. \n| Date | Subjech | \n| --- | --- | \n| 10 | Selepas 10 how Syphon | \n| | they ch | \n| 14 | Property Convention in with. | \n| 496 | | \n| HGY | mamis quarters for Gast Staff | \n| 16 | Onace. 31 of 100t | \n| 3498 | | \n| | bodes. 32 of 1900 | \n| 49 | 14 | \n| | wave. Polies | \n| 1501 | | \n| 20 | Quesne pages. | \n| 502 | 21 | \n| | вото | \n| bonf | 27. | \n| | Wandero for Victoria Gaol. | \n| | Disirsband in to bla | \n| | Hostile operations of Philippens fan la | \n| 26. | faxe to. | \n| | Aphen of Wil H. Ha stupe. | \n| | Opiums & Quarry farms | \n| 28. | Typhoon | \n| 5M- | lese | \n| 30 | 501 | \n| | elegan | \n| 나 | Bagg | \n| 504 | | \n| | Staff of Public workre Event AssMares, kelios Reformaton; | \n| | School at you | \n| | -wa | \n| | 4th Viscontrindale | \n| | 5 best high of Price. | \n| Y | 4 | \n| | Lease of land to losers. elegram 13. Defence from \"&\" | \n| 500 | | \n| 14 | Selegram 5- Chatiment of Explosives for korea per \"Rodlewell\" telegram 20- | \n| A | Disturbances in LChina | \n| | Leaves of Loveshore Leabed. | \n| | Military Attaché to us. Consulate | \n| लेते | 484 | \n| 8. | 485 | \n| 572 | 513 | \n| 486 | Table Reserves. | \n| 514 | | \n| 515 | | \n| 484 | | \n| 488 | Memorias of ng Kwai thang. | \n| | legram 22- | \n| 489 | Subsidiary coinage | \n| 516 | | \n| 490 | Security Bond of wf Solly | \n| 1517 | | \n| 491 | Sung wa bospital. | \n| Sept. Gr. 1900 | 492 | \n| | Ondre. 30 of 1900 | \n| 518 | ti | \n| | Butterfreed | \n| | Land boat-climes this bath is rebost | \n| | Visit from Wrike shinuchess of yout Fadets | \n| | hed car Lee Jules sanita:. | \n| | F.W. Weh | \n| | Wash suph of Pouratione in | \n| | Oversees for Waterworks, Kowloom. | \n| | New Lean word | \n| 24. | Salary of tenor Chuis write. | \n| | Salary of bapt ups of trives. | \n| | legram 28- Cadets. | \n| | Police Magistrate. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380887, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Apul\n\nlast\n\n2.\n\nkür Chamberlain\n\nworld Go glad if\n\nYou\n\nwould communicate\n\nthis despatch to\n\nQu\n\ndoctor who examined\n\nWr Holdaway\n\nOp\n\nNo.\n\n237\n\n901\n\nprevious Paper.\n\nArad 285: 6:\n\n1-2-31750—020010-7-1900\n\n2310-202007-11-1200\n\nsequent Paper.\n\nNo. 27046\n\n(Subject.)\n\nMedical Officers attached\n\nreports that\n\nvisit\n\nDESPATCH\n\nC.0\n\n410\n\n27046\n\n6\n\nUS. Consulate\n\nI vease le proceeding\n\nto the US Test\n\nto\n\nto the US. are responsible for their disinfection se: enqueres of these proceedings are regular prequests instus as to any achar which should be tak\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMin Thum\n\nWhether regular\n\nproceedings\n\nare responsible.\n\nnot, there\n\nam not sure whether this\n\ninformcter should be got from the\n\nLGB\n\nThe denised\n\n$ many\n\n1\n\nther Offer, but\n\ncopy\n\n%\n\n49.B asking for\n\nsubmitted\n\ninformation\n\ndruft\n\n* Stank to F.o a copy l.f.to\n\nLG.B.\n\nMin Them.\n\nat once Ed\n\n? remind 70\n\nLF\n\n1. ING 30/3\n\n67 VIII\n\nofi\n\nUpon reviewing the provided text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nApul last 2. kür Chamberlain world Go glad if You would communicate this despatch to Qu doctor who examined Wr Holdaway Op No. 237 901 previous Paper.\n\nArad 285: 6: 1-2-31750—020010-7-1900 2310-202007-11-1200 sequent Paper. No. 27046 (Subject.) Medical Officers attached reports that visit\n\nDESPATCH C.0 410 27046 6 US. Consulate I vease le proceeding to the US Test to to the US. are responsible for their disinfection se: enqueres of these proceedings are regular prequests instus as to any achar which should be tak (Minutes.)\n\nMin Thum Whether regular proceedings are responsible. not, there am not sure whether this informcter should be got from the LGB The denised $ many 1 ther Offer, but copy % 49.B asking for submitted information druft * Stank to F.o a copy l.f.to LG.B.\n\nMin Them. at once Ed ? remind 70 LF 1. ING 30/3 67 VIII ofi\n\nHowever, to better adhere to the instructions and improve readability, the corrected text should be formatted with proper paragraphs and minor corrections for clarity without altering the original content's tone or style.\n\nHere is the revised HTML output with some additional corrections for spelling and spacing:\n\nApul last 2. Sir Chamberlain world. 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Fo...\n\nThe Summary\n\nLGB Mr Grom 6 Ang Win Throm for 87.0 24237.25/us\n\nCopy Correspondence LEB. on L.F 6/VIII Sin by 9 Ang for ara directed W Sary Chamberlain to transmit to, the Managers of Lansdowns the LGB\n\nCopy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong relating to the action of fire U.S. Consulate in that Colony in the matter of unspeaking\n\nCopy b. L. 9. Bd & Miq 2- inspection of ships sailing from that Colony to the US", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "Similar telegrams & that Singapre has had as usual' - I wish we had clearer information\n\nSena\n\nNo.\n\nt. J.o. α\n\nSay it seems to us much simpler for each side to pay for all the telegrams sent on\n\nMake Curtain sent on government service find at that no decision has been\n\nC. Q.\n\n234\n\n62.\n\nGovernment House,\n\n7:3\n\n25 02\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1902.\n\nSir,\n\nTelegrams, 18th & 25th\n\nFall on the point in any other department\n\n18\n\n1-April\n\nat once.\n\ndefels.\n\nNot that I land\n\nDo\n\naR 7/4\n\nyou any\n\n12/4\n\nBU\n\n么\n\n3/4\n\nafaB.\n\n'afuit...\n\nThis has and reached me hould refer you\n\nA-day\n\nJo 21437/82, 8341\n\ntrucar\n\nHavi\n\nm Stulbs\n\nteam\n\nthe Batter\n\nOur 20/5 further 15317\n\nfur. Round\n\nLee S. Afr. comes below. fin which the qual\n\nDr\n\nCircular of 27 Jan (/07, sexto\n\nWalter paper.\n\nI remember later correspondence\n\nSpar\n\nto cost between this & con- further Apice, & Concile with attention as Portico in it S. Africa; the two hot think the few hile, which prevails in the absence of any arrangement to the contrary,\n\nthe courteous and I do not at all understand letter from Concert at dansen.\n\n7/2123/4/02\n\nseems to have been followed. Dom 7/5\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your information and consideration the enclosed copy of correspondence which has passed between this Government and His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Saigon, relative to the payment of Government telegraphic messages.\n\n2. This Government is of course fully prepared to defray the cost of telegrams received from British Consuls if His Majesty's Government decide that such payment should be made; but in view of the facts that only two Consuls, so far as I am aware, have ever made such application to this Government, and that during the past few years, at least, there is no record of any such disbursements having been made by this Colony, I am of opinion that the matter is one which should be referred to you for decision. I may mention that the Consulate-General at Canton, with which this Government exchanges a larger number of telegraphic messages than with any other Consular Agency, appears to have sent in no such accounts to be discharged by Hongkong.\n\n3. My own opinion on this matter is that the interchange and discharge of accounts for telegrams which have passed between the Consular and Colonial Authorities in\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,\n\nM.P.,\n\n&C...\n\nA\n\nChina", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "309\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nN 3/531\n\n(Subject.)\n\nC.O.\n\n31531\n\nRECS SEP 04\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo.\n\n1904\n\nAug\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nMO\n\n18bbo\n\nUs Sanitary Precautions at\n\nHong Kong.\n\nExplaining which formed subject of complaint of master of Lothian: does not consider should be made to US Port:\n\nany representation by Consul of Shanghai.\n\n73)—13993--3303-18-5\n\nWait subsequent Paper.\n\nYou\n\n$6526\n\n09\n\nCollins\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n9 Tell the Chamber of Shipping that\n\nThe Sys has now seen his report. It appears that the system to which they object is generally approved by shipowners and masters.\n\nThe detention of ships in Quarantine at the US ports, which could be occasioned if they left Hong Kong without a clean bill of health attached to the US Consulate Certificate, is interfering with the practice.\n\nSees no reason for changing the practice.\n\nRES\n\n769.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "113\n\n2\n\nmore was born at Foochow of a Chinese father, reputed to be of Amoy, but concerning whom there is no other evidence. Another was born at Singapore two years before his father was naturalized. Three were born in Amoy of a father born in Moulmein; there is nothing to show that he was the child of a British subject. And there is one who was born at Singapore of a father said to have been a naturalized British subject; his two children, born respectively at Amoy and Shanghae, are also registered as British subjects.\n\nAs showing the divergent views sometimes taken by British Consular officers of the question under consideration, I inclose copy of Mr. R. W. Mansfield's despatch covering the earlier Shanghae Return, and of a Memorandum by Mr. P. F. Hausser which accompanied his Return of Anglo-Chinese British subjects registered at Amoy.\n\nIt can, I think, be concluded from these facts that the case of Anglo-Chinese born in a British Colony of parents who were subjects of the Emperor of China, or who, at any rate, were not proved to be anything else, does not present any very great difficulties in practice, except that which arises from the clause in the Certificate A, 100 (b), which states that it \"does not confer upon the bearer while within the Empire of China any claim or right to British protection.\" I am of opinion accordingly that there would be little objection to the excision of this restriction from the certificate. Or, if that is considered unadvisable in all cases, I would recommend the adoption of the proposal of Sir Henry Blake that a discretionary power should be vested in the Governor of Hong Kong to enable him to grant protection or assistance in deserving cases. That is to say, he might give a certificate without the restriction above mentioned. It would thus not be necessary, nor, I think, would it be advisable, to possibly leave the protection of such persons to the discretion of Consular officers, who might not exercise it in a uniform manner.\n\nI observe that in the Foreign Office letter of the 4th July last to the Colonial Office, copy of which accompanied your Lordship's despatch, it is suggested that the discretionary power which Sir Henry Blake proposed should be conferred on the Governor might possibly in some instances lead to differential treatment, and might provoke complaints on the ground of alleged favouritism. This could, I venture to think, be obviated if the rule were laid down that the person to whom the certificate was granted must be a bona fide resident of the Colony, and have carried on business there for a certain number of years. I had no opportunity of discussing this point with Sir Henry Blake, as neither of us had seen the Foreign Office letter in which it is raised at the time when I passed through Hong Kong (on the 8th August last on my way to Peking), and your Lordship's despatch did not reach me until the 23rd August, two days after my arrival at my post.\n\nWith regard to the last paragraph of that despatch, asking my opinion as to how far any changes that I might recommend will necessitate a previous understanding with the Chinese Government, I have the honour to state that, as regards the proposed revocation of Sir Rutherford Alcock's Circular of 1868 relative to costume, no communication seems necessary, as it has long been a dead letter. With reference to the other point, namely, of recognizing in British subjects born in a British Colony of Chinese parents subjects of China a right to British protection, it may be observed that, on the one hand, such protection is at the present moment actually accorded in numerous cases without provoking any objection on the part of the Chinese Government, and, on the other, that a proposal put forward from our side would inevitably lead to the Chinese reasserting the position that allegiance of Chinese subjects is indelible, and is transmitted to their descendants for ever, no matter where born. I should propose, therefore, to make no communication to the Chinese Government, and to leave them to raise the question if they considered it more necessary than they have hitherto done in existing cases of the kind.\n\nIf an Anglo-Chinese British subject fails to register himself at a port he renders himself liable, under Article 114 of the Order in Council of 1865, either to a fine of 10 dollars or to be refused recognition or protection as a British subject. One can see that the latter penalty would be a serious one to inflict on an Anglo-Chinese subject who, having failed to register himself, had fallen into the hands of the Chinese authorities and was detained in their custody in connection with a criminal charge against himself or another. But whether he registers himself or not, he should not be protected in civil matters arising out of business transactions which other British subjects are not by Treaty entitled to enter into.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW\n\n3\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nA.\n\nActing Consul-General Mansfield to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 32.)\n\nShanghae, September 30, 1903.\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular of the 8th instant, calling for a Return of British subjects of Chinese descent registered in this Office.\n\nI have now the honour to inclose a Return of the twenty-one persons so registered in Shanghae, giving all the obtainable information with regard to each of them. Personally I have always carried out the Supreme Court instructions (Instructions to His Majesty's Consular officers in China, Japan by Sir Edward Hornby, Knight, pp. 2 and 3), but cases have often come under my notice where persons of Chinese descent have been recognized as British although not possessing the necessary qualifications of being born of parents, also born or naturalized in a British Colony. Consular officers have often been led into this error by certificates and passports granted by the Straits and Hong Kong Governments stating that the holders are entitled to British protection in China. Of late years, however, these certificates and passports are so worded as not to lead Consular officers into error. Where Chinese have, however, wrongfully been granted British nationality for many years it would seem a hardship to suddenly deprive them of it.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSHANGHAE FIRST RETURN,\n\n1.Liang Chüeh Weng.His father and mother were both born in Penang. He has a certificate stating that his father is entitled to protection as a British subject. His dress is Chinese.\n2.Liang Wei MingSon of the above. His birth is registered in His Britannic Majesty's Consulate General, Shanghae. His dress is Chinese.\n3.Liang Ch'i ChingSon of Liang Chüeh Weng. As above his birth is registered in the Consulate. His dress is Chinese.\n4.Tam Wa (Tom Waugh.)He was born in Hong Kong but no particulars can be procured about this man. His dress is European.\n5.Lou Chia Hock.Father and mother were born in Penang. His father's birth was registered there but he has no papers to establish the fact. His dress is Chinese.\n6.Kum SuFather and mother born in Penang. He has a certificate from the Government of Penang stating that Kum Allum, his father, is to be entitled to protection as a British subject. His birth is registered at this Consulate. His dress is Chinese.\n7.Kum Tex.Father and mother born in Penang. Cousin of the above (i.e., their fathers were brothers). He has no papers besides the Certificate of Registration. His dress is Chinese.\nWang Chin Tuan.Father and mother were both born in Penang. He was also in Penang and has a certificate entitling him to protection as a British subject from the Resident Councillor. His dress is Chinese.\nNg Hing ShangHis father was a Chinaman in the employ of the East India company in India, his mother Lachmi was a native of India. He holds a certificate stating that he was born in the Almora District, North-West Provinces. Signed by the Commissioner for the Almora District. His dress is Chinese.\nSom May.He is the illegitimate son of an English father and a Chinese mother. He has a certificate to this effect and stating that he was born on the 10th May. His features as well as his dress are quite European.\nFun How ChuFather and mother were both born in Penang. He has a certificate from the Governor of Penang stating that the bearer is entitled to protection as a British subject in Amoy. Dated the 5th March, 1872. He has been registered as a British subject for 30 years. His dress is Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 575, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "houses, and so forth-are complete. At the A-mi Concession there must be quite thirty Europeans, including two women and three children.\n\nThe people of A-mi appeared to be friendly. As I approached the town, I was addressed by one or two as \"Messer,\" and an old man of whom I inquired my way seized and shook vigorously my hand-the left hand-while he answered.\n\nThis friendly attitude may well in part be due to the little hospital which had been attached to the Construction Company's compound. The hospital is in charge of Dr. Sureaud and his \"infirmier.\"\n\nAs it was Dr. Sureaud who, in the absence of M. Garcia, acted as my host.\n\nThe next stage, Siao-lung-t'an, is only 16 kilom. distant, I did not start till after déjeuner on the second day (the 20th May), but took the opportunity to walk round the town, for the most part on the wall. The town is small, but even so a considerable space within the walls is occupied by vegetable gardens and banana or pomegranate plantations. On the west side are some temples, apparently in good repair, and a number of fine old trees. The place seems to have little or no trade, nor could I learn that there are any mines of value in the district, with one exception, to be noted presently. The future railway station is to be outside the town, on the north-east.\n\nAfter tiffin M. Savoyard, the sub-contractor, an Italian, rode with me to the end of his lot. He told me he had bought his tools and other implements at Hong Kong, for the contractors are free to procure them whence they please. He had paid some 500l. for them at Hong Kong, but their transport to A-mi had cost three times that sum. Work, I noticed, had been commenced at several points along the line, notably at the tunnel connecting the A-mi Plain with the valley of Pei-ta Ho, and at the further tunnel at the entrance to the Pei-ta Ho gorge. We followed the service road which joins these points and mounts the side of the gorge above the tunnel. On the way, M. Savoyard pointed to a village near which, he said, is a copper mine that would repay exploitation by Europeans. At the tunnel by the gorge were a couple of white men, one of them an elderly Italian who had been with M. Savoyard in Macedonia. Their lodging is a hut of four tiny rooms. In one of these tea was served to us, stewed in a saucepan and poured out, leaves and all, into thick glass tumblers. The river water is undrinkable during the rains, which had evidently begun up country; for the stream was of a bright orange colour, a colour it retained as far as the I-liang Plain.\n\nFrom this tunnel commence the defiles of the Pei-ta Ho, defiles that continue with brief intervals till the I-liang Plain is reached. The \"trace\" keeps to the right bank up to the first of these intervals, an amphitheatre on the southern edge of which is the contractor's post of Siao-lung-t'an (kilom. 237). Here the railway is to cross to the left bank, where it remains till past Lu-feng Ts'un (kilom. 345). Only one bridge, as I understand, is to be of iron; all others will be built of stone.\n\nAt Siao-lung-t'an the railwaymen had no temple for their base, but were obliged to erect everything themselves. Here I found M. Serpieri, an Italian, and his wife who, thanks to M. Guibert's circular, were expecting me, and received me most hospitably. M. Serpieri was at first employed in the Nam-hti Valley, but, as his health was greatly suffering, succeeded in effecting an exchange. There were half-a-dozen other Italians, surveillants and \"tâcherons,\" in the compound, which was so full that I had to take for my bedroom the office, while my servants camped out under their bell-tent.\n\nThe next day (21st May) M. Serpieri showed me the way past some railway embankments on the comparatively level ground of the amphitheatre, to the river side, after which it was impossible to miss my road, the \"chemin de service.\" The scenery becomes presently most remarkable. On the right hand is a towering precipice; on the left the river describes a double S curve, having in each concave bend a lofty crag topped with pines. The railway, keeping now always to the left of the stream, runs parallel to the line of the precipice, piercing by tunnels the great banks which join precipice to crag. Near the second of these tunnels I met two Italians, who asked me if it was true that I was in charge of Italian interests.\n\nI replied that I am in charge only of British and Austrian interests: on which one of the two observed that he had understood from his Minister at Peking that they would be able to refer to me. The Italians along the line, he added, were now about 1,000 in number, of all grades from chief of section to a foreman. They were not altogether satisfied with the condition of affairs, and, as I understand, had telegraphed to their Minister accordingly.\n\nPage 9\n\nI tiffined in a cavern by the side of the service road, still in the gorge. About 4 o'clock the country again opened out, and in less than an hour later Ta-lung-t'an was reached. The \"dragon spring\" is a tank up which wells a strong and steady stream.\n\nNailed to a tree hard by was a board with the inscription \"Chalet de Tao-long-tang,\" and beside it a long flight of steps led up to the temple occupied by a sous-chef, M. Chevalier, and his assistant (\"conducteur\") M. Lebadie. The former was away, but the latter received me and most amply entertained me. I spent the night in the quarters of his absent chief, with every comfort—I might say, with every luxury. M. Lebadie told me that a large part of his duties consists in arranging for the purchase of land for the line; and that when the prospectors first appeared the farmers used to turn out with guns to warn them off. The people were now, however, accustomed to the sight of the \"yang-kuan\" (foreign official—the stock term for the railway man) and no longer threatened them.\n\nBy the Regulations land should be purchased by the officials; but, as I was told elsewhere, if the contractors waited till this was done work would never begin. The Provincial Government, in answer to remonstrances from the French Consulate-General, pleaded want of funds. The Canton Viceroy had been instructed to assist his colleague of Yün-kuei, but all his spare cash had gone in the attempt to suppress the Kuangsi rising. Finally, the Railway Company had offered to advance 2,000,000 dollars. Even so the Company would, M. François told me, be paying twice over for the land; because they found it more satisfactory to purchase themselves direct from the owners than to await the slow results of mandarin action. On the other hand the Chinese (not the officials only) complain of hasty and high-handed proceedings on the part of the engineers and contractors, who will endeavour to hustle the East. It is fortunate for the peace of Yunnan that quite 90 per cent. of the line passes through uninhabited mountains, where tunnelling disturbs no one's ancestors, and there are no paddy fields to be smothered by rubble.\n\nThe railway track keeps close to the river, and so passes at a little distance to the west of the \"Chalet de Tao-long-tang.\" I did not, in fact, again strike the track till about 11 in the forenoon of the next day. M. Lebadie rode with me to La-li-hei, about an hour's journey north, to the spacious temple filled with railway plant and occupied by the contractor for the 17th-19th \"lots,\" M. Parboni. He was away along the line, but two of his associates received us. After a stay of an hour or so I left, in the company of M. Kalos, a young Greek, who acts as paymaster for the line between La-li-hei and Yunnan-fu. The road, leaving the river, mounts a plateau sparsely planted with pines and walnuts; then, after traversing a poor village, skirts some reservoirs (at present half dry) and descends abruptly through a valley inhabited chiefly by Lo-los, a not uncomely race. Where this valley joins the Pei-ta Ho the service road recommences. Following this I arrived at midday at the hut of M. Poirçon, a French \"conducteur,\" where I was presently joined for tiffin by M. Kalos, who had stayed behind to make sure of his treasure train. The Company remit to Europe, free of charge, such portions of each employee's salary as the recipient may desire; the balance is paid in piastres, and these it is M. Kalos' duty to distribute.\n\nM. Poirçon's station is the last point south of Posi where work on the actual line is being conducted. The service road, indeed, thence to Posi has only lately been finished. Round a bend just above this station magnificent cliffs shut in the river. Here a \"barque,\" a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, is kept for the service of the Company, and in this M. Kalos and I took passage, sending our baggage ahead by the \"chemin de service,\" cut into the almost precipitous east side of the gorge. We were punted or hauled up stream, frequently running aground, until we began to despair of reaching our destination by dinner-time. Night had, in fact, fallen before we emerged from the defile into the Posi Plain. We stumbled along a broken stone road round three sides of a wide stretch of paddy ground, until at last, at half-past 9 o'clock, we found ourselves in the temple compound occupied by the chief of section and his staff. The Chief was ill and in bed, but his kindly assistant, M. Vialard, though himself far from well, and Mme. Vialard, were most good to us. I spent the night in the newly-erected offices, rooms absolutely bare; but the traveller in Yünnan would be only too content if he could always get quarters equally clean and dry.\n\nThe Plain of Posi is evidently not healthy, and I can answer for it that it can be exceedingly hot. The crops then (May 23rd) showing above ground included cotton and sugar-cane, proofs of a tropical climate. I do not think that any railway work (beyond the housing of the staff) has yet been begun on Posi Plain. It was not until\n\nPage 572", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397055, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 349, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "## Confidential\n\nNo h \n\n346 \n\nEnclosure 21 bearer Despatch of 22/9/05. \n\n**C. O. 37732 (5. 23 X 16)**\n\n## British Consulate Hankow 12 September 1905\n\nYour Excellency \n\nI have the honour to confirm my telegram of yesterday, No 7, reporting the execution by the Viceroy Chang and myself at Wuchang on the 7th instant of the enclosed Agreement by which the Government of Hong Kong lends to the three provinces of Hupei, Hunan & Kuangtung the use of one million one hundred thousand pounds sterling for the purpose of buying back from the American China Development Company the concession for the construction of the Canton Hankow railway granted on 4 April 1898.\n\nThe Viceroy and Vice Consul and myself were the first to witness that the purchase money (£2,090,806) has been duly paid by the Chinese Minister and its final resumption contract executed so that the danger to which His Majesty's Minister had first called his attention of the Canton Hankow line falling into the same hands as controlled the Pei-Han railway has ceased.\n\nThe Viceroy begged me specially when telegraphing to convey to Your Excellency and to His Majesty's Minister at Peking his sincere appreciation of the manner in which you had come to the aid of China and himself. He would not fail to lay stress on Hongkong's assistance and the extreme fairness of the terms of the loan when sending the text of the Agreement to the Wai-wu-pu; and he felt confident that this would facilitate any negotiations with China in which the Colony may be engaged far better than if he actually advocated meeting your wishes as to the Canton Kowloon railway. When I asked to see the arrangement so as to give the Colony first option of providing capital, matériel and half the engineers having charge of the Canton Hankow line as of any railways requiring foreign aid and built in Hupei and Hunan, His Excellency bade his Secretary draft a letter, which, as I understood that His Excellency might not be at Wuchang indefinitely, he agreed to a formal despatch, copy and translation of which I have the honour to enclose.\n\nThe negotiations for the present loan were, so far as I can learn, unknown outside until a late stage though circumstances compelled us to employ a consulate writer to copy the Agreement.\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nYour Excellency's \n\nobedient Servant, \n\n[Signature not clear]\n\n## Mayr Sir Matthew Nathan K.C.M.G. \n\nGovernor of Hong Kong \n\nPage 13 \nPage 12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# imposing guild-houses and Yamêns, and row of substantially-built shops facing the water-front, Nanning presents the appearance of a rich and flourishing city. One is naturally led to compare it with Wuchow, which the Chinese place second to Nanning in point of importance, but which, after visiting all the principal towns on the West River from Kongmoon to Nanning, I am inclined to think, should now occupy the first place. Nanning is undoubtedly the larger city of the two; its population is estimated at 120,000, as compared with the 60,000 of Wuchow; its streets are larger, its shops more numerous, its guild-houses richer in appearance. But as regards its shipping, and what I may term movement of the port, Nanning falls far behind its smaller rival. The presence of river steamers, the constant coming and going of launches, the row of floating hotels and shipping agencies, the forest of junks in the Fu Ho, the foreign buildings which are now springing up along the water-front, all give to Wuchow an air of bustle and prosperity which is wanting at Nanning.\n\nThe afternoon of our arrival I called, accompanied by Captain Noble, on the Taotai and principal local officials. The former sent chairs, with an escort of twenty foreign-drilled soldiers headed by drums and bugles. As we proceeded through the city, and were received at the Yamên with salutes and guards presenting arms, I could not help contrasting our welcome with the reception accorded the first Englishman who visited Nanning—Mr. Moss—who came here in 1870 as the Representative of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. He was not even allowed to land, the officials refused to meet him, and during the few hours he remained here his boat was bombarded with stones by the crowds which lined the bank. The Taotai, Tu Cheng-ko, a native of Anhui and a protégé of Viceroy T'sen, received us most courteously, and seemed willing to afford me all the information he could. He at once referred to the opening of Nanning as a Treaty port, and mentioned that he had instructions from the Governor to arrange for the laying out of a foreign Settlement. To the best of his belief, the Chinese Government intended to open the port at no distant date. No progress, he said, was being made with the French railway from the frontier, and no survey had yet been made of the line between Langchow and Nanning. He gave me the impression that the Chinese authorities are not at all anxious to see the railway completed to Nanning, and that they are anxious to see Nanning a Treaty port for political reasons. From the French Father whom I afterwards visited, I learnt that work on the railway was suspended owing to the lack of funds, and the Commissioner of Customs at Lungchow has since informed me that a Representative of the Colonial Government is now in Paris trying to raise a loan for the purpose: the Chinese Government, however, are placing obstacles in the way, as they wish to build the Chinese portion of the line themselves, employing, of course, French engineers.\n\nThe Taotai—who, as Intendant of the Tso Chiang (Left River Circuit), is in command of the South-West Military District—informed me that the country round Nanning was fairly free from brigandage, but that towards Taiping and Lungchow marauding bands of Marshal Sa's disbanded soldiery were still terrorizing the countryside, and rendering the river between Nanning and Lungchow unsafe for travellers except under strong military convoy. He said the crops promised well and that the export of sugar (which has practically ceased owing to successive bad harvests) is reviving.\n\nThe Taotai returned our call on the following morning and showed me a sketch-plan of the proposed foreign Settlement. On my expressing a wish to inspect the site he first offered to accompany me himself, but later in the day excused himself and sent instead three deputies, who, as permanent residents, were able to give me some interesting information on local matters. I shall refer to the question of Nanning as a Treaty port and the site of the Settlement in the next section. Our visits to the other officials call for no remark.\n\nI subsequently called at the French Mission and saw Father Thomas, whom I had known some years ago in Wuchow. The mission is headed by a Bishop—Mgr. Lavest—who has the Red Button of the Second Rank. He was unfortunately absent at the time. The French School—an imposing white building, with red-tiled roof, just opposite the Taotai's Yamên—is maintained by the Colonial Government, and is in charge of three Marist Friars. They had left for Canton on the morning of my arrival and the school was closed for the summer holidays, so I had not the opportunity of visiting it. The school has at present about forty pupils—ages ranging from 14 to 19—who are being educated with a view to future employment on the railway. On my expressing surprise that the French Government should allow this school to be managed by members of a religious Association, the Father exclaimed somewhat bitterly that the French Government, while they persecuted the Church at home, were only too ready, when it served their purpose, to make use of her sons abroad. The Father informed me that the city was ravaged annually by plague and cholera; he estimated that no less than 9,000 persons had been carried off by these two diseases last year. He said the people were quite friendly to foreigners and that mission work was progressing well. I may here mention that the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Wuchow have a station at Nanning; the missionaries in charge were, however, away at the time of my visit.\n\nFather Thomas told me that the French Consulate at Lungchow was now in charge of an Agent Consulaire, who was also Customs Doctor. There was really nothing for a Consul to do there but issue passports to Chinese proceeding to Tonquin. From the Commissioner previously referred to, I learn that his post is also somewhat of a sinecure. Owing to the heavy duties levied on the French frontier, Lungchow derives almost all its supplies from Nanning, and the bulk of these are carried in native craft. The total value of the trade coming under the cognizance of the Maritime Customs in 1902 was only seventy-seven thousand odd taels, and of this amount 65,000 taels worth was forwarded into the interior under transit-pass. Were: Nanning made a Treaty port, the raison d'être for the foreign Customs at Lungchow would, I think, cease to exist, the French Consulate would probably be transferred to the former place.\n\nThe environs of Nanning are devoted to market gardening, the surrounding districts produce all the best known products of Kuangsi: rice, sugar, hides, oils, aniseed, wood, tea, and ground nut paper, camphor, and all kinds of medicines. The bulk of this produce is brought down under transit pass and shipped by steamer to Hong Kong. Through Nanning, too, pass the products of Eastern Kueichow and Yunnan, en route to the coast, opium, medicines, oils, and hides. Nanning, as I have indicated above, derives its supply of foreign goods almost entirely from Hong Kong and Canton delta via the West River; the principal firms have agents in Wuchow, who purchase and forward the goods, in the case of imports from Hong Kong, under transit pass. The foreign imports into Nanning are practically identical with those appearing in the Wuchow Customs returns, chief among them being Indian cotton yarn, oil (Sumatra), piece-goods, and foreign sundries, such as flour, lamps, and matches.\n\nAs an instance of what ill-considered protection does for the manufactures of Tonquin, I may mention that Japanese matches are laid down in Nanning at 5 taels the case, while Tonquinese matches, on the rare occasions when they reach Nanning, cost 8 taels a case. The former have come nearly 2,000 miles, the latter about 200. In the course of my walks through the city, I noticed the usual display of foreign goods, chiefly of Japanese and German origin. I saw one or two large shops for the sale of foreign medicines, including brandy, mineral waters, and bovril. Everything that I priced was much more expensive than in Wuchow, but it is possible the shop-keepers quoted special rates for our benefit. My Chinese writer and official messenger were both, for various reasons, unable to accompany me on this trip, so that I found some difficulty in making myself understood by the shop people, who are for the most part Cantonese. The natives of Nanning speak a dialect near akin to Mandarin. The business of the city is in the hands of men from the delta, in particular the Sunui district, and from Fukien.\n\nI gathered that the trade of Nanning is reviving after a long period of depression, but is still hampered by the insecurity of the waterways leading to the Yunnan frontier, and lately by the sudden imposition of a new scale of native customs dues, called \"Tungshui.\" I have already referred to this subject in my Intelligence Reports. The effect of the new duties is clearly seen in the large number of transit passes which are now being applied for to purchase produce in the Nanning and Posé districts. The merchants of Nanning engaged in foreign trade are unanimous in desiring the opening of the port, which they take for granted would mean the presence of a British Consul. I could not learn what particular advantage they expected to derive from the latter's advent, but there exists undoubtedly a strong feeling amongst native merchants on the West River that wherever a British Consul is stationed there will be freedom of trade and protection from the exactions of the local authorities. Whether this good opinion be merited or not, I did not feel called upon to disabuse them of their idea.\n\nNo organized mining is carried on in the Nanning district, but coal for local consumption is imported from Posé. Attempts have been made to use this coal for steaming purposes, but it has been found to be quite unsuitable, being, like all native... \n\nPage 307 \nPage 9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# the peace of the border and to prevent the Sawbwas being subjected to oppression and extortion on our account or on any other account.\n\nWhen such cases occur, the Consul must largely be guided by the opinion of the Government of Burmah in the particular matter. If the Shan State involved is far from the frontier and the trade routes, and no charges of intriguing with the outer people have been preferred, the advisability of Consular intervention would be doubtful, but when a charge of imaginary treason with Burmal is trumped up, or when, as in the case of Kangai, the Sawbwa, attacked is one—the security of whose State is essential to the peace of the border and the due exercise of our own commercial rights, then the case for intervention is very strong, and so long as I have the honour to be employed here, I propose to intervene, subject to any instructions that I may receive to the contrary.\n\nI am now addressing a note to the Taotai, in which I assume, in order to \"save his face,\" that the Mang Shih and other cases have been the work of his subordinates. I call upon him to take efficient measures to suppress the practice of extortion of the frontier Sawbwas, and inform him that any further abuse of the name of the Government of Burmah in connection with such unsavoury affairs will be at once referred by me to His Majesty's Minister, and is likely to lead to unpleasant consequences to the officials concerned.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. \n**(Signed)** \nG. LITTON.\n\n## Extract from Intelligence Report, Tengyueh, January 30, 1905.\n\n### State of the Frontier.\n\nIn January 1905 a meeting took place near Meng Mao on the frontier, between the British officials and Ma, the Chinese Frontier Commandant, and the representatives of the Shan Sawbwas.\n\nPractically all the outstanding Bhamo cases concerning frontier matters were settled, and the stolen property or its equivalent handed over to us, while we had to pay to Meng Mao 185 rupees in respect of two cases where the offenders were British subjects. The Consulate records are not quite complete, but since the last frontier meeting in January 1904, when fourteen small cases were outstanding, thirty Bhamo frontier cases have been reported, all, with one exception, through the Deputy Commissioner, making in all a total of forty-four frontier cases for the year. There were no serious raids into British territory, and the cases were mostly minor cattle thefts. All but four cases have been settled; of these four, one is serious, consisting of robbery with deadly weapons, just on the Chinese side of the border when a caravan of five beasts, belonging to a British Chinaman who was badly shot in the thigh, was carried off by Pang Wai Kachins; the animals have been recovered, but we propose in this case to endeavour to extract further compensation. The other three unsettled cases are petty matters which will, I hope, be soon adjusted. Since the meeting, a bad case of robbery with violence on a Chinese Shan by British Kachins has been reported from Lung Chuan (Meng Wan), and is under inquiry.\n\nThe property and money restored by the Chinese to British subjects represents a value of 2,500 rupees (about) for the year 1904-1905.* \n\nVarious \"frontier cultivation\" cases were also gone into. The Boundary Commissioners agreed that any cultivation rights exercised in China by British subjects, or in Burmah by Chinese subjects, should be preserved to them by mutual Agreement, after demarcation, but might not be extended. Under this arrangement, it appears that the Chinese subjects who cultivate in our territory are more numerous than the British subjects who cultivate in China. If, then, as the Chinese Chefang Sawbwa demands, we withdraw our cultivators from his State, other Chinese Sawbwas must withdraw their cultivators from British territory, and in the end, China would be the loser. It is hoped that no further friction will occur as to these cultivation questions, which, if not dealt with, are liable to lead to serious affrays.\n\n*As against forty-four cases, 3,000 rupees, for 1903-1904.\n\nPage 425\n\nOn the whole, there is a distinct improvement in the condition of the frontier so far as international matters are concerned, and in the manner in which the Commandant on the Chinese side deals with cases. Considerable credit is due to him, though, of course, the line of posts and the considerable force of frontier military police which the British maintain is the real guarantee of peace along the border.\n\nThe Meng Mao Sawbwa is decidedly more awake to the necessity of keeping his frontier in order than he was; but his Shans still have to pay blackmail to Kachins. The internal condition of Meng Wan (Lung Chuan), on the other hand, is going from bad to worse, and, generally speaking, it is still true that Burmah is put to a heavy expense for the maintenance of military police on the border, who would not be necessary if the Chinese Administration did its duty. In no single frontier case were the guilty parties punished; for the Chinese to punish a Kachin would probably mean a punitive expedition against his village, or the commencement of a feud between the man's relatives and the local Chinese. Commandant Ma is anxious to avoid anything of that kind. The total sum which he receives for the upkeep of two regiments (nominally 450 men), including arms, ammunition, equipment, food, clothing, and housing is only 28,000 rupees a-year at most. If he indulged in any fighting, he would have to pay even for the cartridges used. What he practically does is to take a contract, by which he agrees with the Tengyueh officials to keep the frontier reasonably quiet, and to satisfy the British officials when cases do occur.\n\nSo long as they are not pressed to take any troublesome action or to cash up money, and so long as their conduct is not officially impugned by the Consul, the Tengyueh Mandarins do not care in the very least what happens on the frontier. Of course, Commandant Ma has really only some 100 men in all. The mere fact that he does his duty to a certain extent, that he is on good terms with the British officers, and that by personally moving up and down the frontier, often, horrible to relate, in a short coat and straw sandals, he manages to settle cases to which we call his attention, have been a fruitful source of spiteful accusations against him by the gentry and yamên folk at Tengyueh, but I have done what I can to support this energetic, if illiterate, officer.\n\nIt must be admitted that the precise means by which Ma gets satisfaction for us in these cases are not quite clear, and probably involve some injustice, though less than would be entailed if we get no satisfaction at all. Sometimes he makes the Sawbwas pay blackmail to redeem the stolen cattle from the Kachin thieves; sometimes he makes the Sawbwas produce other cattle or rupees, which, as likely as not, are extracted from the unlucky villagers. In some cases, I think that Ma pays himself. He is generally supposed to make some 5,000 rupees a-year clear profit out of his office, so if he occasionally has to pay a few hundreds, no great harm is done.\n\nThe Chinese Kachin villages responsible for these offences and the offenders' names are well known, both to the British and the Chinese officials; the exemplary punishment of two or three villages and the establishment of military posts among them by the Chinese would doubtless cause an almost entire cessation of frontier crime, and it may be thought that we ought to press energetically for the immediate undertaking of military operations by the Chinese.\n\nThe Kachin districts which, though within the Chinese border, are under no sort of effective control, are—\n\n1. A large tract near the Burmah frontier among the hills which rise above the right bank of the Taping River (excepting the Peng Hsi hill, which is under control). This uncontrolled tract stretches north along the frontier of our Burmah and Mytkina districts. The names of the villages are unknown to the Tengyueh officials. Nothing which happens there is ever reported to them, save occasionally by the Consul; no taxes are paid, and, in fact, China has no more control over these hills than if they were in the centre of Africa.\n\n2. Further south, on the left of the Taping River, the hills which form the divide between Labsa and Lung Chuan are in a very similar condition, except where the main track crosses the hills. One group of villages on this range, Pang Wui, is close to our border, and is responsible for many frontier crimes.\n\n3. The Kachins, who inhabit the divide between Meng Wan (Lung Chuan) and Meng Mao, are practically independent. This range stretches for some 30 miles, and in no part of it, except along the main route from Meng Mao to Meng Wan, is there a particle of Chinese authority.\n\n4. The Kachins in the hills all round Chefang are also quite independent of control. All the Sawbwa can do is to prevent the wild men raiding his plain, and he cannot always do that.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403208, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# SOUTH-WEST CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### No. 1\n\n115\n\n[July 17]\n\n## SECTION 1\n### (No. 9.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\n**Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received July 17.)**\n\nHis Majesty's Consulate, Teng Yueh, June 11, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to draw your Lordship's attention to the question of the proposed light railway from Bhamo to Teng Yueh.\n\nOwing, as I understand, to pressure of other work, Mr. A. Lilley, the Engineer-in-chief selected by the Government of India for the survey of this line, and his staff, did not reach Bhamo till April. It was therefore impossible to complete the work before the commencement of the rains rendered further operations impossible, but I understand that some progress was made towards a detailed survey between Bhamo and the Chinese frontier by Mr. Lilley's assistants.\n\nMr. Lilley, who has much experience in this particular kind of work, made a reconnaissance as far as Teng Yueh, and returned to the frontier after having spent about four weeks on the Chinese side.\n\nIt would, of course, be out of place for me to attempt to anticipate his official report; but I may mention that his first impressions appear to be favourable. He is of opinion that the line is quite feasible and would not be excessively expensive, though there are two short sections which would undoubtedly be costly; but the total length from Bhamo to Teng Yueh would probably not be over 125 miles.\n\nAs a quite rough estimate I understand that Mr. Lilley puts the cost at £750,000, but this depends largely on an uncertain quantity, namely, the amount and the quality of local labour available. Comparing the populousness and fertility of the country which the line would traverse with districts already traversed by Indian railways, Mr. Lilley is of opinion that the line may reasonably be expected to pay; such an opinion from an officer of so much experience is important. Mr. Lilley's suggestion to me was that he should, as soon as the rains are well over, say in November, return with his party and make a final and definite survey, including the pegging out of the line. Such a survey would necessitate the cutting of a path along the cliffs near the Taping River in Chinese territory in places which would otherwise be inaccessible.\n\nIf, as I anticipate, a favourable report is received from Mr. Lilley, I am of opinion that, in view of the progress which the French railway is now making, the policy of pressing forward the final survey of the Bhamo-Teng Yueh line will probably commend itself to your Lordship and to the Government of India.\n\nIn this case, I would venture to point out that, in order to avoid loss of time, it is advisable that the negotiations necessary to obtain the requisite concession for the construction of the line from the Chinese Government should proceed concurrently with the detailed survey, and that the character of this survey should also be explained to the local authorities, as otherwise they may raise objections to the cutting of paths and the planting of pegs in their territory.\n\nIn view of the concession granted to the French for a railway to the provincial capital, the Mandarins can hardly refuse to us this concession for 90 miles in a remote part of their territory which is chiefly inhabited by non-Chinese tribes; but that there will be obstruction, delay, and tergiversation may be accepted as exceedingly probable. I understand that the Viceroy of Yunnan has already mentioned to the Consul General that the Yunnan Government would probably wish to construct the part of the line which would traverse Chinese territory themselves, as it is out of the question that they could raise the capital, or if they could raise the capital that they could construct the line, or if they could construct the line that they could manage it when constructed; such a proposal must be regarded as a Chinese device to stave off the whole scheme.\n\nAs the line is in some measure an answer to the French railway, it is essential that it should be constructed as quickly as possible; as the total length is only to be some 125 miles, it is essential that the whole line should be under one control, and that that control should be British.\n\n`[2079 r-1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "242 \n\n2 \n\nThis telegram supplied the material for a Parliamentary question addressed by Sir Gilbert Parker to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the 19th April. Earl Percy replied: **\"No information of the acts alleged in the question has reached us. Such acts would be violations, not of the Treaty of 1902, but of Treaties concluded with China at an earlier date. His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been informed, in reply to his inquiries as to the steps which had been taken to carry out the provisions of Article II of the Treaty of 1902, that the Office of Financial Administration has presented a Memorial to the Throne proposing the establishment of a general Mint at Tien-tsin for the coinage of silver and copper and the introduction of a uniform national coinage. As soon as definite arrangements have been made they will be communicated to Sir E. Satow. With regard to the Mining Regulations, the Chinese Government state that Regulations have been drawn up, but that it is necessary to consult the provincial authorities before the final arrangements could be settled.\"** \n\nOn the 20th April a Reuter telegram was sent out from London, and in due time published in Shanghai, which ran as follows: **\"Lord Percy said that no information had reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty.\"** \n\nThree days later a letter signed \"E. S. Little\" was published in the \"North China Daily News,\" of which I beg to inclose a copy. I beg to call your Lordship's attention to the opening sentences of this letter, inferring on the authority of the Reuter telegram that the British Government is absolutely ignorant of the existing state of affairs in China. If His Majesty's Minister to China and the Consuls have reported home the number of cases of Chinese evasion of Treaty obligations the Government will be unable to state with truth that no information has reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty. If British officials in China have not informed the Government, it is high time the British mercantile community should step in and supply the necessary information to our badly-informed Government.\n\nThe remainder of Mr. Little's letter to the paper is in great part an anticipation of the statements contained in the letter of the Shanghai merchants to your Lordship. \n\nIn pursuance of the desire expressed by your Lordship that I should furnish my observations on the questions raised by the signatories of the telegram, I have the honour, with regard to the general statement that China ignores the Commercial Treaty, to point out that of the fourteen Articles which it contains the following have been fulfilled since the exchange of ratifications took place on the 28th July, 1903, or are in process of fulfilment.\n\nI. Drawback Certificates. \nIn regard to this Article a difference of opinion occurred between the Taotai and His Majesty's Consul-General, but representations were made to the Chinese Government by His Majesty's Legation which resulted in its removal, and no further complaint has been received. \n\nV. Removal of artificial obstructions to navigation in the Canton River. Reports on this subject were forwarded in despatches Nos. 135 of the 21st April, 144 of the 24th April, 168 of the 12th May, and 389 of the 15th November, 1904, besides others sent direct to your Lordship's Office from His Majesty's Consulate-General at Canton. \n\nVI. Bonded warehouses. \nSee my despatch No. 12 of the 13th January, 1904, and inclosure. \n\nVII. Trade-marks. \nIt cannot be fairly alleged that China has neglected this question, or neglected to make proposals for the enactment of a trade-mark law, as the voluminous correspondence between your Lordship's Office and His Majesty's Legation sufficiently proves. \n\n3 \n\nX. Inland Navigation Rules and opening of Kongmoon. \nReports were furnished in despatches Nos. 18 of the 18th January, 45 of the 2nd February, 128 of the 12th April, 130 of the 13th April, and 416 of the 7th December, 1904. The ports of call and passenger stations mentioned in this Article were all opened by the 1st March, 1904. The question of licensing launches to run to Nanning and Pose is still a subject of discussion with the Canton Viceroy. \n\nXIV. Interport transport of rice. \nAfter some correspondence with the Chinese authorities, the export of rice was allowed from Chinkiang under certain limitations, which, though contrary to Treaty, were accepted by British merchants. I inclose an extract from Mr. Tratman's Intelligence Report for the March quarter 1905, bearing on this question. On the 23rd September, 1903, the Governor of Hunan was informed by His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Hankow that a limited permission to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. and Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to export rice from Changsha would be accepted as a temporary measure only, and that we should insist on our Treaty rights. \n\nIn regard to Articles III, duties and li-kin levied on goods carried from Hong Kong to the Treaty ports in the Canton Delta, and IV, obligations of Chinese shareholders in foreign Companies, no questions have arisen. \n\nArticles XI, XII, and XIII contain undertakings on the part of His Majesty's Government of which occasion for fulfilment has not yet presented itself. \n\nThe execution of Article VIII, abolition of li-kin and substitution of a surtax on imports, depends on the adhesion of all the other Treaty Powers.\n\nArticles II, the establishment of a uniform national coinage, and Article IX, the revision of the existing Mining Regulations within twelve months from the 5th September, 1902, have not been carried into effect. \n\nProceeding to comment on the points raised in the Shanghai letter, it may be observed that to reform the currency system of China so as to bring it into conformity with that prevailing in most civilized countries is a task of considerable magnitude, and the negotiators of the Treaty wisely fixed no limit of time within which it must be accomplished. The existing system has been described in great detail in two articles which appeared in the \"Times' Financial and Commercial Supplement\" for the 13th and 20th March of this year, and the obstacles to reform are very well stated by the writer. Not long after the Mackay Treaty was signed the United States, at the request of Mexico and China, appointed a commission of experts to confer with leading European financial authorities, official and non-official, with regard to the best method of harmonizing the currency systems of these two silver-using countries with those of the countries which possess a gold standard. In 1903 they reported, and early in 1904 Professor Jenks, the most prominent member of the American Commission, paid a visit to China, in the course of which he discussed with the leading authorities, both provincial and metropolitan, an elaborate series of proposals for the regulation of Chinese finance and the adoption of the gold standard. Reports of his proceedings appeared in the local press, and at one time there seemed no small reason to hope that he would succeed in his endeavours. The Chinese Government, however, eventually decided against the acceptance of Professor Jenks' plans, and resolved to begin with the reform of the copper currency.\n\nA sketch of the proposed course of procedure, as given by the Chinese Minister for Finance, was contained in my despatch No. 150 of the 2nd May to your Lordship. In that despatch I mentioned the apprehensions entertained by foreign business men with regard to the apparently unrestricted coinage of the new 10-cash copper piece. The Chairman of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce has since addressed to the Diplomatic Body a letter, giving information with regard to the provincial copper mints, and pointing out the danger of depreciation of the new coin. To this letter a reply has been sent asking for further and more precise details. A copy of this correspondence is inclosed, and it is probable that a representation on this subject will be addressed to the Chinese Government by the Diplomatic Body. It is also reported that the Board of Revenue is alive to the necessity of controlling the issues by the provincial mints, and I have the honour to inclose translation of a Memorial on this subject, which, though not going as far as could be desired in the direction of supervision and control, is still a considerable step in advance. \n\nIn the meantime it may be noted that the \"North China Daily News\" of the 6th July states that a careful analysis has been made of 10-cash pieces from various", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## \n\nThis telegram supplied the material for a Parliamentary question addressed by Sir Gilbert Parker to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the 19th April. Earl Percy replied: **\"No information of the acts alleged in the question has reached us. Such acts would be violations, not of the Treaty of 1902, but of Treaties concluded with China at an earlier date. His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been informed, in reply to his inquiries as to the steps which had been taken to carry out the provisions of Article II of the Treaty of 1902, that the Office of Financial Administration has presented a Memorial to the Throne proposing the establishment of a general Mint at Tien-tsin for the coinage of silver and copper and the introduction of a uniform national coinage. As soon as definite arrangements have been made they will be communicated to Sir E. Satow. With regard to the Mining Regulations, the Chinese Government state that Regulations have been drawn up, but that it is necessary to consult the provincial authorities before the final arrangements could be settled.\"**\n\nOn the 20th April a Reuter telegram was sent out from London, and in due time published in Shanghae, which ran as follows: **\"Lord Percy said that no information had reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty.\"**\n\nThree days later a letter signed \"E. S. Little\" was published in the \"North China Daily News,\" of which I beg to inclose a copy. I beg to call your Lordship's attention to the opening sentences of this letter, inferring on the authority of the Reuter telegram that \"the British Government is absolutely ignorant of the existing state of affairs in China. If His Majesty's Minister to China and the Consuls have reported home the number of cases of Chinese evasion of Treaty obligations the Government will be unable to state with truth that no information has reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty. If British officials in China have not informed the Government, it is high time the British mercantile community should step in and supply the necessary information to our badly-informed Government.\"\n\nThe remainder of Mr. Little's letter to the paper is in great part an anticipation of the statements contained in the letter of the Shanghae merchants to your Lordship.\n\nIn pursuance of the desire expressed by your Lordship that I should furnish my observations on the questions raised by the signatories of the telegram, I have the honour, with regard to the general statement that China ignores the Commercial Treaty, to point out that of the fourteen Articles which it contains the following have been fulfilled since the exchange of ratifications took place on the 28th July, 1908, or are in process of fulfilment.\n\n1. Drawback Certificates\n\nIn regard to this Article a difference of opinion occurred between the Taotai and His Majesty's Consul-General, but representations were made to the Chinese Government by His Majesty's Legation which resulted in its removal, and no further complaint has been received.\n\nV. Removal of artificial obstructions to navigation in the Canton River\n\n| Despatch No. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 135 | 21st April, 1904 |\n| 144 | 24th April, 1904 |\n| 168 | 12th May, 1904 |\n| 389 | 15th November, 1904 |\n\nReports on this subject were forwarded in the above despatches, besides others sent direct to your Lordship's Office from His Majesty's Consulate-General at Canton.\n\nVI. Bonded warehouses\n\nSee my despatch No. 12 of the 13th January, 1904, and inclosure.\n\nVII. Trade-marks\n\nIt cannot be fairly alleged that China has neglected this question, or neglected to make proposals for the enactment of a trade-mark law, as the voluminous correspondence between your Lordship's Office and His Majesty's Legation sufficiently proves.\n\nX. Inland Navigation Rules and opening of Kongmoon\n\n| Despatch No. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 18 | 18th January, 1904 |\n| 45 | 2nd February, 1904 |\n| 128 | 12th April, 1904 |\n| 130 | 13th April, 1904 |\n| 416 | 7th December, 1904 |\n\nReports were furnished in the above despatches. The ports of call and passenger stations mentioned in this Article were all opened by the 1st March, 1904. The question of licensing launches to run to Nanning and Posé is still a subject of discussion with the Canton Viceroy.\n\nXIV. Interport transport of rice\n\nAfter some correspondence with the Chinese authorities, the export of rice was allowed from Chinking under certain limitations, which, though contrary to Treaty, were accepted by British merchants. I inclose an extract from Mr. Tratman's Intelligence Report for the March quarter 1905, bearing on this question. On the 23rd September, 1903, the Governor of Hunan was informed by His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Hankow that a limited permission to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. and Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to export rice from Changsha would be accepted as a temporary measure only, and that we should insist on our Treaty rights.\n\nIn regard to Articles III, duties and likin levied on goods carried from Hong Kong to the Treaty ports in the Canton Delta, and IV, obligations of Chinese shareholders in foreign Companies, no questions have arisen.\n\nArticles XI, XII, and XIII contain undertakings on the part of His Majesty's Government of which occasion for fulfilment has not yet presented itself.\n\nThe exception of Article VIII, abolition of likin and substitution of a surtax on imports, depends on the adhesion of all the other Treaty Powers.\n\nArticles II, the establishment of a uniform national coinage, and Article IX, the revision of the existing Mining Regulations within twelve months from the 5th September, 1902, have not been carried into effect.\n\n## 3\n\nProceeding to comment on the points raised in the Shanghae letter, it may be observed that to reform the currency system of China so as to bring it into conformity with that prevailing in most civilized countries is a task of considerable magnitude, and the negotiators of the Treaty wisely fixed no limit of time within which it must be accomplished. The existing system has been described in great detail in two articles which appeared in the \"Times' Financial and Commercial Supplement\" for the 13th and 20th March of this year, and the obstacles to reform are very well stated by the writer. Not long after the Mackay Treaty was signed the United States, at the request of Mexico and China, appointed a commission of experts to confer with leading European financial authorities, official and non-official, with regard to the best method of harmonizing the currency systems of these two silver-using countries with those of the countries which possess a gold standard. In 1908 they reported, and early in 1904 Professor Jenks, the most prominent member of the American Commission, paid a visit to China, in the course of which he discussed with the leading authorities, both provincial and metropolitan, an elaborate series of proposals for the regulation of Chinese finance and the adoption of the gold standard. Reports of his proceedings appeared in the local press, and at one time there seemed no small reason to hope that he would succeed in his endeavours. The Chinese Government, however, eventually decided against the acceptance of Professor Jenks' plans, and resolved to begin with the reform of the copper currency.\n\nA sketch of the proposed course of procedure, as given by the Chinese Minister for Finance, was contained in my despatch No. 150 of the 2nd May to your Lordship. In that despatch I mentioned the apprehensions entertained by foreign business men with regard to the apparently unrestricted coinage of the new 10-cash copper piece. The Chairman of the Shanghae General Chamber of Commerce has since addressed to the Diplomatic Body a letter, giving information with regard to the provincial copper mints, and pointing out the danger of depreciation of the new coin. To this letter a reply has been sent asking for further and more precise details. A copy of this correspondence is inclosed, and it is probable that a representation on this subject will be addressed to the Chinese Government by the Diplomatic Body. It is also reported that the Board of Revenue is alive to the necessity of controlling the issues by the provincial mints, and I have the honour to inclose translation of a Memorial on this subject, which, though not going as far as could be desired in the direction of supervision and control, is still a considerable step in advance.\n\nIn the meantime it may be noted that the \"North China Daily News\" of the 6th July states that a careful analysis has been made of 10-cash pieces from various...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403533, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 442, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Acting Consul Litton to Government of Burwah.**\n\nTengyueh, May 20, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward, through Mr. Leveson, copy of my Report on the undelimited northern frontier.\n\nThe original is going to Sir Ernest Satow, while the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Consul-General at Yünnan-fu will shortly receive copies.\n\nA list of inclosures is attached.\n\nI shall again address you when I am able to state exactly what the Taotai proposes to report to his Government.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**Report on a Joint Survey of the Burmah-Yünnan Boundary, north of latitude 25° 35′ north, by British and Chinese Officials, March to May, 1905.**\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n### 1. Composition and Duties of the Party.\n\nIN February 1905, I received instructions from the British Minister at Peking to proceed as British Representative on an expedition for the joint examination by British and Chinese officers of the Burmah-Yunnan border, north of latitude 25° 35′ north, the farthest point of previous demarcation. The party, which it was agreed should start from Kuyung, in Chinese territory, 27 miles north of Tengyueh, about the 3rd March, was composed as follows:-\n\n1. Burmah party, in charge of Mr. Leveson, LC.S., Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, consisting of a survey party of three subordinate surveyors under Munshi Abdul Kahim, who was detailed by the Survey of India for this service; an escort of forty military police, of whom thirty were Gurkhas and the rest Kachin or Lisu sepoys from the Bhamo hills; and of several native followers of Mr. Leveson.\n\nLieutenant Lakin, 92nd Punjabis, who was on leave, accompanied Mr. Leveson, and very kindly placed at my disposal his knowledge of Hindustani and Kachin.\n\n2. The Chinese party, under Shih Hung Chao, Taotai of West Yünnan. This consisted of a personal guard of twelve men and an escort of forty \"braves,\" but half of these gallant fellows ran away from Kuyung when they heard that the Taotai had forbidden looting, and intended to be obeyed, and then there were only twenty; of several deputies, of whom the senior was the expectant District Magistrate, Tai Wei Hsiang; of three \"surveyors\" from Yunnan-fu, so-called on the lucus a non lucendo principle, for, with perhaps one exception, none of them had the least notion of surveying; and an \"interpreter\" so dubbed on the same principle, but he was ejected from the camp at an early stage of the proceedings for attempting to \"squeeze\" villagers.\n\n3. Mr. Litton, Acting Consul at Tengyueh, was on duty as British Representative. The Consulate writer, Han Wei Tsu, accompanied the party.\n\nThe instructions issued to me by Sir Ernest Satow, and to Mr. Leveson by the Government of Burmah, were to the effect that the party was to examine, but not to delimit, the frontier. We were to explain to the Chinese, on the spot, precisely what His Majesty's Government meant by the N'Maikha watershed, to discover if the Chinese had any authority beyond that watershed, and, if not, to impress the fact upon the Taotai. The Government of Burmah's instructions also contemplated arrangements being made for the extinction, by payments on a liberal scale, of any rights to petty dues or otherwise which Chinese Headmen might be found to possess on the west side of the watershed. The instructions plainly stated that the Government of India had no intention of abandoning the position; that the water-divide was the only acceptable division of the spheres of influence of the two Governments.\n\nWe were also to collect as much geographical information as we could about an almost unknown country.\n\nThe instructions which the Taotai received from Yünnan-fu were to the effect that he was to examine the country in co-operation with us, and to report what territories were governed by the various Chinese Headmen. The term used (and this is important) was \"chih-li,\" which, I submit, implies more than vague claims of suzerainty, and signifies rather actual administrative control.\n\nArticle V of the Burmah-China Convention of 1897 contemplates the demarcation of this northern section of the frontier, when both parties had acquired further information. Since the date of the Treaty various inquiries by British officers, notably by Mr. Hertz, C.LE., had greatly added to our knowledge of the country. We made it a chief object of the present expedition so to supplement the information already acquired, especially by mapping, that His Majesty's Government should be in a position to clearly demonstrate to the Chinese the reasonableness of the position which has been taken up as to this section of the frontier, and to refuse to consent to the expense and trouble of further Boundary Commission in respect of it. I hope that this Report, and the map which accompanies it, will enable a Boundary Treaty to be concluded at London or Peking without any further joint inquiries on the spot, which, indeed, we would strongly deprecate.\n\nIt is hardly necessary to add that, until the date of the Taotai's departure for Kuyung, when I explained to him the general geography of the country, the Chinese officials had remained in a state of Cimmerian darkness as to the physical conditions of the country which they claimed. They had not advanced beyond the statements of the Yunnan Government, addressed to His Majesty's Minister through the Peking Foreign Office in 1904, to the effect that-\n\n1. There was no such river as the N'Maikha;\n2. That the divide in the locality in question was at the foot of the mountains (in spite of the suggestive Chinese saying that water does not flow up);\n3. That the small river, i.e., the Ngaw Chang, does not flow into the Lu Chiang or Salween.\n\nAs regards geographical information, I regret that we were not able to do as much as we had hoped. The fact is that the orders were issued much too late in the season. The experience of Captain Pottinger in 1897, of Mr. Hertz in 1900, and of myself in 1904 all go to prove that heavy snow and rain may be expected during the spring in these hills, which seem to be the abode of all the thunder and wild demons in the country. As no supplies are to be got near or beyond the watershed, even a small party such as Mr. Leveson's must have a train of some 150 mules. Towards the end of the open season, and at such short notice, good transport in a condition for hill work is not to be obtained. We began operations with a downpour of snow, hail, rain, and sleet, which continued for thirteen days and practically closed all passes over 9,800 feet for mule traffic, while tracks which were practicable were none the less turned into quagmires. Mr. Leveson lost thirty mules dead crossing the first pass on the frontier, and all of us, including the Taotai, incurred heavy extra expense for the hire of porters to enable us to get along. I calculate that we were delayed quite three weeks by weather alone.\n\nAfter inquiries at Kuyung, we proceeded north one day's march, 13 miles, and entered the Tan Tsa Valley, the heart of which is a paddy plain, about 2 miles by 1 mile, at an elevation of 6,500 feet. It contains six villages with some 200 families in all, half of which are Lisu (in Burmese Yaw Yin) and half Chinese, the whole subject to a petty Headman of Lisu extraction, who is under the jurisdiction of Tengyueh. To the north of the main valley of Tan Tsa a number of spurs run up northwards towards the watershed range which stretches round Tan Tsa in the shape of a huge bow, drawn towards the north; from this range spring the numerous sources of the Ta-ping River, of which the three most important are the Ta Cha, the Tan Tsa, and the Lun Ma Streams, which join at San Chao Ho (Tripod River), 4 miles west of Tan Tsu, to form the Upper Taping, which finally joins the Irrawaddy near Bhamo.\n\nThe whole of the hilly country north of the Tan Tsa Valley up to the bow of mountains which forms the watershed is entirely uninhabited, while there is also a wide uninhabited strip beyond the watershed on the N'Maikha side. The west end of the bow is Manung Pum, 10,000 feet, the \"high conical peak\" of the Convention, and the most northerly point of the demarcated frontier. Under this peak there is a track, impassable for mules, leading from Jan Tsa to Maiku, a Kachin village on the Upper Shi-Ngaw River in British territory, in two days some 20 miles. The east end of the bow, bearing north-east from Tan Tsa, is a conspicuous jagged peak (12,000 feet) known as Laug Ya, or Wolf's Tooth Mountain. The Lang Ya peak is astride of the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406019, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 561, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "COPY. No. 158.)\n\nEulorum 6. &- Soul Peopard _xijinfók-\n\nino.\n\nIKEC\n\n14567\n\nReef 1 5536\n\nH.B.M.Consulate-General,\n\nCanton, 26th October, 1906.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nReferring to your letters of the 22nd and 25th instant relative to the appointment of an Assistant Engineer for the Canton-Hankow Railway, I have the honour to state that I have just had a long conversation with Mr. Kwong Suen now Chief Engineer of the projected line. I began by pointing out to him that, though we did not assume any right to dictate what foreigners should or should not be appointed to assist in the construction of the Railway, it would, after the special assistance given by the Government of Hongkong to enable China to redeem the concession, be considered both by us and by other nationalities as an intended slight if at any rate the head of any foreign staff engaged were other than an Englishman. That I thought a courteous and punctilious nation like the Chinese should be able thoroughly to understand our feeling in such a matter. Mr. Kwong said he quite appreciated the situation.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir Matthew Nathan,\n\nK.C.M.G.,\n\n&c.\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406874, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY.\n\nThe facts are probably known to Sir Edward Grey and having regard to the gravity of the situation, we trust that he will be so good as to cause us to be informed what steps are being taken to protect our interests.\n\nThe win 3022 not print\n\nAssociated as we are in this business with the Colonial Government of Hongkong, we have also addressed the Colonial Office on the subject.\n\nWe are &c.,\n\n167\n\nMINUTES of First Meeting held at His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General, Canton, on Monday 18th December 1905, between the Viceroy of Canton's Deputies and the representative of the British and Chinese Corporation Limited.\n\nPRESENT:- Messrs. Wei, Wen and Kung representing the Viceroy of Canton and Mr. C.H.Ross representing the British and Chinese Corporation Limited. Mr. Tebbitt, His Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul being also present.\n\nThe British and Chinese Corporation, Limited,\n\nper.\n\nW. Keswick.\n\nChairman,\n\nAfter the customary compliments, Mr. Wen explained that as the Viceroy's Deputies were ignorant of the details of the proposals to be made, all that could be done at this meeting would be to receive the proposals of the Corporation; after studying which the Deputies could explain them to the Viceroy and take his instructions thereon.\n\nMr. Ross then presented the Deputies with copies in English of the proposed Loan Agreement and Schedule, also with a Chinese translation of these documents. In presenting these, Mr. Ross explained that there were drafted in the names of Sheng Kungpao and the Imperial Chinese Railway Administration, but as negotiations were now transferred to Canton, the necessary alterations in names could be made if", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407080, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 376, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "206\n\nSe881\n\nLavel S MUL\n\n06809\n\ncuit sobaqani um að #onensten AJK\n\nof sworn at avut I,***[~\n\nBowman samali † fin?le dowwgAMT\n\nM 1. ** Iarona - Icanod #lyze\n\nede\n\nEnclosure in Sir C. Satow's No.160 of April 9th, 1906.\n\nNo. 2.\n\nCanton-Hankow railway resumption loan: forwards extract from Viceroy Chang's memorial on.\n\nThe inclosures.\n\nM. Consul-General Fraser to Sir C. Satow.\n\n18892\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Consulate-General, Hankow.\n\n(22nd March, 1906.\n\nReceived (14th April)).\n\nJUN 2 1906,\n\nI have the honour to forward in Chinese with an\n\n370\n\naccompanying translation an extract from the Viceroy Chang's memorial on his redemption last autumn of the China Development Company's concession for the construction of the Canton-Hankow railway, as published in the Universal Gazette of the 15th instant.\n\nThis account of the negotiations is far from agreeing with the facts established in our telegraphic correspondence, these facts being probably garbled to make a better defence against the attacks which have been made on him for borrowing from England to pay off America instead of freeing the enterprise from all foreign shackles.\n\nThus,\n\nHis Excellency's omissions seem to me serious. Besides keeping silence as to the Wai Tu Pu's communication to you of the Decree approving the loan, he implies that the loan was absolutely unconditional. His Excellency's despatch of 9th September, which was enclosed in my despatch No. 45 of the following day, can be construed to make the privileges given us dependent\n\nSir Ernest M. Satow, G.C.M.G.,\n\nHis Majesty's Minister,\n\netc. etc. etc.,\n\nPeking.\n\non\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 566, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "COPY OF JULY\n\n.8601\n\nDesers 150\n\ndoda es\n\n# nso, nglexol a to dravs\n\nnap azi yoroDAUGAT WEH #1\n\n#tit to sno od doje no\n\narte non 50 Bead bna\n\nvari Saoly of an\n\nتها عند الساعة\n\nExclosure in M. Carnegie's No 255 of June 7th 1906.\n\nM. Consul General Fraser to Carnegie: Hankow-Canton Railway resumption and building: forwards.\n\n557\n\ncopy and translation of Viceroy's defence of his action.\n\nCopy\n\nNo 34.\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Consulate-General, Hankow.\n\n26th May, 1906.\n\nRec. 30th,\n\n0.\n\n30324\n\nRec'd 17 AUG 1906\n\nBegging reference to Sir Ernest Satow's despatch No 26, of 9th December last and my reply, No 66, of 18th December, I have the honour to forward copy and translation of His Excellency Chang's detailed defence of his policy in regard to the Hankow-Canton railway resumption loan and proposed construction loan.\n\nThe Viceroy's account of his negotiations with us is not strictly accurate but it is gratifying to find him and the Hunan gentry, usually called the strong reactionaries, really an advocate of a loan on reasonable terms, while it is the progressives T'ing-fang and his friends who from personal motives prevent England and China from arranging for the prompt construction of the southern trunk line.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nHon. L.D. Carnegie, C.V.O.,\n\nH.B.M. Chargé d'Affaires,\n\nH.B.M. Legation,\n\nPekin.\n\nConsul-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407574, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "34\n\n8\n\nauthorities informed, and I have to instruct you, the Taotai, to take steps at once in conformity therewith,\"\n\nI, the Taotai, have informed the Magistrate of Hai Cheng for his guidance, and have also to address you begging that you will take note of the foregoing and act accordingly.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Fulford to Governor-General Chao.\n\n(Seal of the Taotai.)\n\nNewchwang, June 28, 1906. ON the 14th instant I received a despatch from the Shan Hai Kuan Taotai to the effect that on the 8th June he had received your instructions as follows:-\n\n\"The Treasury and the Board of Foreign Affairs report as follows:- \"We are in receipt of your Excellency's instructions to consult and report upon a despatch from the British Consul, Newchwang, of which you send us a copy. accordingly the honour to observe that it has been the practice for the Customs Taotais We have to stamp the deeds and levy duty in cases in which the subjects of foreign nations have leased land in perpetuity in China, Such business has been no concern of the District Magistrates. The matter may therefore be left for the Customs Taotai's Yamên to deal with. But by the Treaties the subjects of foreign nations are not permitted to buy land or houses outside the Treaty port Concessions. In the present case it is impossible to decide beforehand whether San Chia Tzu will be included in the Concession at Yingkou (Newchwang), and the question of the land perpetually rented by the British merchant, Wilson, must await the settlement of the Concession's limits. The deed cannot be registered at present. I (the Tartar General) have indorsed this Report, and have to instruct you (the Taotai) to take action accordingly.'\n\n>>\n\nThe Taotai therefore addressed me requesting me to take note of the Report and act in accordance therewith.\n\nI have the honour to state that the practice formerly prevailing in this port when British subjects perpetually leased houses or land was that the deed should be sent by the Consul to the Customs Taotai, who ordered the District Magistrate to stamp the deed and levy duty. Subsequently when the Customs Taotai left Newchwang this Consulate sent deeds direct to the District Magistrates of Hai Cheng and Kaichou. The proposed change of procedure that the Taotai should stamp the deeds would involve a long delay, for there is no date fixed for the resumption of the Taotal's residence at Newchwang, and perpetual leases of property by British subjects are matters of frequent occurrence.\n\nWith regard to the statement that foreign subjects are not permitted to buy land or houses outside Concession limits, there is no such stipulation in the Treaties, and no such limitation has been in force in the various Treaty ports. Moreover, there has been no Concession at Newchwang, and for the past forty years British subjects have acquired a large amount of land and houses in the vicinity of the port, a proceeding fully justified by the provisions of Articles X1 and XII of the Tien-tsin Treaty,\n\nThere is no grave objection to the suggestion of the Treasury and Foreign Board that land-deeds should be stamped by the Customs Taotai, but I find myself entirely unable to acquiesce in the proposal that land matters should await the definition of a Concession before being dealt with in accordance with Regulations.\n\nAt the present time Mr. Wilson has perpetual leases for land both in the Hai Cheng and Kaichou district, and there are several other merchants who have acquired land subsequently to Mr. Wilson. Long delay would be detrimental to these persons' interests, and I would therefore beg your Excellency to obviate such delay by instructing the Taotai or the District Magistrates to continue the previous practice of stamping the deeds and returning them to me.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. E. FULFORD.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\n9\n\nInclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\nGovernor-General Chao to Consul Fulford.\n\nKuang Hsü, 32nd 6th\n\n(July 25, 1906).\n\nyeur,\n\n5th day moon,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch (of the 28th June), in which you state (despatch quoted in extenso),\n\nI lost no time in handing this despatch (to the Board of Foreign Affairs) for consideration, and am now in receipt of their report, as follows :----\n\n\"This matter has been repeatedly discussed by this Board with the Treasury, and it was decided that when a foreign Settlement had been demarcated action would be again taken in accordance with the Regulations. The Consul, however, says in his despatch that he cannot acquiesce in this delay. He also says that there is no stipula-tion in the Treaties that foreign subjects are not permitted to buy land or houses outside Settlement limits, and that no such limitation has been in force in the various Treaty ports. This Board would observe that the Treaties contain a stipulation granting missionaries permission to purchase property outside Settlement limits on behalf of their missions. This is plain proof that, with the exception of missions, no foreign subjects whatever may purchase property outside the Settlements. The Consul, however, obstinately insists on the former irregular practice of the port. Unless this practice be forthwith remedied, endless abuses will result from its absolute want of definiteness. It is therefore impossible to agree thereto.\n\n\"We therefore beg your Excellency to inform the Consul, in reply, that action in the matter must be temporarily postponed as decided in the first instance.\n\n\"We have the honour to submit this report on our discussion of this question for your Excellency's consideration and action.\"\n\nThis report I have indorsed, and have the honour to communicate it to you for your information,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Seal of the Military Governor.)\n\nInclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Carnegie to Consul Fulford.\n\n(No. 18.) Sir,\n\nPeking, August 13, 1906. WITH reference to your despatch No. 44 of the 30th July on the refusal of the Chinese authorities to register title-deeds for land bought by British subjects at the Treaty port of Newchwang, I am inclined to agree with you that political considerations have some bearing on the Chinese attitude in this matter. I shall be glad if, as soon as you have taken over the new post of Consul-General at Mukden, to which you have just been appointed, you will call on his Excellency Chao Erh-hsun, the Military Governor, and thoroughly explain the full nature of the Treaty rights in respect to the purchase of land at Treaty ports. You should also take the first opportunity of discussing the subject with the Shanhaikwan Taotai, Mr. M. T. Liang, and pointing out the untenable character of his statements to the Military Governor that the international Treaties only permit missionaries to buy land for the erection of mission premises outside of Concessions,\" and that, \"apart from this the merchants and subjects of foreign nations are not allowed to acquire land or houses outside Concession limits.\" These statements are so absurd that I can scarcely understand their being seriously urged by Mr. Liang, who is well acquainted with the Treaties and the privileges conferred on foreigners under them.\n\nAs you mention that Mr. Wilson's land at San Chia Tzu might be thought to lie beyond the reasonable limits of the Treaty port area at Newchwang, it would seem to me advisable to separate his case from the others in which no such doubt arises; but in any event I shall not address the Wai-wu Pu on this subject until I learn the result of your interviews with Governor Chao and Taotai Liang.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nL. D. CARNEGIE.\n\n;\n\n0\n\n.....", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "...me that I may live through these three years and I \nwill return to China at once to see all my relatives \nagain and will then be free from my anxiety and be \nglad.\n\nThe cause of my confinement is due to the \ncovetousness of Chan Leung Yan, Mang Mau, Un Shun and \nNgan Chun, the four headmen, who are so wicked that \nthey only look after their purses being well filled with \nno regard to the danger of their brothers and relatives.\n\nWe cannot do anything here but I hope that \nthose gentlemen in all parts of the world by whose \nkind heartedness the world is benefited will help us \nto return to China. Such action will be remembered \nby us for thousands of years. Every one is anxious \nto obtain help.\n\nFrom Chong Wing.\n\n## 6.\n\n**BRITISH CONSULATE, \nAPIA, SAMOA** \n41360 \n**REC'd 10 NOV 1906** \n74 \n3rd September 1906.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt \nof your communication No.`4672/08/C.S.O.` dated 24th \nJuly last, with its enclosure, and will obtain and \nforward at an early date a report on its subject from \none of the Chinese residents in Apia.\n\nI have &c., \n(Signed) \nT. Trood. \n**Acting British Vice Consul**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "# Page 144\n\n## Document\n\n2\n\n-032 taels, but that exemption from coast-trade duty is granted under an old rule of thirty years' standing in return for services rendered to the State by the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company. And his Excellency denies that this is a contravention of Article XIV of the French Treaty.\n\nIt would appear at first sight that the question involved is the application of the coast trade duty Regulations. I inclose for your information a précis which will furnish an outline of the history of the subject, and show how the Regulations of the 30th October, 1861, came to be issued and the coast-trade privilege conceded to foreign shipping. So far as I am able to judge, these Regulations and the subsequent Treaties lay no obligation on the Chinese Government to levy a coast trade or any other duty on Chinese produce borne coastwise, and for local consumption in Chinese bottoms. They seem free to tax such merchandize as they please, and if it entered into the plans of the Chinese Government to follow the example of Japan, and encourage the formation of a mercantile marine by special revenue or financial arrangements, I know of no Treaty provisions which could be advanced in opposition other than the Article XIV of the French Treaty already relied on by Sir E. Satow.\n\nOn the point of monopoly it seems to me that the contention of the Viceroy that the privileges accorded to the China Merchants' Company are payment for services rendered to the State---justifies me in referring the matter for your consideration before pressing it further at the Wai-wu Pu. It is known that this Company does perform State services, such as the carriage of the tribute rice at special rates, and though the form of payment disclosed in the correspondence herewith may be objectionable to our shipping firms, there is, if eventually the Chinese Government could be brought to vary it, nothing to prevent them from arranging a secret drawback, or, in the last resort, an open subsidy.\n\nIn any case I do not see my way to supporting Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's application of the 28th October, 1905, to the Imperial Maritime Customs at Tien-tsin. British subjects are entitled to transit passes inwards for foreign goods and outwards for native produce purchased by them in the interior, but in the present instance Messrs. Butterfield and Swire applied for an \"overland pass\" to cover native goods not their property (they are only the carriers) for sale at an inland place (Kalgan) which is not a Treaty port. The Treaty provisions governing the overland trade are the Russian Land Trade Règlement of the 12th (24th) February, 1881, of which Article 16 forbids the transport by Russian subjects of Chinese-owned goods, and Articles 8 and 10 impose penalties on the sale of Russian-owned goods en route at Kalgan or elsewhere.\n\nIt is important to remember that the privileges complained of have been enjoyed by the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company for some thirty years, and though, as Messrs. Butterfield and Swire point out, the way is open, if these privileges cannot be attacked, to further preferential treatment in items of coasting trade, as a matter of fact there has been no attempt of recent years, so far as I am aware, on the part of this Chinese Company to add to the advantages in this respect acquired long ago. I am not sure that an argumentative discussion on the subject might not direct their attention seriously to the possibilities open to them, for however natural it may appear to a British firm to wish to consider themselves entitled to the same advantages as a Chinese firm, it is evident that in matters of purely domestic trade the Treaties do not entitle them to such a position as a matter of right.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(No. 15.) Sir,**\n\n**(Signed)**\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nConsul-General Hopkins to Sir E. Satow.\n\nTien-tsin, February 14, 1906.\n\nMR. EDKINS, the representative at this port of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, has on several occasions lately consulted me on a subject which his firm, if possible, is very anxious to bring within their business activities. This is the transport by the steamers of their line of brick tea to Tien-tsin, and its conveyance thence, under overland passes, to Kalgan, on the same terms as are in force for brick tea shipped by vessels of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of a letter, dated the 9th instant, which Messrs. Butterfield and Swire have addressed to me on this question, in which they explain fully what they desire, and put forward the grounds on which they base their request to be allowed to take part in this branch of trade.\n\nMuch as I should like to see British shipping firms enjoying a share of this large carrying business, I have told Mr. Edkins that I feel very doubtful if the Treaty provisions which he cites in his letter will sustain the claim. But much will depend on the interpretation to be given to the words of Article XIV of the French Treaty of 1858: \"Aucune Société de commerce privilégiée ne pourra désormais s'établir en Chine, et il sera de même de toute coalition organisée dans le but d'exercer un monopole sur le commerce.\" Messrs. Butterfield and Swire would argue that the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, in view of the privilege granted to it in 1884 by the late Viceroy Li Hung-chang, referred to in their letter, has become a \"Société de commerce privilégiée\" within the meaning of the French Treaty. I cannot myself adopt this view, but being unwilling to stand in their way in such an important matter, I have the honour to refer the question of their rights in this respect for your consideration.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed)**\n\nL. C. HOPKINS.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire to Consul-General Hopkins,\n\nTien-tsin, February 9, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to our conversation on the subject of the privileged treatment accorded by the native authorities to shipment of native brick tea by the steamers of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, we beg to request you to lay the matter before His Majesty's Minister at Peking, for his consideration and guidance as to the best means of securing a share in the carriage of this trade for British steamers.\n\nFor this purpose we submit the following facts:\n\nOn the 28th October last we applied to the Customs as follows:\n\n\"Kindly grant us an overland pass for 1,000 packages brick tea to Kalgan. This cargo came forward per Nanchang from Foochow, and weighs 1,110 piculs. We inclose letter of guarantee that same is to be sold in Kalgan.\n\n\"We wish to import this cargo and transfer it to Kalgan under the lowest terms and charges as granted for other similar importations.\"\n\nThey replied:\n\n\"Gentlemen,\n\n\"Your application for an overland pass re brick tea to Kalgan has been refused by the Customs Taotai, who states that he is in the habit of granting such passes to merchants of Russian nationality only.\n\n\"I return herewith your letter of guarantee.\n\n\"I am, &c.\n\n**(Signed)**\n\nR. F. HEDGELAND,\nActing Deputy Commissioner of Customs.\"\n\nAs we applied for importation and transfer to Kalgan under the lowest dues, such as are granted to the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, this reply is evasive, which the Customs semi-officially admit. They further inform us that the Customs Taotai will not discuss the privileged terms granted to the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, nor will he seriously consider the question of most-favoured-nation treatment which naturally applies in view of what he writes. They add that they cannot press the matter further, and refer us to our Consulate.\n\nWe have reason to believe, from private information, that the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's representative has heard of our application for the same privileges as they enjoy, and that he has taken steps to acquaint the native authorities concerned of the undesirability of their monopoly being in any way interfered with.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n340\n\ni\n\n2\n\nThe Chinese local authorities agree to carry on or complete all public building operations effected, or planned but not yet effected, by the Japanese Military Administration.\n\n3. By the third Article of the Peking Memorandum, \"the control of the police and the preservation of order shall revert to the Chinese local authorities, who are expected to fulfil the duties connected therewith in the manner most beneficial to the public peace. Japanese police and medical officers shall be employed to assist in the performance of these duties, and the Japanese Consul shall be free to point out defects as occasion arises to the local authorities for their consideration.\" The Deputies of the two countries have now arranged that, except as regards salaries, the regulations for the employment of Japanese police and medical officers shall be in all respects the same as in the case of the employment of Japanese police and medical officers at Tien-tsin. If defects should hereafter arise in the management of the police or the preservation of order, the local authorities shall, on being informed by the Japanese Consul, take them into consideration.\n\n1. The Chinese local authorities shall not hold a new trial of any causes determined by the Military Administration. The Court records and notes in these causes shall be handed over by the Military Administration to the local authorities for preservation in their archives; and the Military Administration shall also take a copy of them for preservation in the archives of the Japanese Consulate at Newchwang.\n\n5. The fourth Article of the Peking Memorandum provides that \"the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs and Native Customs shall revert to the Customs Taotai. The Chinese Government shall for the time being deposit the receipts of both Customs establishments in the Yokohama Specie Bank until a branch of the Board of Revenue Bank is established, when the receipts will be deposited in both Banks.\"\n\nIt has now been arranged by the Deputies of the two countries that the local officials concerned shall make arrangements in consultation with the Yokohama Specie Bank respecting the mode of depositing the Customs' receipts in the Yokohama Specie Bank at Newchwang.\n\n6. The Japanese Military Administration of Newchwang agrees to withdraw entirely by the 6th December.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[2106]`\n\nNo. 1.\n\n`[January 19.]`\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n**C. O.**\n\n7655\n\n**RECE**\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received January 19, 1907)\n\n28 FEB 07\n\n(No. 33.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu. December 3, 1906.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 32 of the 20th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copy of a further communication to the Government of Burmah on the subject of the Tengyueh Railway and the Tali reconnaissance.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Government of Burmah.\n\n(No. 50. Burmah.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, November 30, 1906.\n\nA LITTLE more than a fortnight ago the document, of which I inclose translation, was posted outside the head office of the so-called Yünnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways Company, and at one or two other places in this city. It remained up but a few days, and it is only recently that I have been able to secure a copy of it.\n\nI imagine its origin to be this: In consequence of the telegram, dated the 3rd October last, from your Government telling me that the correspondence of 1902 that passed between Sir E. Satow and the Wai-wu Pu might be cited as giving us equal advantages with the French, I had more than once quoted from the Wai-wu Pu's communication of the 16th March of that year. The Chinese officials steadily declared that no copy of this communication is to be found in the archives of the Yunnan Government, and more than one asked to see the text. A copy both of the communication and of that of Sir E. Satow (the 12th March, 1902), of which it is an acknowledgment, was finally given to them, and was, as I learn, shown to the Directors of the Yunnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways Company. These last thereupon drew up and issued their present poster, the object of which is to warn all patriotic Yünnanese to get beforehand with the British in building the Tengyueh line.\n\nThe authors of the poster (I am told it was drafted by Yang Chin-tung, the schoolmaster who spent three years in Japan) apparently admit that we should be justified in claiming equal privileges with the French, but naively believe that if we are confronted with a railway scheme for exclusive Chinese construction we shall not persist in what they are pleased to style our \"covetous desires.\" The characters I have translated \"privileges\" (\"li-yi\") are those employed in Sir E. Satow's despatch of the 12th March, 1902, and in the Wai-wu Pu's reply to it, a sufficient proof that the origin of the poster was as I have described it above. The statement that \"the movement of merchandize is far greater at Tengyueh than at Mengtzu\" is unfortunately not borne out by present facts, but it is doubtless good enough for a prospectus. The charge on the salt and grain contributions was explained in my despatch to you, No. 57 of the 22nd November last. It is claimed that, from these and other sources, 3,00,050 taels have already been raised, but I very greatly doubt the truth of this assertion.\n\nOn the 26th instant the two Superintendents (\"tsung-pan\") of the local Department of Foreign Affairs—the Judicial Commissioner, Ch'en Ts'an, and the Grain Intendant, Tseng-hou—called on me to introduce the new Assistant Superintendent, Tsou Chih-ching, who is replacing Kuei-fu, promoted to be Prefect at Cheng-chiang. After promising me, on behalf of the Governor-General, early replies to my despatches on the subject of the reconstruction of the boundary pillars eastward from Nalawt, and... \n\n`[2326 -2]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411447, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 624, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## having been 1,000 dollars per mensem in addition to a grant for lodging accommodation. In the end, Mr. Kuong promised to give me a definite reply when the new management had been organized.\n\nI have not, to date, heard from him again, but a few days back I received information to the effect that a Japanese engineer named S. Yamamoto had been engaged. I at once made inquiries of my Japanese colleague as to the accuracy of this report, which he confirmed yesterday, adding that Mr. Yamamoto has a three-years' engagement at a salary of 450 dollars a-month without allowances. His position is, however, subordinate to an Assistant Chinese Engineer, a former classmate of his in America, who goes by the name of “Johnson.” I took the opportunity to impress upon Mr. Uyono the British view that, in the light of China's obligation to us in the matter of the redemption of the former concession, the Deputy Chief Engineer should be British. This my colleague seemed to thoroughly understand.\n\nFinally, I can confidently give the assurance that the views of the Hong Kong Government have been made perfectly clear both to the late Viceroy and to Mr. Kuong. I intend now to approach his Excellency Chou Fu, laying stress on the opinion of His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, as expressed in his despatch to you No. 64 of the 29th October last, namely, that he could see no justice in the argument that the Canton Railway Company, being a commercial Company, was freed from the obligations incurred by the three provinces concerned in the autumn of 1905 to the Hong Kong Government and His Majesty's Representatives.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) R. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n618\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## CO.\n## CHINA RAILWAYS.\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n13726\n1 19 APR 07\n## SECTION 2.\n\n[March 23.] Free\n[9431]\n\n### No. 1.\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received March 23.) (No. 66.) Sir,\n\nPeking, February 4, 1907. ON receipt of your despatch No. 419 of the 30th November, 1906, I addressed a despatch to Mr. Fraser, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, asking him to report to me any information he might be able to obtain regarding the alleged formation of an Anglo-Japanese Syndicate for the construction of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, and the other statements contained in the French Ambassador's Memorandum.\n\nIn his reply Mr. Fraser states that Mr. Haraguchi was engaged as Railway Adviser by the Viceroy without any reference to His Majesty's Consulate-General, and that he does not promote any interests but Japanese. The Viceroy had always shown a desire to have British engineering aid for the Hukwang portion of the Hankow-Canton Railway, and Mr. Fraser surmises that his requests for the services of Mr. Kinder, or one of his assistants (see my despatch No. 541 of the 23rd December, 1906), are the ground for the French Ambassador's Memorandum, the facts in which agree with his reports. His Excellency had always combined the Hupei lines westward and southward in his suggestions for railway loans. The Central China Railways (Limited) was the only Syndicate of which Mr. Fraser had any knowledge, and on behalf of which he had approached the Viceroy. It was, of course, possible that such a Syndicate as that mentioned in the Memorandum was working through the Japanese Consulate, but Mr. Fraser thought that he would have heard of the fact.\n\nWith reference to the general question of railway construction in Hupei, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a letter which Messrs. Bland and Caseuave have addressed to the Board of Communications regarding the raising of foreign loans. Mr. Bland's interview with the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, referred to in this letter, was fully reported on in my despatch No. 540 of the 23rd December.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\nMessrs. Bland and Casenave to Board of Communications.\n\nYour Excellencies,\n\nPeking, January 16, 1907. WE have the honour, as joint representatives of the British and Chinese Corporation (Limited) and the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), to address your Excellencies in regard to the questions of railway construction in Hupei, &c., which formed the subject of conversation at our meeting at the Yu Chuan-fu on the 12th instant, and we now confirm the proposals which we submitted on that occasion.\n\nAs stated at that interview, it is the desire of the British Corporation we represent to enter into negotiations with the Chinese Government or its duly authorized Representatives for the construction of several railways projected in the central provinces, and more especially of the lines from Wuchow to Changsha (a section of the Yueh-han trunk line) and from Hankow to Tchang and Hsiang Yang. Your Excellencies are aware that on the 12th ultimo Mr. Bland had the honour of an interview with his Excellency Chang Chih-tung, when his Excellency expressed his earnest wish to proceed with these undertakings, essential to the commercial and administrative development of the territory within his jurisdiction, and intimated his readiness to construct the railways by means of foreign loans should the Central Government authorize him to do so. regards the Yueh-han trunk line, his Excellency was of opinion that under existing conditions it would not be advisable to consider the question of construction beyond Changsha, but for that section he would be glad to see a loan negotiated under conditions approved by the Central Government, and he anticipated no opposition", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411582, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "# Inclosure 9 in No. 1\n\n## Nanking Viceroy to Taotai Jui\n\nJanuary 15, 1907.\n\nI HAVE received your telegram of the 13th instant, stating that Consul-General Warren and Vice-Consul Barton ask for the details of the charges against Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi, and also for the evidence of the rebel Li, on account of this being an important case.\n\nThe rebel Li Fu Tsai was captured in the 9th moon, and stated in his examination that he was a leader of Yang-tsze River thieves and had a gang of some scores of men. Recently two Hunan men, Liu Cheng and Li Chao Mei, founded a Union Society which developed into the \"Ke Ming Chun\" Secret Society, and they persuaded him to join them. He knew well that Yuan Yueh Sheng, Huang Yi, Chang Pao Ch'ing, Chiang Yu Ch'uan, and others were ringleaders. Li Fu Tsai was executed summarily.\n\nIn the latter half of the 10th moon (beginning of December) the rebellion broke out in Ping Hsiang and Li Ling of a band calling themselves the \"Ke Ming Chun,\" ferocious in character, and rumours were widespread.\n\nThe rebels Yuan Yueh Song, Chiang Yu Ch'uan, Lung Chien Tien, Fu Yi Cheng, and others were captured in the neighbourhood of the capital, and according to their evidence the \"Head\" of the Society was Liu Chen, and the \"second\" was Li Chao Mei. Yuan Yueh Seng was a \"Lieutenant,\" and Chiang Yu Chuan a \"Military Chief.\" Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi were \"Advisers.\" Lung Chien Tien was a \"Holy Sage,\" Fu Yi Cheng a \"Superintendent.\" They all said they were on their way to the scene of the rebellion, where, trusting to the prevailing terror, they proposed to steal arms or to burn churches and so distract the attention of the troops from the rebels; thus they would obtain possession of the district and upset the Government.\n\nYuan, Chiang, and Lung were accordingly executed summarily, but Fu was kept to confront with Liu, Li, Chang, and Huang when captured.\n\nChang and Huang are ringleaders of the Ping Hsiang and Li Ling rebellion, which they hoped would spread to other districts, and this was testified to by Li and Yuan in their respective statements, and, moreover, there is the evidence of Fu, who is still alive, to the same effect.\n\nAccording to Chinese law the penalty is death at the least, and according to Western laws a severe penalty is called for.\n\nIn 1900 the rebel T'ang Tsai Chang lived on the Concession at Hankow, and proposed to create disturbance, but he was arrested, with the assistance of the British Consul there, and punished before his plans took effect. This action is still remembered with gratitude by the Hupei officials and merchants.\n\nThe case of Chang and Huang is the same as that of T'ang, and I am gratified to see that Consul-General Warren and Vice-Consul Barton share my hatred of criminals.\n\nYou should therefore consult with the Consul-General and request that Chang and Huang may be handed over speedily for transfer to Nanking, in order that they may be tried together with Fu.\n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1\n\n### Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Taotai Jui\n\nShanghae, January 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of yesterday's date, transmitting the evidence received by you from the Nanking Viceroy in the case of the prisoners Chang and Huang.\n\nAt a meeting of the Consular Body, held on the 15th instant, it was decided that, in view of the fact that these men were charged with a political offence, and of the importance of the case to the Governments of China and the foreign Powers represented at Shanghae, the request of the Viceroy for the rendition of these men should be referred to the Diplomatic Body at Peking for their decision.\n\nI have accordingly informed the Senior Consul of the contents of your despatch under acknowledgment and requested him to inform you as soon as the reply of the doyen is received.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Seal of His Majesty's Consul-General.)\n\n## Inclosure 11 in No. 1\n\n### Taotai Jui to Consul-General Sir P. Warren\n\nJanuary 18, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter informing me that at a meeting of the Consular Body on Tuesday, the 15th January, it was decided that as the offenders Chang and Huang were political offenders the matter would have to be referred to the Diplomatic Body in Peking, and their reply awaited, when a further communication would be made to me.\n\nI felt considerable surprise on hearing this. Mr. Vice-Consul Barton came to see me on the 12th instant to discuss this matter, and I informed him that rebellious persons had recently been in great force in China, that the Settlements had, as a matter of fact, been used by them as a retreat and harbour, and that if criminals of this kind were not swiftly and severely punished it was to be feared that the disorderly element would come to regard this port more and more as a strong refuge, and that, I pointed out, would injure the cause of good order as affecting both Chinese and foreigners.\n\nMr. Barton said that you were of the same opinion, and were not opposed to handing over the prisoners, but that, as to the facts against them, there was nothing but the statements of the officers who came to get them--at one time that they were \"Ke Ming Tang\" (revolutionary band), at another that they were denounced in the evidence of the criminal Li. Such evidence did not comply with the requirements of usual practice.\n\nAt this time I was in receipt of a telegram from the Viceroy addressed to you, of which I had a decypher prepared and which I produced to be handed to you. Mr. Barton stated that the case might have required the consideration of the Consular Body and definite instructions from the Ministers. That, however, would be a complicated and lengthy proceeding, to avoid which he proposed a modification. Would his Excellency the Viceroy send a copy of the record? It would then be possible to deal with the matter. He would return to the Consulate-General, and when a decision was arrived at a further communication would be made to me. The above was the purport of my conversation with Mr. Barton.\n\nOn the following day I received a letter from you in the terms of Mr. Barton's verbal communication, and I appreciated highly your sincerity and just treatment of the matter and your willingness not to set up bars to jurisdiction, and I communicated the above particulars to his Excellency the Viceroy by telegraph.\n\nNow Chang and Huang are men of the Kiangsi rebellion, who have given trouble to the people of the country, including Christians, and a general statement of the matter is given in the Viceroy's telegram to you of the 12th January. In your reply you state that if Chang and Huang are really of the revolutionary band (\"Ke Ming Tang\"), certainly assistance will be given in the matter. Now Chang and Huang call themselves \"Ke Ming Tang\" men, and you agree to help us in dealing with such. Why, then, do you now say that as they are political offenders reference must be made to the Foreign Ministers? If, the prisoners having been arrested in the Settlement, you were unable to take isolated action, but a consideration by the Consular Body was necessary, it would have done no harm to inform me, yet in your first letter in reply to me you make no mention whatever of that.\n\nTreaties provide that criminals of Chinese nationality shall be handed over on application by the Chinese authorities, and there is no provision as to political offenders or anything about holding them back until instructions are received; so that your letter is not only contradictory, but, in its terms, contrary to Treaty provisions.\n\nThe reasons given for a consideration of the matter by the Consular Body are-\n1. That these are political offenders;\n2. That it seriously concerns the Governments of all the Powers, and that therefore the Ministers must be applied to for directions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412024, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## On the 1st April I wrote to the Company's Agents, Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co., to inform them that, although you thought that it might be expedient for the Asiatic Petroleum Company to accept the Regulations of the Chinan-fu Settlement, you were unable to authorize me to sign the Agreement unless clause 2, which bound the lessee to obey those Regulations, were eliminated, adding that I should be glad to know their views as to whether they would be able to make an arrangement with the Chinese authorities without my official cognizance, as you had suggested.\n\nMessrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co. replied on the 8th April that there was nothing left for them but to see whether the Chinese were willing to make the Agreement with themselves, as agents of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and asked me to make the necessary inquiries at my earliest convenience and let them know the result.\n\nAccordingly I wrote on the 10th April to the Settlement Board to explain the position. The following day Mr. Munder, of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co., called to see me, and I went with him to call upon Mr. Li Te-shun, who had that day taken over the active duties connected with the management of the Board. I explained to Mr. Li Te-shun that it had become impossible for me to sign the Agreement, so that the lease ought to be arranged with Mr. Munder without any further reference to me, but that I should like a reply to my letter.\n\nOn the 13th April Mr. Li Te-shun came to the Consulate and showed me the draft of a letter which the Board proposed to address to me, and we had some conversation together. The position he took up was that my refusal to sign the Agreement had made it necessary to recast the lease, so as to make Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co. the lessee instead of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, in order that the signature of the German Consul might be attached to the Agreement. I observed that this involved in effect a refusal to lease land to a British Company. He replied that, so far as this was the case, the British authorities had only themselves to blame. If we could accept the Regulations, as the Germans were prepared to do, the Chinese were quite willing to rent land to British holders, but it would be quite contrary to the Regulations to grant land to any foreigner, except on the guarantee of a communication from his Consul. I told him that I should have to refer the matter to you and send you a copy of the Board's letter when I received it. He withdrew the letter as then drafted, and said he would write another.\n\nSeveral weeks elapsed, during which I heard no more from the Settlement Board. I sent my card two or three times to ask when I might expect a communication, and on the 30th April I wrote to ask for a definite reply to my previous letter. The answer I received on the 2nd May was that the Board were so busy with the changes involved in the appointment of a new Director that they had no time to write just then, but would do so later on.\n\nEventually, on the 20th May, I received the note, of which I have the honour to inclose copy and translation herewith, from which it appears that the land has been leased to Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co., and that Dr. Merklinghaus, the German Consul, has arranged for the issue of the deed.\n\nThe contention that a Consular communication of some sort is required for the lease of land under the Chinan-fu Settlement Regulations to a foreign lessee is perhaps a corollary of Articles 3 and 5 of the Regulations, but whether the Chinese are justified in insisting upon the signature by the Consul concerned of an undertaking to enforce the Regulations upon the lessee might, I think, be disputed.\n\nIn any case, the conclusion of the present matter has been that the land, instead of being granted to a British concern, has passed into the name of the German agents, and I think it is desirable that you should be acquainted with the fact.\n\nIt is evident that if land can only be acquired for commercial purposes at Chinan-fu by foreigners whose Consuls are prepared to give a guarantee that they will obey the Regulations, we must either induce the Chinese to modify the Regulations so as to make them acceptable to us, or accept the Regulations as they stand, or consent to the exclusion of British lot-holders from the place. The result at present seems to create a preference in favour of Germans, or others whose Consular Representatives are able to act in the way the Chinese require.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**WALTER J. CLENNELL**\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Chinan-fu Commercial Settlement Board to Consul Clennell**\n\n4th moon, 9th day (May 20, 1907). \nWE beg to acknowledge the receipt of your two letters, the contents of which have our attention, and we beg to state, with regard to the land upon which Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co. intend to erect a kerosene oil installation outside the Settlement boundaries, that Dr. Merklinghaus, the German Consul, has now informed us by letter that the issue of a deed of lease has been arranged, as, we believe, you are already aware.\n\nWith compliments, &c.\n\n(The card of the Board is inclosed.)\n\n532", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412087, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 587, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n(Translation.)\nSir,\n\nChang Chih-tung to Consul-General Fraser.\nMay 21, 1907.\n\nI HAVE given constant thought to the matter of a railway loan, but cannot see my way to memorialize the Throne. I dare not do so, even if the Board of Posts and Communications were in its favour. I must pray you to send an urgent telegram to the agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Mr. Hillier, to put off his coming for the present; it is very important he should do so. I would also beg you to be good enough to come to my office on the 23rd instant at 10 A.M. to talk the matter over with me. When a scheme has been arrived at I shall then ask Mr. Hillier to come here and discuss details.\n\n(Translation.) (Extract.)\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Card of Viceroy Chang.)\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\nMr. Takahashi to Japanese Minister.\n\nHis Imperial Japanese Minister's Consulate, Hankow, May 19, 1907.\n\nWHEN the conversation turned on the presence of Messrs. Hillier and Bland at Hankow, Mr. Fraser told me that they have received from their London people a telegram that they were informed by Yokohama Specie Bank, through its London agency, that the negotiations with the Viceroy about the loan was broken off. So these gentlemen came down to see the Viceroy, and had an interview with him yesterday. On hearing this, I said that should Yokohama Specie Bank decide to break off the pending negotiations with the Viceroy about the proposed Hupei industrial loan, I thought Mr. Odagiri shall also be informed thereof before the bank gave its London office notice to such effect, and he would have withdrawn his offer to the Viceroy at once. This not being the case, and myself not having received any such informations from Tôkiô, neither myself nor Mr. Odagiri did take any steps of discontinuing the said negotiations. On the contrary, Mr. Odagiri, so far as I know, has been eagerly pursuing the same line as he used to. Now that I hear from you that your bankers have received such informations and started their movements, we have to report the present circumstances to Tokio and Yokohama, and await instructions as well as informations.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\nDear Mr. Chan,\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Mr. Chan,\nHankow, May 24, 1907.\n\nAS regards his Excellency the Viceroy's antimony ore scheme, I am told that there is this practical difficulty, that the ore varies enormously, and unrefined antimony would not be a stable security unless of course the lenders had their own experts at the mines before and during working, which his Excellency would hardly agree to.\n\nMoreover, the antimony market is very uncertain, and Carlowitz and Co., for instance, feed it very cautiously in order to avoid running the price down. I have little doubt they or some one else would gladly contract for his Excellency's ore, and so part of the loan charges might be met. To this, so far as I know, we should have no objection.\n\nThe following works have been executed:\n\n1. Hou Hu embankment\n2. Wuchang to Chingkou embankment\n3. Wuchang Commercial Settlement site\n4. Wuchang, new roads and streets, as per plan and list\n5. Schools, colleges, and other public buildings, as per list\n6. Copper and silver mints\n7. Factories, as per list\n\n| Total expended | Taels |\n| --- | --- |\n| ... | 120,000 |\n\nAgainst this expenditure can be set:\n\n1. Government land inside Hou Hu embankment, ... mou, worth at present ... taels per mou, and sure to rise in value, especially if land be raised; total value estimated ...\n2. Reassessment of such land meanwhile will bring in annually a net revenue of ... taels, which will increase with future assessment\n3. Wuchang Commercial Settlement, including site of railway station, wharves, &c., worth even now ... taels per mou; total ...\nWhen railway is made and Settlement opened, land sales and rents will come to large sums.\n4. Municipal rates in Wuchang, annually ... \n5. Copper and silver mints, annual profits ... years at ...\n6. Cotton factories, let for ... taels a-year\nOther factories ... taels a-year\nIlanyang Ironworks, bound to pay 1 tael per ton of pig iron, at least 400 taels a-day, within a short time, say annually ...\n\nFor developing Wuchang Settlement, reclaiming Hou Hu land, upkeep of embankments, opening of antimony mines at ..., coal mines at ..., iron mines at ..., copper mines at ..., as well as Government enterprises in the province, the Viceroy wants to borrow 1,000,000l. at 5 per cent. for [15] years, during the first [5] years of which interest only shall be paid, the principal to be repaid in [10] equal yearly instalments, and Hupei to have the right on giving [5] months' written notice at any time after the completion of [10] years to pay off all or any part of the principal outstanding.\n\n(The figures within brackets are merely my suggestion.) The loan is sanctioned by Imperial Decree of ... 1907; is guaranteed by the seal of the Shan Hou Chu. Instalments of principal and interest will come from the incomes mentioned above, the sale of mineral ores, and, if necessary, the general provincial revenues, especially earmarked being the special taxes on sugar, tobacco, and samshu, the collection of which in case of default will be supervised by an agent of the lenders; these bring in ... taels per annum.\n\nIn order to secure proper development of mines, upkeep of embankments, and execution of other public works, his Excellency the Viceroy will engage one of the lenders' nationality to supervise under his Excellency each branch of such works, whether mining engineering, civil engineering, or other sorts.\n\nIf you can fill in the blanks in the above satisfactorily I think such a prospectus would go through without trouble. The Hanyang works royalty especially should soon come to a good sum, which it can well afford to pay.\n\nI apologize for giving you so lengthy a document, but you translate better and quicker than I can.\n\nWill you please tell his Excellency the Viceroy that I am instructed to say to the Japanese Consul that the Chinese Government recognizes as binding upon it both his Excellency's despatch to me of the 9th September, 1905, which applies to all Hukuang railways as well as the Hankow-Canton line, and also the earlier unconditional undertaking of the Wai-wu Pu to apply to us in case China's own capital proves insufficient.\n\n[2571 p-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412515, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "272 \n\n2 \n\nThis complete volte-face on the part of the Viceroy closes a phase of the negotiations which has latterly degenerated into something very like comic opera. It has, indeed, been impossible during the past fortnight to keep pace by letter with the almost daily developments which have taken place, and I do not propose to weary you with a recapitulation of their intricate details. All I will now attempt is a review of the later phases assumed by the negotiations, of the causes at work, and of the position in which, in my judgment, the general question of the loan is now left. Copies of telegrams which have passed since the 21st June are here inclosed.\n\nThe interview of the 26th June with the Viceroy's deputies, who had evidently come armed with very precise instructions, convinced me that there were other forces at work besides the legitimate desire of the Viceroy to extract from us favourable terms. It seemed to me just possible that if the Viceroy could be induced to accept the British and Chinese Corporation as the principal party to the Agreement, the objections of the French might be overcome. He could assign no reasons except sentimental ones for not doing so. The Peking Government could have no possible objection to the British and Chinese Corporation, seeing that they concluded an Agreement with them only a few months ago, and it was plain to me that there was something more than flattering preference behind Chang's persistent demand for the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank alone. In my opinion, we have not far to look for the explanation.\n\nOf the forces which are working to shape the future of Hankow and of the Upper Yang-tsze at the present moment, none is more conspicuous or more striking than the growing influence of the Japanese. There are said to be some 5,000 Japanese in or about Wuchang. They are found at Changsha and at Ichang, their flag is to be seen everywhere on the river, and the Viceroy, strongly pro-Japanese in his sympathies, is surrounded by a ring of Japanese advisers, whose influence is perceptible at every turn. Their distinct methods of business and their peculiar way of acquiring information separate them from other foreigners. That they have great ambitions in the Yang-tsze valley, there can be no manner of doubt, and their object seems to be to conquer as much by a process of absorption by numbers as by the ordinary competition of trade. They evidently have reasons for attaching a great deal of importance to obtaining a share in the present railway scheme. They have no money to contribute, but they have labour and they have materials, and it is therefore obviously of the greatest importance to them to arrange, if possible, that the loan with which the railways are to be built should carry with it no vexatious conditions likely to affect them in these fields of industry.\n\nIf this hypothesis is correct—and it is strikingly borne out by what has come under my own observation—it is no longer difficult to account for the Japanese objection to the British and Chinese Corporation, and for their strong preference for the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, which, as a purely financial institution, does not concern itself with the questions of labour and materials.\n\nWith this conviction in my mind, and under the discouraging impression of the interview of the 26th June, at which the deputies practically went back on every clause of the proposed Agreement which made the business possible, I sent you my telegram of the 27th June, and the promptness of your reply showed at least that you had little hesitation in approving the action proposed.\n\nMy own opinion was equally clear, but I was in a somewhat different position. I felt, when it came to the point, that I had to consider not only the interests of the bank, but those of the British Government, which, in this respect, had practically been committed to my charge, and I had therefore to consider how far I was justified in jeopardizing, without the gravest reasons, the British preference which our Government had been at so much pains to obtain.\n\nOn the 29th June, I received a note from the Specie Bank, asking if the Japanese Consul might call and see me. The account of this interview and the subsequent interview and correspondence with Mr. Midzuno, I inclose herewith.\n\nHe evidently came to see me under express instructions, and the correspondence will interest you as disclosing the Japanese point of view on this side.\n\nMr. Midzuno's recollections of what passed at these interviews did not accord at all times with mine, but you will note that, with regard at least to the nominal nature of the participation which the Specie Bank desires to have in the issue of the loan, Mr. Midzuno and I are agreed. The request to appear in the prospectus merely as an agent to receive applications for bonds appears harmless enough, however unaccountable its motive, and perhaps you can see your way to conceding them this much.\n\nOn the 30th June, I received a note from Fraser, who was away at Kuling, which confirmed my opinion as to the necessity for prudence in taking the step proposed in \nmy telegram to you of the 27th June, and I accordingly left for Kuling that night in order to confer with him.\n\nOn my return to Hankow on the 3rd July, I found that Cordes had called to see me. He told Taylor that he had been staying at the Viceroy's yamên since the 28th ultimo, arranging the Tien-tsin-Chinkiang Final Agreement. The Viceroy had mentioned my negotiations, and Cordes had made him an offer; he did not tell Taylor what the offer was. As he, Cordes, was leaving on the previous day, the Viceroy told him he had just received a telegram from the Wai-wu Pu instructing him not to proceed with his negotiations with me.\n\nI reported this to the Consulate, who wired it to the Legation, and Sir J. Jordan at once asked for an interview with the Wai-wu Pu. The Board, I understand, informed Sir John that they had heard of the negotiations going on in Hankow, and had wired to Chang Chih-Tung to ask him what it was all about, but they could get no reply out of him. They raised no objection to the French, nor, in principle, to Chang's borrowing; they only wanted him to make a clean breast of it and let them know what his requirements were and what he was doing. They did not confirm the statement that they had wired to Chang not to proceed with the negotiations. The German Minister, they said, had called on them on the subject, and, from his attitude, they feared there would be some trouble with him. With regard to the principle of borrowing money for public works and spending it on railways, they were not prepared at the moment to express an opinion; they wanted further information from Chang.\n\nThe result of this interview was telegraphed by Sir John Jordan to Fraser, who had in the meantime returned from Kuling. Fraser telegraphed to Peking for instructions how to act in the event of Chang attempting to break off negotiations over the question of French participation. Your own instructions to myself on this point, I looked upon as covered by your telegram to me of the 4th July.\n\nSir J. Jordan's reply was to the effect that Fraser should, in the event named, warn the Viceroy against the consequences of his unfriendly attitude towards the French, and hold him to his engagement with the British Government.\n\nArmed with these instructions, we prepared ourselves for a somewhat disagreeable interview with Chang on the 7th instant.\n\nThe Viceroy, however, was never more cheerful. He at once launched into an exposition of his views on the new situation which had been created by Sir J. Jordan's interview with the Wai-wu Pu, winding up with the astounding proposition that not only the French, but also the Germans, should be admitted as parties to the Loan Agreement.\n\nMr. Fraser observed that, before committing himself to any opinion on this proposal, it would be necessary for him to ascertain the views of his Government; and, for my own part, I suggested that it appeared a good moment for me to return to Peking and explain his Excellency's views to Sir J. Jordan and the Wai-wu Pu. The Viceroy approved of the last suggestion, and proceeded to furnish me with instructions for my mission. I was, he said, to inform the Wai-wu Pu of the nature and object of the loan, its amount, term, interest, price, and security, but I was not to discuss with them the other conditions of the Agreement, as the Viceroy preferred to retain the settlement of these in his own hands. As the Edict of 1905 prohibiting the borrowing of foreign money for railway construction is still in force, the Viceroy could not call this a railway loan. At the same time, I was to point out that no mortgage of any railway line or other condition derogatory to China's rights is proposed. The Province of Hupei is very hard up, and the experience of the last two years has clearly shown that it is impossible to raise the large sums required for railway construction by means of share capital alone. If, therefore, railways are to be constructed, the funds for their construction must be largely diverted from the provincial revenues, and if from the revenues of one Department, why not from those of the Public Works Department? Again, Tsen Shun-hsuan, Viceroy-designate of Canton, is treating with the Government for permission to borrow on exactly similar lines. Why should he, Chang, not receive at their hands the same consideration as his colleague Tsen? If the objections of the Wai-wu Pu are founded on the fear of offending other nations, I am to suggest that equal participation be given to the Great Powers, England, France, and Germany, although the Viceroy would prefer that the Agreement should be made in the name of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank alone, the provisions for participation being embodied in a final clause, as in the 1905 Loan Agreement. Having arranged these points satisfactorily with the Wai-wu Pu, I am to let him know through Mr. Fraser, and we can then proceed to the discussion of the other terms of the Agreement.\n\n[2636 i-4]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415857, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "12\n\nI request that your Excellency will inform me of your decision before the end of the present month of November.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nA. W. MOORE,\n\nAdmiral and Commander-in-chief, China Station.\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nRegistration of Launches under the British Flag at the British Consulate-General, Canton.\n\nI HAVE ascertained that of recent years the only bona fide case of piracy on a British vessel in the West River district was that of the river steamer “Sainam,” belonging to the West River Steam-ship Company (Amalgamated), which vessel was pirated on the 13th July, 1906 (vide my submission of the 31st July, 1906). The remainder of the outrages reported as piracies have in reality been robberies committed on board small launches flying the British flag and engaged in the passenger traffic in the various waterways around Canton.\n\n2. Under our present Regulations for registration at Canton, it seems inevitable that abuses should exist, and as the matter now stands there can be little doubt but that the use of the flag is abused, and that our claims for redress for piracies on so-called \"British\" launches are thereby weakened.\n\n3. I have been unable to procure copies of \"The Inland Waters Regulations, 1898,\" and the West River Regulations of 1897, or of the correspondence which led up to their institution and the introduction of the present system of registry, but, so far as I can gather, the history is briefly as follows:\n\nAuthority for the registration of launches at the British Consulate-General, Canton, was given by Sir N. O'Conor in 1886. This appears to have been the result of representations made by the Chinese Government to His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, and was intended to provide a means for the identification of British vessels in connection with the exercise of control over the river traffic, and as a means of protecting our launches from interference.\n\n4. Sir Nicholas O'Conor directed the Consul to-\n\n\"Issue to any British owner of a steam-launch upon application a certificate under the seal of the Consulate to the effect that his launch is the property of a British subject.\"\n\nThe fee for this certificate was to be limited to the charge for the Consular stamp.\n\nAuthority for such vessels to fly the British ensign was given by Sir Claude MacDonald in 1898, although it seems that the flag had been actually used before by them.\n\n5. The actual qualifications for British registration at Canton at the present time, I am informed, are-\n\n(a.) The person registering must satisfy the British Consul-General that he is a British subject.\n\n(b.) He must produce proof of ownership.\n\n(c) The vessel must be passed by a surveyor to be appointed by the Consul-General.\n\nN.B. The fees for the above amount to about 10 dollars (or £1.4s.). Condition (c) was recently established, and has had the effect of disqualifying a disreputable class of launch which formerly flew the British flag.\n\n6. An examination of the list of launches registered at His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General, Canton, shows that twenty-two out of a total of forty-six are owned by a Mr. Fisher and the Po On Company, of which he is an agent. He informed me that he is interested in some thirty launches altogether.\n\nMr. Fisher is a half-caste British subject, who has apparently been able to make good his claim of ownership of the various vessels registered in his name, but I have reason to doubt that he is the actual owner. His business appears to be the hiring of launches to such as may require them, irrespective of nationality. He may, as he does, charter them to Chinese traders for long periods, and for so long as the charter lasts he takes no further interest in them, neither knowing on what business they are employed, where they ply, or by whom they are manned. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the majority of the so-called piracies have been committed on vessels registered in his name or that of the Po On Company; there is nothing to prevent these launches being run by a Chinese captain and crew who may be in league with the robbers for the plunder of passengers.\n\n7. To illustrate the conditions under which these passenger launches run, they may well be compared to omnibuses, their routes and principal stopping-places are conspicuously displayed, passengers come on board and take their tickets from a compradore, not only at the regular ports of call, but almost anywhere between ports; and during their run the vessels are stopped frequently to pick up fares, or to put down passengers, who embark or disembark in sampans. No supervision can thus be exercised over the embarkation of passengers who, as has frequently happened, may be robbers themselves with their arms concealed about their persons. The launches are entirely manned by Chinese subjects from the captain down, and there is no check on efficiency or character.\n\n8. There are strong grounds for suspecting that some of the launches registered as British are really Chinese owned.\n\nAll that is required is proof of ownership, and what can be more simple (or more difficult to disprove) if, for a consideration, a British subject accepts temporary ownership, for the purpose of registration, the bill of sale being made out in his name.\n\n9. Although the fact that these robberies are committed at all indicates a state of lawlessness, which it is in the interests of China to put down, yet the question arises as to whether we can conscientiously bring these cases forward as insults to the British flag, and insist that steps should be taken to protect \"British interests.\"\n\n10. That British registration is advantageous to the vessels themselves goes without saying, when it is borne in mind that it affords-\n\n(a.) British protection;\n\n(b.) Considerable reduction in dues levied by local authorities;\n\n(c.) Immunity from interference by Chinese officials, and consequently immunity from \"squeeze\";\n\nbut where the advantages accruing to Great Britain come in it is difficult, for me at any rate, to understand.\n\n11. I have discussed this point with His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, and he admits that the so-called British owner is in many cases merely an agent for Chinese, and that his control over the launches flying the British flag and registered in his name is quite inadequate; in fact, the Consul-General has made efforts (to which I shall refer later) to put the Registration Regulations on a more satisfactory footing. He thinks, however, that it is a matter for serious consideration whether any great curtailment of the use of the British flag might not be a political mistake.\n\n12. From the Consular point of view the advantages claimed are that launches, when not towing, carry passengers about the delta who are engaged in trade, and when towing, are assisting in the movement of merchandise, and that they thus have their part in the general trade of the Canton Delta and the West River, the British share of this trade being very considerable. It is also claimed that, as the repeated robberies which occur bring great injury to trade, that if the foreign flag is instrumental in securing the suppression of the present lawlessness, it will be greatly to the benefit of both foreign and native commerce. In the absence of foreign pressure, the right to exert which is mainly afforded by the use of the flag, serious action by the local authorities is not to be expected; and that, if the British flag is to be withdrawn, launches will be driven to use that of other Powers less particular, less disinterested, and having less power of Consular and judicial control than that possessed by the British Consul-General.\n\nThere is, of course, something in this argument, but it must be admitted that the advantages claimed for British interests are very indirect, and I do not consider that there is sufficient in them to justify us in lending our protection to Chinese subjects who fraudulently register their vessels as British for the sake of the material benefits they thereby receive. It must be borne in mind that the consequence of trying to coerce the Chinese authorities in the interests of such as these might possibly have serious consequences. At the present time the country is awakening. Young China, in the\n\n13\n\n[2818 u-2]\n\nE\n\n20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416233, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "392\n\nj\n\n2\n\nIt would be altogether a mistake to believe that the people of Yunnan are opposed to a British railway from Burmah to this city. There is not the slightest reason to apprehend in this province any such struggle as that which you speak of as provoked in Chekiang. Everything, indeed, points the other way. The handful of pestilent literati here, after two years of agitation, have failed to arouse among the people of Yunnan any sort of enthusiasm for a Chinese railway to Szechuan, still less for one from Tengyuel to Burmah. As I have shown from their own published accounts, scarcely any private individual has been found willing to subscribe. On the contrary, the call to pay some 6 per cent, more for land tax in the form of railway subscription, coming as it does on the top of the suppression of opium, has roused very considerable discontent. I may mention that in this district the Governor-General has, despite the Edict allowing ten years' gradual suppression, and his own Proclamations allowing three years, caused all poppies to be forcibly destroyed. Were the Yunnanese not by nature a peaceable and submissive folk, there would be a strong provincial opposition, not to railway construction by foreigners, but to the proceedings of the present Governor-General and the small reactionary gang of soi-disant Railway Directors.\n\nAs regards our Tengyueh Railway scheme in particular, the Taiping Valley, through which the line would run, is inhabited almost entirely by Shans, while the Chinese traders of Tengyueh town, who constantly visit Bhamo and often Mandalay, would seem to be altogether in favour of its construction. They certainly are not in favour of the Chinese Company, for, as far as I can learn, they have not bought a single share in it.\n\nI have not, however, been advocating at this stage the demand from the Chinese Government of a definite Railway Concession, so much as insistence on their formal recognition of our right to absolutely equal treatment with France in Yünnan. I venture, with the utmost diffidence, to dissent from the view that the enforcement of that right could not now be attained by diplomatic methods. I am convinced that if His Majesty's Government were (let it be said, by communication through the Chinese Minister in London) to firmly insist on such recognition the Chinese Government would certainly yield. Quite apart from the most-favoured-nation clause of the Burmah-China Treaty, and the correspondence of March 1902, the principle that we are entitled to equal treatment with France in Yunnan is so obviously just that China could look in no quarter for support should she deny or oppose it. If, moreover (as I have said in an earlier despatch), the Chinese Government could be led to understand that, the principle once conceded, we should be ready to consider modifications in its practical application, that Government would be still less likely to hold out.\n\nYou do not refer in this despatch to the fact (as reported in my Confidential despatch No. 14 of the 29th November last) that the Throne has instructed Governor-General Hei that it has called for a report from the Cheng-wu Ch'u and the Wai-wu Pu on our claim to construct a railway in Yünnan; nor do you allude to the growing distrust and distaste said to be expressed by the Central Government for so-called “demonstrations in the provinces.” If the former (as I have no doubt) is correct, and the \"popular\" latter story well founded, then it would seem that the Peking Government would not be indisposed to make a compromise with us, preferring to transfer his Excellency Hsi-liang and to snub the literati rather than to run the risk, however remote, of a collision with India.\n\nIn this connection you will have noticed that in the Army Scheme for all China lately presented by the Lu-chün Pu and approved by the Throne it is proposed that within five years the forces in this province (computed in the Memorial to consist of one brigade of drilled infantry and two battalions of artillery) shall be raised to two “chen,” or army divisions. The reason given is that \"Yünnan controls the frontier posts of the south-west, and it is of the utmost importance to collect there a strong military force to co-operate in the scheme of defence.\" If we continue to delay, and do not now firmly require recognition by China of our right to equal treatment with France in Yunnan, then some future Governor-General of his present Excellency's type will, encouraged by what he will believe to be an overwhelming force, commit such actions—as, for example, ostentatious administration west of \"Scott's line\"—as will oblige us at length to maintain our prestige by force of arms.\n\nIn the meantime that prestige is being very seriously affected by the delay of the Indian Government to insist firmly on its right to build the Tengyueh Railway and to extend it, if the Government sees fit, to Tali and Yunnan-fu.\n\nWe have gone just far enough—in our surveys to Tali and our proposals of 1906 for the construction of a railway to Tengyueh—to make our present inaction appear a victory for the impudent \"bluff\" that inserted the words \"and Tengyueh\" in the title of the exclusively Chinese Yunnan-Szechuan Railway Company. We have swallowed this affront, and we are therefore, here in Yunnan, of no account. The result is that this Consulate is no longer consulted, as was the case when Ting Chih-t'ai was contemplating a railway to Szechuan and an international Settlement at Yunnan-fu (see my despatch of the 11th March, 1905), and it is hopeless to expect—for the matter has a commercial side also—that any contracts for the supply of machinery for mints, arsenals, or other public works, or proffers of engagement as instructors or engineers will come our way.\n\nThe \"friendly co-operation of the province,\" of which your despatch speaks, cannot be attained through any efforts on the part of this Consulate as long as the incumbent appears to be left without support from the Indian Government, on whose behalf he has been maintaining, vis-à-vis of the provincial Government, that British railway enterprise in Yunnan is entitled to equal privileges with French. It may be that the Government of India is waiting for the conclusion of the Thibetan Agreement before turning attention to its eastern frontier, but no intimation to that effect has reached me. It is more than two months since I submitted to Simla, by telegram through Maymyo on the 2nd December, the proposals set out in my despatch to you No. 46 of the 18th December. Those proposals, I cannot but believe, are practicable and such as should commend themselves to the Indian Government, yet they have not been even acknowledged, except in so far as the Government of Burmah have informed me of their due transmission.\n\nIf those proposals are favourably received at Simla, and if—for that, I submit, is the key to the problem—His Majesty's Government will formally require from China recognition of our equality with France in Yunnan, then I do not think that the prospect of overtaking our rivals need be regarded as remote. We should, once we began, work faster, and with less friction; and I am confident that our light electric railway would reach Yunnan-fu in ample time to take a full share in what is the real object of the French line, the traffic and trade of Szechuan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\nP.S., February 8.—It is reported here among the Chinese that the French Government has agreed to sell the railway for 25 million taels (say, 85 million francs). This is less than the amount already spent on earthworks, tunnelling, and masonry. My colleague of France, whom I questioned yesterday on the subject, replies that it appears to him altogether unlikely, but that in any case he knows absolutely nothing about the matter.\n\nW. H. W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "2\n\nI learnt yesterday from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire that their trade-mark is registered in Japan No. 25803 of the 29th April, 1906.\n\nThe trade-mark is also registered in Shanghae.\n\n127\n\n3\n\nI am now informed by telegraph from our Consulate-General at Mukden that it has requested of the Vice-Consulate at Tiehling, which is a branch office of the former, to inquire into the matter, and that it will not fail to take whatever steps it can for stopping the infringement when the fact is established.\n\nIt is hoped that a satisfactory settlement may thus be brought about, and I shall know when I further hear from Mukden.\n\nYours sincerely, (Signed) M. ABÉ.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT WILLIS.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire to Acting Consul-General Willis.\n\nNewchwang, May 13, 1908. WE beg to bring to your notice the following instance of the infringement of the trade-mark and general imitation of the packing of our Taikoo Sugar Refining Company's sugars, detected by our Mr. Alway whilst at Tiehling on the 2nd instant.\n\nIt was reported to Mr. Alway that a Japanese firm, known as the \"Pi Tien Yang Hong,\" located under the wall just outside the West Gate at Tiehling, had sold fifty bags of refined white sugar apparently bearing our regular marks, and declared by them to be our \"B\" grade, or \"Wu Wan Ti,\" as it is known to the Chinese, and which they said they had purchased from us in Hong Kong.\n\nOn inquiring into the matter, Mr. Alway found that this sugar was packed in bags weighing 120 catties gross, 112 catties net, Tiehling scale, whereas our sugars are never packed by us in any other form than bags of about 148 catties gross, 140 catties net, Tiehling scale. At the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Hong Kong, all bags are packed with 136 Hong Kong catties net weight of sugar.\n\nMr. Alway saw a bag of this sugar on sale in a Chinese retail shop, which only weighed 115 catties gross, and the marking was clearly an imitation of our marks, and had evidently been executed by hand with a Chinese brush; besides which, the quality of the contents was far inferior to that of our \"B\" grade, which it purported to be. We have secured a bag of this sugar direct from the Pi Tien Yang Hong, together with a receipted bill from them in Japanese character stating the sugar to be ours, and both the bag and the receipt are now in our possession in our Newchwang office.\n\nWe inclose a small sketch of our trade-mark, grade letter, and pack number, which are stencilled on each bag, in case you should require them. The grade letter and numbers, of course, vary, but the same trade-mark appears on all bags.\n\nWe shall be very much obliged if you will take whatever steps you think most advisable to protect us from further injury to our business by the infringement of our marks by this or any other Japanese concern.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Per pro Butterfield and Swire),\n\n(Signed) W. F. HARLEY,\n\nGeneral Agents, Taikoo Sugar Refining Company.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Abé to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nDear Sir John,\n\nJune 1, 1908.\n\nI HAVE received your note of the 25th ultimo forwarding copies of a despatch and its inclosures, which your Acting Consul-General at Mukden sent you in regard to a case stated to be an infringement by a Japanese firm at Tiehling of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's, Hong Kong, sugar trade-mark, registered in Japan.\n\nYou desire to know if I can adopt in this case such procedure as was taken in similar cases in Corea where, according to what Mr. Kato is stated to have told Mr. Willis, Japanese officials effected satisfactory settlement without recourse to the law courts.\n\nI am not aware what sort of steps they have taken on those occasions, but in view of the Japanese Consular jurisdiction not covering such cases, I suppose that the procedure adopted in Corea was not of legal character but simply what may be called a moral pressure.\n\nIn the present case, too, I think it only to be in my power to instruct the Vice-Consul at Tiehling to investigate the matter, and take the best possible steps with a view to stopping the infringement if he should find the British firm's complaint well-founded.\n\n17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government. 454\n\nTRADE IN CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[26320]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[July 29,]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 296.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 29.)\n\nPeking, July 6, 1908. WITH reference to my despatch No. 274 of the 22nd ultimo, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a further despatch, with inclosures, from His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, respecting the alleged infringement by a Japanese firm at Tiehling of a trade-mark belonging to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.\n\nIt would seem to be established that the bags bearing this mark originally contained the genuine article, and that the substitution of a sugar of inferior quality was made by the Japanese firm at Tiehling, and not by the Yu Asa Shokai at Dairen. There has, therefore, technically been no infringement of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's trade-mark, but merely a fraudulent use of their bags by the firm who received them. Whether the Japanese Criminal Code provides for the repression of such an offence appears, in the present instance, to be a question of academic interest, in view of the fact that the offending firm is no longer in existence at Tiehling. The Japanese authorities have, I submit, done all that was possible to assist Mr. Willis, and the case would seem to have been satisfactorily elucidated.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 49.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, June 24, 1908. WITH reference to my despatches No. 44 of the 19th May and No. 48 of the 10th instant, I have the honour to inclose copy of a further letter I have received from Mr. Yoshida, the Elève-Consul in charge of the Japanese Consulate General.\n\nFrom this letter it seems clear that the 115 bags of sugar, sold by the Yu Asa Shokai to the Pi Tien firm of Tiehling, contained originally bona fide British sugar, and that, later on, inferior sugar was substituted at Tiehling by the Pi Tien firm.\n\nA letter of Messrs. Butterfield to me, dated the 22nd instant, confirms this information, and it seems probable that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire were mistaken in alleging, as they did in their letter of the 13th May, that their marks had been imitated.\n\nI have informed Messrs. Butterfield and Swire that, in my opinion, the Japanese Consular officials have done all in their power, under present conditions and pending the conclusion of a Trade-mark Convention between the British and Japanese Governments, to assist us in inquiring into the facts of this case. Further, even if a prosecution for fraud lay against the Pi Tien firm under the Japanese Criminal Code, which is very doubtful, it would seem useless for them to undertake such prosecution at the present time, as the culprit firm has disappeared from Tiehling.\n\nI inclose copy of a letter I have addressed to Mr. Yoshida.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT WILLIS.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Yoshida to Acting Consul-General Willis,\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nConsulate-General of Japan, Mukden,\n\nJune 19, 1908.\n\nIN reference to my communication dated the 5th instant regarding the fraudulent imitation of trade-marks by a Japanese firm in Tiehling, I have the honour to inform...\n\n[1844 -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.: 455\n\nyou that I have received a report from our authorities at Tairen, in which they ascertained that Yu Asa Shokai, of Tairen, sold 115 bags of the bona fide British sugar to Pi Tien Yang-hong, and that the Hong Kong sugar imported to Japan is, contrary to the argument of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, mostly of 100 kin or 120 catties, instead of 148 catties. I am further reported from the same authorities that Yu Asa Shokai, being a respectable firm in Japan, have been entered in a close business transaction for many years with Messrs. Holme, Ringer, and Co., agents of the Hong Kong Sugar Refinery at Shimonoseki.\n\nUnder the circumstances, I came to the conclusion that the fraudulent imitation of trade-mark would have been done by Pi Tien Yang-hong at Tiehling, and not by Yu Asa Shokai at Tairen.\n\nHoping that you will consider the measures taken in regard to this matter satisfactory, I have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nS. YOSHIDA, Elève-Consul-in-charge,\n\nHis Japanese Majesty's Consulate-General,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Mr. Yoshida.\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nMukden, June 24, 1908. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches of the 5th and 19th instant with reference to the complaint of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire of the fraudulent imitation of their trade-marks at Tiehling.\n\nI am quite satisfied that the bags sold by the Yu Asa Shokai to the Pi Tien firm contained originally bona fide British sugar, and that any fraud must have been committed at Tiehling by the Pi Tien firm. As I understand that this firm has now been declared bankrupt and has disappeared, it is clear that no further steps can be taken in the case.\n\nI would take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to you for the valuable assistance you have given us in inquiring into the true facts of this case, more especially as I quite realize the difficulties of your position, pending the conclusion of a Trade-mark Convention between our respective Governments for the mutual protection of trade-marks in China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT WILLIS.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[27994]\n\n(No. 335.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 12.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received August 12.)\n\nPeking, July 21, 1908. WITH reference to my despatch No. 211 of the 12th May regarding the question of li-kin in the Treaty ports, I have the honour to inclose a copy of the joint note of the Netherland and American Ministers and myself, writing on behalf of the Diplomatic Body, which was addressed to Prince Ching on the 8th instant.\n\nIn this communication we have pointed out that the effect of the Chinese Government's contention is to transform the 5 per cent. ad valorem basis of the tariff into one of 7 per cent., and we have urged that, as this question has caused years of friction with the Treaty Powers, the Chinese Government should devise means of taxation less irksome to trade and in conformity with the Treaties.\n\nWe have also maintained that, no matter how a place has been open to foreign trade, uniformity of practice must be observed.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nJoint Note to Prince Ching.\n\nJuly 8, 1908. THE Undersigned, having been authorized by the Diplomatic Body to discuss and settle with your Highness the question concerning the levy of li-kin within Treaty port limits, have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness' note of the 10th April last, which has been carefully considered by them.\n\nIn this note your Highness observes that the limits of Treaty ports in distinction to the interior have never been defined by Treaty, and that the Chinese Government have never accepted the definition formulated by the foreign Representatives. Your Highness contends, therefore, that li-kin is leviable on all foreign imports unless they have paid transit dues, and similarly on all native produce for export unless it is covered by a transit pass.\n\nAccording to this contention China would be entitled to collect transit dues on all merchandise. But the Treaty stipulates clearly that the payment of transit dues is only leviable, in the case of imports, on notice being given at the port of entry from which such imports are to be forwarded inland, of the nature and quality of the goods, the ship from which they have been landed, and the place inland to which they are bound; and in the case of exports, on produce purchased in the interior, which has to be inspected at the first barrier it passes on its way to the port of shipment, and on arriving at the barrier nearest the port notice must be given to the Customs, and the goods are passed on payment of the transit dues.\n\nSuch is the procedure laid down in Rule 7 appended to the British Treaty of Tien-tsin;\n\nthe essential points being, in the case of imports that they are to be conveyed away from the Treaty port into the interior, and in the case of exports that they are purchased in the interior for conveyance to a Treaty port.\n\nFrom this it is abundantly clear that foreign imports, in respect to which no notice has yet been given to the Customs that they are to be forwarded inland, are exempt from transit dues while remaining in the Treaty port; and that exports, not purchased in the interior but in the Treaty port itself, are similarly exempt from transit dues.\n\nIt then becomes a question, as indicated in your Highness' note, where the Treaty port ends and where the interior begins. Your Highness states that no definition of limits has ever been made to which both China and the Treaty Powers have agreed. In the absence, therefore, of an explicit definition acceptable to both sides, the intention of the Treaties must be examined, and it will doubtless be conceded that\n\n[1904 m-2\n\n-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417187, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 513, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "arrangement of the kind suggested, that the point is scarce worth serious consideration,\n\nCharacter of the Country.\n\nThe leased territory, as seen from the windows of the train, is apparently by far the most barren part of Manchuria. The soil is poor and stony, the country hilly and bare of trees, the hillsides seamed with deep gullies, where the torrential rains of summer have for centuries eaten deep into the crumbling soil. It is an altogether barren and desolate land, in which the only profitable crop is \"kaoliang\" (sorghum millet). With afforestation, to which the Japanese are paying close attention, all this might perhaps be changed, but years must first elapse, and, in any case, it is very doubtful if the ultimate reward would be worth the antecedent toil.\n\nNear Liaoyang an improvement is noticeable. Gaunt hills still rise at intervals, but broad plains intervene, and the soil becomes less stony and darker in colour. The chief crop is still \"kaoliang,\" though bean-fields increase in number. From Liaoyang northwards the soil improves, till in the neighbourhood of Tiehling it becomes the rich loam of the wheat-belt. Ranges of hills are seen at various points, but as a rule the country is rolling, reminding one somewhat of an English landscape, save that the horizon is very much broader.\n\nOf its immense fertility and, under improved methods of agriculture, vast productiveness there can be no doubt.\n\nRailway Settlements.\n\nA Table is annexed to this Report giving details of the land actually known to be in the possession of the Railway at the various points along the line and a gross total of the area the ownership of which is admittedly doubtful. But definite information of the locality of the latter areas or of the circumstances rendering their ownership uncertain are not to be obtained either at Dairen or up-country. Not only was I refused permission at the head offices of the Railway Company to inspect the original Russian maps, which would have enabled me to form some idea of the topographical relation of the various railway Settlements to the Chinese towns near them, but the names also of localities in which questions of ownership awaited decision were denied me. It was with considerable difficulty that I succeeded in obtaining even the general list just mentioned. Under the circumstances, I fear I can add but little to the information already at the disposition of His Majesty's Government.\n\nAt Liaoyang, where about 1,517 acres have already been definitely settled as railway property, I was told by the Japanese Vice-Consul that the determination of ownership was proving a very difficult matter. Original site marked out by the Chinese Eastern Railway Company for its own use, It appears that, in addition to the the Russian military authorities on three subsequent occasions purchased through the local Chinese officials further lots of ground, their intention being, so my informant asserted, to make this place a large military centre. Now the original Chinese owners are coming forward to claim the ground thus acquired, contending, apparently in many cases justly, that the land had never been paid for. The money that had passed between the Russians and the local officials had remained in the pockets of the latter. It seems to me that in any case it is distinctly doubtful if sites thus acquired for military purposes can be justly held to be part of the railway property.\n\nThe Settlement (railway) at Liaoyang lies between the line and the walls of the Chinese city, coming indeed close up to the gates of the latter, and it is, as far as I could ascertain, rectangular in shape. At Mukden conditions are similar. There are the same disputes about ownership, and here again the best land, namely, that adjacent to the station, is all railway property. The area of the Settlement (1,629 acres as at present determined) is in itself sufficient to show that the approaches to the line are virtually entirely in the hands of the Japanese, and that in self-defence merchants will eventually be obliged to reside inside what will presently be the Japanese town of Mukden.\n\nMr. Willis, the Acting Consul-General at Mukden, who is in close touch with the Chinese authorities, is of opinion that the Japanese have not been entirely just in their methods of acquiring land at that place, but he has hitherto experienced difficulty in obtaining satisfactory evidence in support of his contention. However, that he hopes to obtain from the Chinese officials one of the original Russian maps defining clearly the area which the Chinese Eastern Railway claimed as its own. If he succeeds, some light may then be thrown on the character of the Japanese claims.\n\nAt Tiehling, I was informed by the Japanese Consul that there were no outstanding questions of ownership; but the truth of this assertion was absolutely denied at the head office of the Railway, when I made inquiries on the subject on my return to Dairen. On the contrary, I gathered that the Tiehling Settlement question was a somewhat vexatious one. In excuse for this apparent \"terminological inexactitude\" on the part of the Consul, it may fairly be urged that, as he entered on his duties only a few days before my arrival, he could scarcely be expected to be au fait with the work of his office.\n\nAt this place again, the railway Settlement, rectangular in shape, lies between the station and the town, a super-excellent strategical position commercially. From the top left-hand corner of the rectangle a long narrow strip of land, also included in the Settlement, stretches some two miles or more to the landing-place of Bahoko on the Liao River. This is the spot at which junks ship their cargoes of bean and bean-cake for Newchwang.\n\nThe Changchun Settlement calls for no particular comment. Irregular in shape and lying like the other Settlements between the railway and the town, it is made up of land purchased from the Chinese with the money paid by the Russians as compensation for the renunciation by the Japanese of that half of Kwanchengtzu Station to which they are entitled. So far the Japanese at Changchun have evinced no desire to avail themselves of the superior position of the Settlement site, though their houses cluster just outside its borders. The explanation given me was that inside the Settlement there are taxes and other disagreeable things, outside none.\n\nThe original plans of all the sites acquired by the Chinese Eastern Railway were recently handed over to the South Manchuria Railway Company, and they are, I understand, so well drawn up that the task of determining the rightful ownership in disputed cases promises to be a fairly easy one. Major Sato, my informant, asserted that there was not much difference in the area of the land claimed by the Russian Company, and that claimed by its Japanese successor. In his opinion, there was little question that most of the sites now the subject of contention had been undoubtedly purchased, but at so ridiculously low a figure that the only assumption possible was that the rightful owners had not been compensated, the proceeds of sales having in all probability found their way into the pockets of the Chinese officials.\n\nLocal Settlements.--Railway Administration in.\n\nBoth from His Majesty's Consulate-General at Mukden, and from this Vice-Consulate, translations have been sent to Tokio and Peking of the Regulations issued for the control of residents within the railway Settlements and of those defining the relationship of the Japanese Consuls in Manchuria with the Kwantung Governor-General. The pretensions of the South Manchuria Railway Company, similar virtually to those advanced by the Chinese Eastern Railway at Kharbin, are therefore familiar to His Majesty's Government. The latter has also defined its attitude in the case of Kharbin, so that it is unnecessary for me to refer further to the subject or to recapitulate the arguments put forward by the United States' Consul at the town just mentioned in defence of his action. I should like, however, to say that I am driven by the general impression left on my mind as the result of personal observation to concur in the opinion expressed by Mr. Willis in the last paragraph of his despatch No. 14 of the 17th February of this year. The general question of the railway pretensions is of course one which to us is for the time being of academic interest only, but it may in the near future become of considerable practical moment.\n\nI am of opinion that if a necessity exists to dispute the claims of the Chinese Eastern Railway, much greater is that necessity in the case of those of the South Manchuria Railway Company. Dismissing from consideration abstract questions of extra-territoriality, the interpretation of clauses of railway Agreements, China's sovereign rights, &c., which have already received the attention of His Majesty's Government, there exist in my opinion in connection with the South Manchuria Railway Company certain grave practical inconveniences which appear to me to be at present absent from the Kharbin question. The Japanese line is not merely a political machine like the Russian; it is in addition of sheer necessity revenue-seeking. We cannot therefore expect for our nationals that modification in\n\nPage 5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417325, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "35\n\n2\n\nChina with the greater part of his staff, the remainder of whom follow him there this week. The Colony will therefore probably be governed from Saigon until some time after the arrival of M. Klobukowski there at the beginning of October.\n\nAt a farewell dinner given by the Résident Supérieur of Tonquin to M. Bonhoure, the latter's \"Chef du Cabinet,\" M. Pasquier, spoke to me on the subject of the Burmese refugee Prince, the Mingoon Min, who has been living for years at Saigon on a pension paid him by the French Government. It appears that the Mingoon Min is now desirous of making his submission to the Government of India, and of receiving an annual allowance in return therefor. His son recently paid a visit to Paris, and, I am informed by M. Pasquier, steps were then taken to ascertain the views of the British Government on the proposal. The latter preferring that the matter should be dealt with directly by the Government of India, the French Colonial Office instructed Indo-China to lay the request before the Indian Government through the Consul-General at Calcutta. M. Pasquier said that it would be more convenient to arrange the matter through me, as I would easily be able, should the Government of India so desire, to see the Mingoon personally at Saigon. At M. Pasquier's desire M. de la Brosse, the \"Chef du Bureau Politique,\" has several times since spoken to me of the question in an informal and unofficial manner.\n\nIt appears that the Mingoon Min states that he is old and wishes to be at peace with every one, and would like therefore to make his submission to the Government of India. But as he has lived a long time at Saigon and is accustomed to the place, he would ask that he might be allowed to remain there. He would be quite willing, should it be so desired, to pay an annual visit to Calcutta or any other place that might be appointed, and there pay formal homage. In return for this he would hope that the Indian Government would pay him an annual allowance, and M. de la Brosse thought that the amount which he was expecting was 50,000 fr. (£2,000). At present I understand that he receives 25,000 fr. per annum from the French Government; and I gathered from M. de la Brosse's conversation that, should the Government of India grant this request, the French Government would discontinue their subsidy. In fact, the hope of being able to do so is probably the chief reason they have been interesting themselves in the matter.\n\nI told MM. Pasquier and de la Brosse that I had no idea what the views of the Government of India on the matter were, but that if it were the wish of the Governor-General I would of course transmit to India the Mingoon Prince's representations. M. de la Brosse is leaving this week for Saigon, and he will there ascertain the exact nature of the Mingoon Min's proposals and will forward them to me in order that I may lay them before the Indian Government. I suggested to him that it might be convenient to instruct the Mingoon Prince's son to come to Hanoi and see me on the subject. I also said that I imagined it would be useless for the Mingoon to expect very much from the Government of India, as he had delayed making his submission until a time when it was of comparatively small importance.\n\nThe son referred to was, I believe, born in Pondicherry. He is not, however, recognized as a French subject, being classed here as \"Asiatique étranger,\" that is to say, on the same footing as natives of British India, Chinese, &c. He applied some time ago to be naturalized as a French citizen, but was refused. He is said to be intelligent and to speak French well. The Mingoon himself does not speak French.\n\nThe Mingoon is, of course, of no use now to the Indo-Chinese Government. Apart from the fact that the relations at present existing between Great Britain and France have deprived of all interest the ideas, which at one time were undoubtedly held by certain local politicians, of his power to raise the Shan States and Burmah against us, the acquisition by France of the former Siamese Province of Battambong, including the Pailin gem mines, has taken from him most of what remained of his utility. As long as those mines (the population of which mainly consists of British, Shans, and Burmese) belonged to Siam they were constantly visited by emissaries from the Mingoon at Saigon, who kept the people more or less in a state of unrest. During my visits there, in the days before the entente cordiale and the improved relations between France and Siam, I came to the conclusion that nearly all the miners were or had been more or less under the influence of the Mingoon or his representatives, and the latter were constantly spreading rumours of what the Burmese Prince was about to do with the help of the French. Now that the Pailin mines are in French territory, I have no doubt that the Mingoon Min has received instructions that he must leave the miners alone.\n\n3\n\nAs soon as I receive any proposals of the Mingoon Min from Saigon, I shall forward them to the Government of India.\n\nI am forwarding copies of this despatch (as of all political despatches) to his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong and to His Majesty's Minister at Peking. I am also forwarding a copy to the Legation at Bangkok and extracts of those parts which may be of interest to them to the Government of India and to the Consulate-General at Yünnan-fu respectively.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nT. F. CARLISLE.\n\n1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "TIPO \n\n8031 \n\nDWINGS \n\n...ORI,NJA 1sdoƒ50 \n\nEl soul to PTS.ol dotaqaeb Tov to JqisɔeT NỮ \n\nLOJA SN TO пojjaxime ent not Iseogong B rib1997 \n\n-19voð end to astvinpas ebam I 300жgnoн sen astez¶ to \n\nahi bas \n\n1stdo-mi-Tebɣsimo) Isvæи et зnoxanoн to tom \n\nwotawa bas пotme) te zevijstneasïqefi tsivanoƆ a'y‡aste \n\na seolons of Tuonod sad ever I doidw to dotsgash ent mi \n\nto Joetdua erit no noijanriotmi dowa nnitasuper,YQ09 \n\n.alesɗo of elde ed tag im vert as Inalai sifT \n\nViger mi em berfeirut ncgnoн to Torrevod siff \n\nOF VING DIES Our to Notaqeeb Jerosa aid to vɖoo s njiw \n\nfood aasi drob aad vqoɔ a dotriw to,95110 Teimolo ent \n\nwoy of batsoinummoj \n\nJANG DAJAta notdmal d‡rowbeH Tie LeximbÀ 90IV \n\nconta dostdue aid no abroJet aid mi betseqçe grintom \n\nfqerasiet aasieniw 6 &A .SOBI to eonebnoqasTTOO SAJ \n\nTotoxero of eldsvlev ed blow balai ant noitaja \n\n-noo ton asw ji tud ‚anconqyt saillergia to saoqing sdf \n\nbotsbia \n\n.1si nebi \n\n(Tor \n\n430 \n\nconsidered of any practical value in the event of war.\n\nThe reply of His Majesty's Acting Consul General at \n\nCanton, of which I have the honour to enclose a copy, \n\naffords a complete answer to the question whether the \n\nisland is claimed by China. In reply to a private let-\n\nter addressed by Mr. Fox to the Viceroy's Secretary, the \n\nlatter answered semi-officially that \"there is no doubt \n\nas to its status as a Chinese island\". \n\nMr. Fox also has drawn attention to correspondence \n\nwhich passed between the Consulate and the Viceroy as \n\nfar back as 1869, when the Chinese authorities were \n\nasked by us to take steps to prevent the pillage of \n\nwrecks on the island; the request being based on \n\nArticle 20 of the Treaty of Tientsin, thereby virtually \n\nrecognising the shoal as a Chinese possession. In his \n\nreply to this request, the Viceroy of Canton went so \n\nfar as to specify the authority on the mainland under \n\nwhose jurisdiction the island lay. \n\nrespondence are enclosed herewith.\n\nCopies of this cor-\n\nThere can be no doubt therefore that China would \n\nhave ample grounds for claiming the shoal if she desired \n\nto do so. \n\n4.4, JINE,VSIÐ DIBHD: \n\n.08 \n\nI have &c., \n\n(Signed) \n\nJ. N. Jordan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417800, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "My dear Sir John Jordan,\n\nH. B. M. Consulate-General,\n\nHANKOW,\n\nOctober 12th, 1908,\n\nReceived December 12, 1909.\n\nI am sorry that only now have I found time to write with reference to my telegram No. 23 of yesterday.\n\nLiang Tun-Yen, with whom I was very intimate when he was Chang Chih-Tung's private Secretary in 1900-1903, called on Saturday afternoon, (10th), and told me Chang had consulted him about his railway schemes, showing him also the telegrams that passed between us last week. Liang pressed on His Excellency the necessity of concentrating effort on completing the Hankow-Canton line, a main trunk, whereas the line to Ichang was only subsidiary; but Chang would not listen, persisting that steamer competition would prevent the Wu-Yo line from paying. This view, Liang agreed with me, was absurd, though of course the sooner there's through traffic to Changsha the better.\n\nChang would not either listen to Liang's recommendation of Moore, whom he stigmatised as a waterworks expert. His objection,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418842, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "# The facts are simple:\n\n14\n\nWhen the letter of 30th January was written, the only information which had been given by Mok Kun was as to Leung Lai Sang: and Mr. Schluter adds that Mok Kun at that date can only have mentioned Leung Lai Sang, because if there had been more than one owner mentioned by Mok Kun it should have been put in the letter. And the defendants had no other source of information than Mok Kun. Also, when the business first began Mok Kun was consulted as to the standing of the Cheong Loong, and it is clear that he did not at that time mention the names of the Cantonese people as being partners.\n\nBy the 13th February the amount of information had not increased, for Canton is still requesting Hongkong to let them know if Leung Lai Sang is really a partner in the sugar shop, as an indispensable piece of information preparatory to seizing his silk store: the answer to this, on the 15th February, being that Mok Kun had no written proof that Leung Lai Sang was a partner: but private enquiries at the Consulate are suggested as to whether it would not be possible to have Leung Lai Sang arrested if he would not settle the matter amicably. \"It is really a pity,\" the letter of this date concludes, \"that we cannot give you any further information, but we hope to be able to do so to-morrow.\"\n\nOn the 14th February Mok Kun is trying to get written proof by writing to Leung Lai Sang in the hopes of getting a reply. Yet it is to be noted that the letter (Exhibit 2) was then in Mok Kun's hands, and he had, as he says, already obtained $5,000 security from Leung Lai Sang.\n\nOn 15th February, what I can only call a truly marvellous reply, came from Canton to Hongkong. The Consulate is closed, but \"he got privately the advice to write to the Consulate and request the same to arrest Leung Lai Sang as he is a partner of the Cheong Loong shop and therefore owes us money. Should he really not be a partner this would have to be enquired into.\" It is to be noted in their favour that the Canton branch do not propose to act on this advice: but add the sage counsel that it will be no use simply to presume that the man is a partner. There is at this point a hiatus in the copies of correspondence produced.\n\nA draft letter was sent from Canton to Hongkong for approval before sending it to the Consul, the enclosure was not produced, but except for certain variations in the figures I must assume that it was in fact the letter of the 21st February to the German Consul written by the Canton branch giving the names of the 3 men as partners: the statement is given on information from Hongkong, so that the branch here must have had information about the 18th, which they had not got on 15th. I look in vain for the explanation. But the state of uncertainty in which Hongkong was throughout is shown by the letter of 19th March, in which the immediate release of the silk store is requested. It contains this passage: \"We shall make further enquiries as to what extent the brother of the proprietor of the sugar shop has an interest in it: and then (on 19th March) reasons are given which are said to justify the assumption of a partnership as against him.\" There is a great deal of confusion about this; who the brother is I am not quite clear: it is possible that it is Leung Lai Nam. But the letter by itself seems to me to demonstrate as clearly as possible the absence of reasonable and probable cause for the action taken on 21st February. In this connexion I must also refer to the very definite statement made by Mr. Schluter at the end of his cross-examination after a reference to the correspondence, ending 27th March: \"I knew as much as any one in the Hongkong office. I was instructing the Canton office, the compradore had never told me about the 3 men and the two dinner parties. I have no recollection of 3 men having been mentioned by the compradore, he certainly mentioned one: he might have said Cantonese, but I cannot remember.\"\n\nI must note here the extreme unwillingness of the defendants to produce their correspondence, and that the only European witness put by them in the box was Mr. Schluter.\n\n417\n\nPage 420\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "Page 371\n\nJirodao bre A reful to notjaizst\n\n182 30IT\n\nTM 990\n\nwoy Jntedpos odrged en nejjel woy of yiqen aI sattro moït szettel atejues bevieoer 9W .038 9mid omoa JRIJ\n\nInob of aqeje exej od eu gaffes,ajzuq rgieroï ut adnebtusz\n\net 407 Iutinent Leot o .9830 rebum \"nerada\" end is tw\n\nA 101 ooX tsT diibw gatjaitoyen at nedej oved voy aiduonŠ\n\nKíquoris evad oox ist jaid wol .19jjem sids to Juemeljjea\n\neJuqalb end dołdw no unoijtbroo add gniübre vd bemyftico voy bemcob evad yjetoo? yatarevoð 192 eft,ow bolddea ad od st moitnejat wo to baorda caeulo art motak od ytub wo di abпetri emoted one elgoeg oogtet erit date amxed od amoo of\n\nVİTOT TO ut bejoja evod ew amoitibano eriT .niage merit djlw\n\n-¡amolot sa our bonds afqoeg wo of\n\nt\n\naill bus bejusto ed où \"nerated\" eris to ulatqeü ərT „oliduq oft os beomwonas Ieautmatb\n\naevijalor eft of blog ed of 009,8$ to notdeunoquoo A .beasgoch ett to\n\nmid gatteouper Iwanoo darting odd of edit* of costs? erið að eðtrw od moji130 20 yorealy art ovom of to Initter a blod of mid goides Iuano) 9aaugusio¶ blod of yjetoo2 gninievoð 1192 eft, bna saso erft of mid gnidue yor9otV eat anijtjeq bus gnijoem e oj 8Iwanoo energutroq bus daitträ add dita SZUSTIS\n\nbae doittaa erit,settq8q ILA ,setjlrodjus saontro eft bar almamoo susugutro¶ mi je beytra ed flada dodwołałoob odd yd abide .9800 edit to attem ent diiw oлsb10008\n\not\n\n.9880 ǝdj zeera\n\nbraod no soljon e qu juq of \"medada?\" a\\a edT 3103098887 onealdi) Jesnt-III où wenu art gaibhidrol ed taum emce odd ‚eiduoti yne od ozadj bluore bas .ebloeb of aid rot åtedqs art of barister\n\nI'\n\n.S\n\nA\n\nto mottos eft anitusser viuejjld are beorde oaonido eNT\n\n,dodaqeeb Intoflto aid at gabilem at Iwanoo suongutro¶ enÍJ\n\noomaðive evey odw aensenti▼ edt jantage udgredo galet mistres\n\n1078ṛewed suit jantage oals bus Ietud jesi edi je sano eft at\n\nat bebeeoons 181 03 over woy jant wolf .ydefool to bas aldd to Jnomeljjes a 10? oodleTM dttw amieú ert galzuBT18\n\n10JJEM\n\nmatter, we have no doubt you would have no difficulty in doing some thing for us to remove the friction brought about by the Portuguese Consul's offensive despatch, so that we may be enabled to write to our people abroad, in order to placate the anger of the general Chinese community. As the conditions agreed to by both parties will not be given effect to, until the case is retried, we conceive it best not to make them public, as to make a formal announcement\n\nof them, might give rise to unfavourable rumours and arouse\n\nunnecessary agitation.\n\nJ\n\nPostcript\n\nThanking you in anticipation,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nSelf Governing Society of Canton.\n\n23rd day 4th moon,\n\n(10/6/09).\n\nAs it is important that we should take precautions\n\nto guard against any further agitation, we propose that we As we should deal with the matter gradually step by step.\n\nhave now arranged the preliminaries to a final settlement, the next step we propose to take is for our Society to call a meeting, and thereafter write to the Viceroy asking him to make an appointment with the British and Portuguese Consuls to hold a retrial of the case at the latter's Consulate, and decide the case on its own merits. When the judgment is given, we, the Self Governing Society, will publish the Judgment for the information of both Foreigners and Chinese. The matter must be proceeded with gradually by this methodical arrangement as we suggest, otherwise the various\n\ncivic\n\nPage 371\n\n(empty lines at the end)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419535, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "78\n\nde har tak s I be\n\nvd MEZPa produa bun,nobrot\n\nartemio edir mont patob oa rol esn't herbbast va de\n\n@\n\nThe Kreyol nadert beric!! si+ xinesest .ben onoo aleneer a\n\nut of heflostra ara Orw nert Lenthel Islouga bezniomis erari\n\n.dow ela oh ot e alvano øndals betin?”\n\nt\n\nvero ele ise te pid bolteltsa anive!\n\nsrce kt)\n\nt\n\nwe (esitsi¤A) arerupeesq\n\n(@droithanen akıl yerly NoZoob a/2,auplayiq sirt to (acaso\n\nBarthola e od adiro. & ha drengroot avondrufør yter a el do} !wh\n\nnd hot. • Isaegy a atis duo.%?w his task to DIMIN\n\nI .nersth best að nå Proq & JA Tavite no berhamersup\n\na tesuar zort LIEw diterimevon attain back-li agic delið areaqqs\n\nat and w *- *}*70 (÷Ised IsinoI00 vite qd housed flz fasl to TIED\n\n-rittw , qêNË YONNGAns¶ ouech:D s to saso ngr nå èqpoxe,baunat\n\n.brood no noicoequal $110=”\n\ngottosqert Irolhat atlls us mob:45hs MI\n\nWifeRORTS 1 gnetoof ego? Vena sus preSHEEN84 ohialah add. to*\n\nhas solisola tansotees will to notznoʻrleih mu brojnimequra”\n\ntot heulge-b ogriso eit toogant,holtekstine exotod ønsmņ}[\"\n\nsið kot Clan ve ́ ́t seoqug dall's 703)\n\nes net ou og uava bre, (vest whehevoniga tibus,adaet)non\" -öneqant eld) „he:'osy nefnd edt en of enco\" sasut dixiv oc* ake me to exagring with not at osrso \"o net-\" nhattan ata založena beat di dong donā bangbila ene esisitig\" ,anet brend volo ho,anidetoneV”\n\n-18 hrs ounsve-rosas 913 ritty two hete en el notronqark aties onco #feller suf to atomo has enscuplt ert to Isvotq=\" mit to nottnavetq bas enia to palvea els at wely a aktiv\" .ames Bedach baði ný entreetup už nolönereh 'alonkav\" gahvas fet aid coat a vidadong, at unit ber?\n\n*ideomnia of net ason moltonja\" to suterreanoo at behraf regnnaraq Trå .{0}\" te hmong $ ɑstí rodoof godet2 baðkull eile val tuen arınma ta\\bis terngîl azly backens modéos\n\n20attool to cinzeng\n\n.(3)\n\n*(2). If any of the crew are landed (discharged) without the sanction of the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office the Master is liable under Section 16, subsection (12), of Ordinance 26 of 1891 to a fine.\n\n*(3). And the Master prefers these risks to the certainty of detention on the other side\".\n\nAfter receiving this report, on the 8th July, 1902, the Colonial Secretary wrote to Mr. W. A. Rublee, the Consul-General for the United States inviting his attention to an irregularity, which took place in the examination of the crew of the British Ship \"Knight Companion\" in November, 1901, when bound from this port to Manila. It appears that the passengers and crew of the vessel were inspected by the Doctors attached to the United States Consulate, and that one of the crew failing to pass the Medical examination was obliged to leave the ship and was in fact illegally discharged, since his discharge did not take place before the proper officer as required by law. For such action the master of the vessel rendered himself liable to a fine under Section 16, subsection (12) of Ordinance 26 of 1901 and made the seaman he unlawfully discharged also liable to a fine under subsection (11) of the same section. The Colonial Secretary, therefore requested Mr. Rublee to give such instructions as would preclude the commission of such a breach of the law, adding that, if it occurred again, it would be followed by a prosecution of the Master.\n\nMr. Rublee replied on the following day, admitting that one of the members of the crew of the British Steamer \"Knight Companion\" which sailed from Hongkong for Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., on the 14th November, 1901, was rejected by the Doctor of the United States Marine Hospital Service attached to the Consulate. The man had fever and the Doctor advised the Captain not to take him as he would otherwise be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "# \n\n{„Jérome\"-eteisenor \n\nnofor \n\n206 \n\nA7DS KING \n\nNOSNAN \n\nt \n\n„bramant dobben? \"l” 180( \n\noft ro nolzennomzod dæenet two od animated \n\nBrow to torvi (leve vibel? I ༡༩༢༠ \n\nzené do so; og beaɛerque 1 anoluiqo eit ansig of noljetivai \n\n^hael fr bitharaftar domaso I \n\nnafaite at noira000 \n\nb. bekk destila farw sula vidadong bas daernal sta ,^.Iw\" bna \n\nevit-us/one, daag ell \n\norby re \n\nSlidrennen dakakelt no desujolsvah nila ni shaq dzenènong a nelet \n\n600 MAJ 20 1:0 \n\no* *sino ak a of Istonsmit beratura Viststedilen,uolus200 \n\nsonetani I) adları qeur? tisify baoteb to sigloning a nisuutam \n\nsule no noiosziran spesce edargument où adxonte Iutaasocua \"ter \n\nto meas \n\nIdianoqacTri \n\ndbivore,(snid” to anecav baz:Int has teviЯ Jed \n\nto bind flare a to entheid ect da bro eteende eris \n\nsuccessfully maintained for over six months. \n\nTheir position vis à vis the threatened \n\nboycott was, in my opinion, practically unassailable. Denying \n\nfrom the outset their responsibility for the death of this \n\npassenger, a denial supported by the finding of the enquiry held \n\nat the British Consulate and confirmed by the decision of the \n\nChinese Authorities to take no further judicial proceedings \n\nagainst the accused watchman, they yet, to conciliate public \n\nopinion, dismissed the watchman from their service and offered \n\nto pay the deceased's relatives any reasonable sum of money by \n\nway of a compassionate allowance. \n\nLater, by a donation to the Hongkong \n\nUniversity, unparalleled in the annals of foreign commercial \n\nintercourse with China, they made a bold, and I believe, \n\nsuccessful bid for the sympathy of the Cantonese and the \n\npeople of China, and we, on our part, obtained from the Viceroy \n\nof Canton what, I have reason to know, is considered by \n\nChinese and foreign officials in Canton a remarkable proclamation \n\ncompletely exonerating the firm from all responsibility in the \n\n\"Fatshan\" case. \n\naf snowgnoll won't be fuhrer, løt II) selkeTokid quoito, ON \n\nclenkame,(asoil troonoff saerunget evid nå valoligros not 2081 \n\nnovionthe- \n\n,vaso \"natate\" wit må Hol.i wi, a dobusda \n\n-Urtsasoon over Casbakkordua deteist mild to coastaicas eft rid tw \n\nYet, in spite of all this, the local manager \n\nof the firm has agreed to surrender his position, without even \n\ninforming, much less consulting, his own officials, in whose \n\nhands", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421724, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 513, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## 508\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n2\n\nCompany has been placed, even temporarily, in charge of the Russian Consulate-General at Harbin, for this step would make towards the further tendency—upon a theory which seems to us without foundation—to exercise authority under the Railway's Concession.\n\nTurning now to the actual situation at Harbin, which is of such practical importance to Russia and of such great interest, in principle, to the United States, I have the honour to request that the Imperial Russian Government will kindly consider the suggestions made by the United States with a view to the attainment of order through a Municipal Administration based upon the Treaty rights of the foreign Powers. The fullest consideration of the subject impels me to urge that course instead of an undertaking to maintain government based directly or indirectly upon what we conceive to be the unsupported claim of administration under the Concession of the Railway Company.\n\nIn asking the serious consideration of this suggestion, therefore, I would point out also the fact that, inasmuch as the Russian residents are now in great preponderance at Harbin, the creation of a municipality, regularized under the Treaties and of unquestioned jurisdiction, would for the time being differ but little in practical effect from an Administration claiming authority through the railway grant. The arrangement suggested would, however, have the great advantage of being different in principle, in that it would exclude the claim of political rights under the Railway Concession. As your Excellency is aware, the recognition of such rights might have important and far-reaching consequences. Desiring to avoid these, the Government of the United States could not acquiesce in an arrangement whose potentiality might hereafter so seriously affect American citizens.\n\nAt our last interview, when there appeared so immaterial a divergence in our view of the subject, your Excellency was looking forward to full discussion of this matter with the Minister for Foreign Affairs upon your return to St. Petersburgh. This reflection makes me only the more secure in my expectation that your Government will favourably receive a suggestion which is so evidently regardful of the interests of all concerned, and so entirely consistent with the declared policy no less of Russia than of the United States and the other Powers having Treaties with China.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[4902]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n7798\n\nFebruary 4 MAR 09. SECTION N\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received February 6, 1909.)\n\n**(No. 560. Confidential.)**\n\nPeking, December 14, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of two despatches from the Acting British Consul-General at Mukden respecting an Agreement which has been drawn up for the joint working of some coal mines near Mukden by Chinese and Japanese merchants, and which is to come into operation as soon as the approval of the Board of Commerce in Peking is obtained.\n\nAs pointed out by Mr. Willis, the terms of this Agreement are singularly favourable to the Chinese, and it is scarcely conceivable that any firm would have accepted such conditions had they not foreseen some prospect of evading them in practice.\n\nAmongst other things, the Japanese Company binds itself to accept the existing mining Regulations, and any others which may be issued by the Chinese Government, and the whole undertaking is to be carried on in accordance with the mercantile law of China, any breach of which may entail as a penalty the closing of the mines. Chinese mercantile law, so far as it has any existence, rests merely upon custom, and the Japanese probably trust to their position in Manchuria to secure for them an interpretation of the Agreement which will enable the mines to be worked.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n(Signed) ELIHU ROOT.\n\n**(No. 75.)**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n#### Acting Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, November 23, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to the despatch of His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Tairen to Sir Claude MacDonald, No. 66 of the 17th instant, I have the honour to report that, in the course of an interview yesterday with the Commissioner of the Foreign Office, I inquired as to how far an agreement had been reached for the joint working of the Pen-hsi-hu coal mines.\n\nHis reply was to the effect that the matter had been in progress of discussion for some time, but that no definite understanding had as yet been arrived at. He gave me to understand that the Chinese Government were by no means satisfied with the quality of the coal—it is apparently a very hard anthracite—and wished to procure an independent expert opinion. Two American mining experts were, he informed me, expected shortly in Mukden, and an effort was to be made to engage them.\n\nThe Japanese have during the past year been engaged in developing this Pen-hsi-hu mine. There are, I have been informed, several hundreds of resident Japanese, and machinery of considerable value has been recently erected. Mr. Tao, however, expressed himself as being ignorant of the fact that the mines were being worked at present, and said that he thought no permanent machinery had yet been bought, and that the Japanese were prospecting only.\n\nPen-hsi-hu is on the Antung-Mukden Railway, distant about four hours from Mukden.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT WILLIS.\n\n[2155 ƒ-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Jurisdiction in British and German Concessions in China\n\nIt has been suggested that a British or German subject holding a lease on the other Power's Concession should be required to enter into an undertaking that they held the lease subject to the condition that all questions in regard thereto should be determined according to the law of the Power holding the Concession. This would be of advantage to British subjects as settling the law and might meet the German difficulty in regard to registration and priority of mortgages. To take a concrete example, suppose that a British mortgagee had advanced money to a German mortgagor on the security of a Canton British Concession lot registered at the British Consulate in the name of the German subject. The mortgage had been registered at the British Consulate in accordance with `section 2` of the Shameen Land Regulations, 1908 (`King's Regulations No. 2 of 1908`), and `Article 129-133` of the `Order in Council 1904`. If the German became bankrupt, the estate would be administered under the jurisdiction of the German Court at Canton, which would give the British mortgagee their rights according to English law in respect of their registered mortgage. If the British mortgagee thought they were not getting their rights, they might apply to the British Court for an injunction restraining the Registrar from transferring the lot until the matter had been duly determined. This case, put vice versa in regard to a British subject holding a lot on the German Concession at Hankow, would seem to give all the certainty to the law of mortgages the Germans can require.\n\nThe alternative would be that the Court of the Power holding the Concession should be the `forum rei sitae` with sole jurisdiction to decide all questions in regard to concession lots. This looks neater on paper, but I am not prepared to say off-hand that it would work well in practice. An obvious objection is that the Court would have no power to act in personam against a foreigner, e.g., in giving possession or the enjoyment of an easement. It would necessitate an amendment of `Article 5` of the `Order in Council 1904`, and perhaps to cover all the ground, an agreement among the Treaty Powers holding concessions.\n\n### Jurisdiction over Foreigners to Enforce Municipal Regulations\n\nThere seem to be grave objections to the German proposals under this head. China has given up her territorial jurisdiction over British subjects to Great Britain. Has Great Britain, therefore, the right to transfer any part of this jurisdiction to Germany? Again, the King in Council can, in virtue of the `Foreign Jurisdiction Act`, bind British subjects in China by legislation, and his Courts can apply German or any other law and can, in civil actions, enforce an undertaking by a British subject to be bound by German law. But has the King the right, as against his own subjects, to put them under the jurisdiction of a German Court? The `Foreign Jurisdiction Act` provides that the jurisdiction held by the Crown shall be enjoyed in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired that jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory, that is to say, by sole virtue of the prerogative as if China were a Crown Colony, so that the King has absolute power of legislation for his subjects in China by `Order in Council`. But because the King can make laws and establish his own Courts to administer them, it by no means follows that he can hand over British subjects in China to the jurisdiction of a Court of a foreign Sovereign.\n\nBut whether illegal or not, I think such a course would be highly inexpedient. It would tend to confuse a long-established system—the personal law administered by the defendant's Court—which works better than a Western lawyer could imagine possible. If a German Court is to fine a British subject in China, is it to imprison in default of payment? (See `Article 13` of `Order in Council 1907`). The grant of any such power to a German Court would be deeply resented by British subjects. Suppose a breach of Municipal Regulations combined with an assault on a German police constable—a very likely case—is the breach to be tried by the German Court and the assault by the British? I believe that in practice, such an arrangement would breed confusion and contempt for the administration of justice; it would upset a practice with which I thought every foreigner in China was satisfied until I read this paper.\n\nThere is, however, a flaw in the present system, namely, that there is no power to enforce Municipal Regulations on any other subject of a foreign Power except the lot-holder who has entered into an undertaking to be bound by the Concession Regulations. To give an example, how is bye-law 27 of the Canton Land Regulations in regard to riding and driving (`King's Regulation No. 2 of 1905`) to be enforced against a German who, not being a lot-holder, has not given the above undertaking, say a German bluejacket? The bye-law is not German law, and the German Court would have no power to enforce it. The remedy would seem to be Regulations, agreed to by all the Treaty Powers, applying to all Concessions and issued, so far as we are concerned, under `Article 156` of the `Order in Council 1904`. There would, I believe, be no difficulty in drawing one set of Regulations to apply to all Concessions in China.\n\n1. \"Jurisdiction over land\" would be then provided for by the undertaking, and \n2. \"Jurisdiction over foreigners\" by such Regulations, without upsetting the present practice in regard to the jurisdiction. Perhaps these two measures might meet the German requirements. I agree that in both cases, there is a serious difficulty to be met, but I recommend the above course of action as likely to work better in practice than that proposed by Dr. Kriege.\n\n**Supreme Court, Shanghae, February 24, 1909.**\n\n**(Signed) F. S. A. BOURNE**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n### Acting Consul-General Ker to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 12.) Tien-tsin, February 4, 1909.**\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch `No. 6` of the 30th ultimo, inclosing copies of correspondence relative to a proposal put forward by the German Delegate to the International Naval Conference in London for the modification of jurisdiction in the British and German Concessions in China, and calling for an expression of my views on the points raised by Dr. Kriege.\n\nDr. Kriege's suggestion is that the German Consular Authorities should have, within the limits of the German Concession, jurisdiction over British subjects \"in all matters relating to land and to the enforcement of municipal regulations,\" and that the British Consular authorities should have a like jurisdiction over German subjects.\n\nNo case is made out for granting such jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing municipal regulations, and it suffices to apply to this part of the proposal Mr. Hurst's opinion that it \"would thrust upon us a considerable jurisdiction that there would be no advantage in possessing.\"\n\nWith regard to \"land matters,\" Dr. Kriege advances the arguments: (1) that money cannot be safely lent on mortgage unless both parties know their legal position, and (2) that the judgment of a foreign Consular Court cannot be enforced without application to the Consular Court of the Concession Power.\n\nTo meet these arguments, it is only necessary to examine the law and practice prevailing in the British Concession at Tien-tsin. If a German owns a lot in the British Concession and mortgages it to a Frenchman, the instrument of mortgage is registered in the British Consulate-General and nowhere else. The German authorities in Tien-tsin have expressly recognized that such registration is all that is necessary to give validity to the document; for it is obviously essential that the register of mortgages should exist alongside of and be complementary to the land-register.\n\nDuring the forty-eight years that the British Concession has existed in Tien-tsin, no legal proceedings have ever been taken to enforce a mortgage; but, in the case which I have quoted, if the French mortgagee required the help of the law to enforce their rights, they would naturally bring an action against the German mortgagor in the German Court, which, on due proof of the registration of the mortgage, would determine the rights of the parties by an application of the elementary principles of private international law. No further application in the British Consular Court would be necessary; the British Consul-General, acting in their executive capacity, would give effect to the Decree of the German Court.\n\nI venture to submit that the mere statement of the system now in force is sufficient to refute Dr. Kriege's arguments in favour of altering it. The system is, in fact, juridically more sound and logical than that suggested by Dr. Kriege, for even if the change were made, a British Court could only exercise a partial jurisdiction over a German defendant, the exact limits of which it would be impossible to define, for instance, that it is not contemplated that a British judge should have power to commit a German mortgagor to prison for contempt of Court. This is only one of many difficult questions which might arise and which might prove a fertile source of friction and inconvenience.\n\nPage 255 \n[2243 -3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, February 4, 1909. In reply to your despatch No. 6 of the 30th January, I have the honour to report on the points raised by Dr. Kriege as follows:\n\nAs regards mortgages the regulations of this Concession stipulate that all charges by way of mortgage shall, within one month of execution, be registered by the parties or their duly authorized representatives at this office. In the case supposed by Mr. Hurst of A, the alien owner of a lot, mortgaging it to C, an alien of another nationality, it would be C's business to make sure that the mortgage was valid under A's law, and this office would register the mortgage and inform any intending mortgagee or purchaser of the lien on the lot. I have similar mortgages registered at this moment, and in case the mortgagee wishes to foreclose, the mortgagee's Consul would be applied to, if necessary, to order him to transfer the lot or sell it by auction so as to satisfy the claim. My duty would consist simply in witnessing and recording the change of ownership, and in case the new owner were an alien, obtaining the consent of His Britannic Majesty's Legation, and the usual Consular guarantee required by the proviso in our form of title deed.\n\nThe mortgagee remaining subject to his own Consular jurisdiction, no question of enforcing a judgment would arise; at most I should be called on to back a summons or warrant for service or execution.\n\nWere the German proposal adopted, the mortgagee would have to comply with the provisions of an alien law and execute his mortgage in an alien language; and in case of default on his part he would have to plead in an alien Court in a foreign tongue, and, of course, be liable to any penalty, including imprisonment, that that Court chose to impose in order to enforce its decisions.\n\nThe balance of convenience to the landholders would hardly seem to be in favour of the latter arrangement.\n\nAs to execution of judgments in general, the sole requisite in a British Concession is that the summons or warrant for securing the appearance of the alien before his own authorities shall first be backed by this Office; and such backing would never be refused in the case of any but Chinese, and then only in case there were good reason to suspect the bona fides of the plaintiff or prosecutor.\n\nThe same objections as pointed out with reference to mortgages exist against the surrender to a Concession authority of jurisdiction in enforcing the observance of its municipal regulations by aliens. If the alien and his authorities cannot be trusted to carry out their undertaking to observe such regulations, the better course would be to annul the proviso added to our original title deed, by which alien ownership is permitted. It is manifest that the German proposal would, in case of failure to pay rates and taxes on the part of an absent alien lot-holder, drive us to resort to confiscation of his holding, the very step which Dr. Kriege deprecates, since our jurisdiction over him is to be strictly limited. Moreover, the German proposal would tend to international friction, since aliens would be prone to suspect the Concession Consul of unduly insisting upon the strict letter of the Concession regulations, whereas, under the present system, they feel sure their full rights will be vindicated by their own authority, through whose hands all complaints of disobeying the rules must pass. An additional complication would be the difficulty of keeping apart breach of a municipal regulation and such criminal act as assaulting the police when trying to compel appearance before the Concession Consul.\n\nWith reference to the question of \"hypothee\" on the German system, and the fear that the Court of a foreign mortgagor might not always enforce the same, the mortgagee is usually in a position to obtain such terms as he deems requisite, and, as stated in a former report, this Office does not insist on the usual British or any other form of mortgage indenture being used.\n\nThe German proposals would, as far as I can see, afford no more help towards the avoidance of the difficulties brought to your notice in my Intelligence Report for the September Quarter of 1908 (p. 5), than is given under our present system; but the raising of this question might, I submit, lead to the consideration of the framing of a uniform set of municipal rules for securing order, cleanliness and health, which the Diplomatic Body might make binding on all foreigners residing in, or visiting, foreign Concessions in China.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \nE. H. FRASER.\n\n## (No. 13.) Sir,\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n#### Acting Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan\n\nCanton, February 11, 1909. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 7 dated the 30th January, asking for an expression of my views on the subject of the proposed modification of jurisdiction in the British and German Concessions in China.\n\nAs far as Canton is concerned I can see no good reason for changing the present system, which has now been in force for nearly fifty years, either in our own interests or in the interests of German residents on the Concession.\n\nAs regards the enforcements of bye-laws and regulations the interests of the Concessions are protected by the undertaking given by all foreign lot-holders to abide by them, and I have been unable to discover any case where a foreign Consul has refused to compel his nationals to comply, when requested to do so by the Municipal or British Consular Authorities.\n\nTherefore the \"right to evict\" referred to by Dr. Kriege has never, so far as I am aware, been exercised on this Concession.\n\nAs regards land tenure our rights are protected by the fact that all titles to land in the Concession are registered in the British Consulate, and no transfer of land or mortgage of the same can be made without the knowledge and consent of the British Consul.\n\nWe do not allow, for instance, the transfer of a Concession lot to a Chinese subject, and we require that all mortgages shall be registered within one month of execution.\n\nFrom the point of view of British interests, therefore, which I take to be our first consideration, no real advantage would be gained by the extension of our jurisdiction to foreigners in Canton. On the other hand, I cannot see that alien residents on the Concession, the Germans for instance, have anything to complain of.\n\nThey enjoy full extraterritorial rights in all criminal and civil matters, and the special regulations and bye-laws of the Concession can only be enforced with their Consul's consent and in his Court.\n\nDr. Kriege's assertion that \"a judgment of a foreign Consular Court can only be enforced in a Concession settlement by an application to the Consular Court of the Concession Power\" does not, as far as I am aware, apply to Canton.\n\nBoth summonses and warrants, judgments in civil suits, and punishments in criminal cases can be issued or inflicted by a foreign Consul without any reference to this Consulate, unless the assistance of the municipal police is required to carry his orders into effect when, of course, the order in question must be \"backed\" by the British Consul.\n\nIt is only when Chinese subjects on the Concession are concerned that we insist on preliminary proceedings, prior to their being handed over to the Chinese authorities, being taken by a foreign Consul in the British Court.\n\nThese proceedings are seldom, however, of a formal nature, and the attendance in Court of a foreign Consular officer is hardly ever required.\n\nWith regard to land tenure, although we insist on titles to land being registered in accordance with English law—we do not, for instance, allow Concession lots to be held in the name of a firm or unregistered Company—the orders of foreign Courts, in the case of deceased estates, bankruptcy, &c., are accepted as authority for disposal of the property, provided always that the order of the Court is not contested by a claimant to the property or creditor of the estate.\n\nMoney has been borrowed on mortgage by most of the German landholders on the Concession at various periods, usually from British subjects, in a few cases from Germans.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422284, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "311 \n\n2 \n\nremainder restored on conditions to the Chinese. A small part might, he thinks, be reserved for the bona fide uses of the Railway Company.\n\nIt is very doubtful whether a compromise of this kind would be acceptable to the Chinese, who are intent upon recovering their rights over the whole territory, but the Russians would naturally be in a much stronger position to deal with the Chinese if they succeeded in disarming the opposition of other Powers.\n\nThe Chinese are certain to claim a share in the administration of any international Settlement that may be constituted, and I have furnished M. Korostovetz with a copy of the Municipal Regulations of the Settlement at Kulangsu (Amoy), and suggested the possibility of their serving as a basis for what is required at Harbin.\n\nMr. Willis, the Acting Consul-General at Mukden, informs me that the Sun Life Assurance of Canada is now established at Harbin, and that, in reply to an inquiry as to what action they should take in the event of taxes being demanded from them by the Russian authorities, he has advised them to lodge a protest at the Russian Consulate and immediately communicate full details to himself.\n\nIn a private letter which I have just received, Mr. Willis mentions that in the course of a conversation which he had with his Japanese colleague on the 11th instant the latter told him quite frankly that the Japanese Government were awaiting the issue of the Harbin negotiations with great interest, and that they of course would claim whatever privileges the Russians secured in Harbin.\n\nMr. Willis will be relieved towards the end of this month by Mr. Fulford, and I have instructed him to pay a visit to Harbin before proceeding to Newchwang and furnish me with a Report on the situation.\n\nSir,\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Mr. Fisher to Mr. Rockhill**\n\nAmerican Consulate, Harbin, January 16, 1909.\n\nWith reference to the question of the Municipal Administration for Harbin, I have the honour to report to you that the Taotai of Harbin called upon me yesterday and informed me that he had arranged a modus vivendi with the Acting Russian Consul-General here, pending a permanent settlement of the question, as follows: \n(1) That the taxes mentioned in Article 5 of the Regulations drafted by the management of the Eastern Chinese Railway Company (translation of which was forwarded to you with my despatch dated the 20th December, 1907) will not be collected pending the negotiations; \n(2) that the business tax which the Chinese and others have been paying to the Railway Company, irrespective of the Company's municipal scheme, shall be paid to the Railway Company (not to the so-called Town Council under the above-mentioned scheme) pending negotiations, but this payment shall not be taken as a precedent or as an admission that the Railway Company now has the right to enforce the payment of this tax (this tax amounts to 3 roubles per annum for ordinary business enterprises); and \n(3) that the negotiations for a permanent adjustment of the question shall be undertaken at once, and that this arrangement shall not necessarily continue beyond the end of the first moon of the Chinese calendar.\n\nThis arrangement was the outcome of an attempt about a month ago on the part of the railway authorities to close a number of Chinese liquor establishments which had refused to pay the Railway Company's so-called Municipal Administration the business tax under its new scheme, which for liquor establishments amounts to several hundred roubles. The establishments were closed by the Railway Company's police, but were opened by the Chinese authorities the following day; the next day they were again closed. With the conclusion of the above arrangement the places were reopened.\n\nIt was the intention that the so-called Municipal Administration should commence the collection of its taxes from the 1st of the Russian New Year (14th January). When, however, the Taxation Committee called upon some of the foreign business houses to produce their books in order that the assessment of the business or income tax against them might be fixed, they met with a refusal. For instance, the firm of Sennet Frères, a French house, declined to produce its books or pay any taxes other than for the actual maintenance of the streets and for general policing.\n\nRecently the Russian railway police were withdrawn from the Chinese post-office and Customs offices, and Chinese police are now doing duty there. The railway authorities now permit Chinese police to enter the railway territory of Harbin and make arrests of Chinese, providing they are notified, which has resulted in bringing to an abrupt end the reign of robbery, murder, and other outlawry, so far as Chinese disturbers are concerned. In this matter the work of the Taotai in the apprehension and execution of notorious Chinese criminals who have preyed upon the community for years, evidently with the knowledge of the Russian police, is worthy of commendation.\n\nSome time ago, General Horvat, the Acting Russian Consul-General, stated to the Taotai that he realized that the Chinese should have been consulted in formulating the scheme for the Municipal Administration of Harbin, and he asked the Taotai if the question could not be adjusted between Russia and China without the participation of the other Powers on the basis of the Russian Concession at Tien-tsin. The Taotai replied that, inasmuch as Harbin was open to international trade, the rights of the other nations would have to be taken into consideration. General Horvat then asked the Taotai if the railway's municipal scheme, as put forward during the first part of last year, could not be used as a basis for the adjustment of the question; to which the Taotai replied that, while a number of the conditions of that scheme, if taken by themselves, might be acceptable, inasmuch as China did not recognize the Railway Company's right of administration over Harbin, the general principles of the scheme could not be accepted.\n\nDuring his call yesterday, the Taotai asked me if I would, confidentially, give him a rough draft of a project for a Municipal Administration that would be acceptable to us, which he and I could afterwards go over together and revise, and which he would then submit to the Viceroy for his approval; after the Viceroy's approval, it would be used as a basis upon which the Chinese would enter into negotiations with the Russians for the settlement of the question. He asked that I have the draft ready next week, as the time was limited. He added that, as we had supported the Chinese position here, it was due to us to have an Administration that would be acceptable. He urged that I treat the matter confidentially, as the Russians are sensitive in negotiating the question, and will insist upon saving as much face as possible.\n\nThe present phase of the situation appears to offer an opportune occasion for an amicable adjustment of the question by mutual action of all the Diplomatic Representatives at Peking who are interested in the matter. As other nations than ourselves are interested in this question, I realize quite well that their wishes should also be considered. However, as their acceptance of any adjustment that might be made would have to be obtained before it could be applied towards their interests, I see no objection to complying with the Taotai's request, providing such action meets with your approval, and he be informed at the time that my views in the matter might not necessarily be those of my Government. Therefore, unless you instruct me by telegraph not to do so, I will attempt to comply with the request, conforming myself with the general lines indicated in my various despatches forwarded to you on the subject.\n\nIn this connection, I have the honour to refer to my despatch dated the 10th October, 1908, to the Department, especially to the latter part of p. 4, copy of which was forwarded to you with my despatch of the 12th October, 1908. In the instruction, dated the 20th November, acknowledging the receipt of the above despatch, the Department stated that it agreed with the views expressed therein: \"That it would be desirable if an international Settlement, wherein the interests of all could be protected and respected, and which should be administered by a Council elected by all residents, including Chinese, could be established at Harbin.\"\n\nIn my opinion, the functions of a Municipal Administration over Harbin should be restricted strictly to the actual requirements of public peace and good order, and should not include the maintenance of schools, churches and religious organizations, charities, theatres, or any other establishment of a nature that would benefit residents belonging to any one nation more than the others, or matters regarding the development of trade and industries. These matters belong to the parties interested, and should be directed and maintained by them. For instance, the present Board of Trade of Harbin, which is receiving aid from the Railway Company's so-called Administration, is devoting itself solely to the development of Russian trade and industries here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422456, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 485, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[38787]\n\n### No. 1\n\n483\n\n[November 7]\n\n#### SECTION 2\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 7.)\n\n**(No. 441. Confidential.)**\n\nPeking, October 5, 1908.\n\nON receipt of your despatch No. 277 of the 13th June, regarding a proposal for the annexation of the Atoll of Pratas near Hong Kong, I made inquiries of the Governor of Hong Kong, the Naval Commander-in-chief, and His Majesty's Consular Representatives at Canton and Swatow, in the dispatch of which I have the honour to inclose a copy, requesting such information on the subject of this island as they might be able to obtain.\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong furnished me in reply with a copy of his secret despatch of the 23rd July to the Colonial Office, of which a copy has doubtless been communicated to you.\n\nVice-Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton stated that nothing appeared in his records on this subject since the correspondence of 1902. As a wireless telegraph station the island would be valuable to Hong Kong, for the purpose of signalling typhoons, but it was not considered of any practical value in the event of war.\n\nThe reply of His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Canton, of which I have the honour to inclose a copy, affords a complete answer to the question whether the island is claimed by China. In reply to a private letter addressed by Mr. Fox to the Viceroy's Secretary, the latter answered semi-officially that \"there is no doubt as to its status as a Chinese island.\"\n\nMr. Fox also has drawn attention to correspondence which passed between the Consulate and the Viceroy as far back as 1869, when the Chinese authorities were asked by us to take steps to prevent the pillage of wrecks on the island; the request being based on Article 20 of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, thereby virtually recognizing the shoal as a Chinese possession. In his reply to this request, the Viceroy of Canton went so far as to specify the authority on the mainland under whose jurisdiction the island lay. Copies of this correspondence are inclosed herewith.\n\nThere can be no doubt, therefore, that China would have ample grounds for claiming the shoal if she desired to do so.\n\nHis Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Canton apparently misconstrued the object of the inquiries addressed to him, and I have pointed out to Mr. Fox that it would have been wiser not to have applied to the Chinese authorities, at all events in writing, for information which had been called for in a despatch marked \"Confidential.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nSir J. Jordan to the Admiral, China Station, the Governor of Hong Kong, and His Majesty's Consuls at Canton and Swatow. **(Confidential.)**\n\nPeking, August 16, 1908.\n\nI HAVE received a despatch from His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs respecting a proposal made by two British subjects, Messrs. Harry Kendall Carse Newman and Langton Wilkinson, to the effect that His Majesty's Government should annex the islet of Pratas in the China Seas.\n\nThis islet, which is situated about 170 miles due south-east of Hong Kong, in latitude 20° 42' 3\" north and longitude 116° 43′ 14\" east of Greenwich, would appear never to have been formally occupied by, or claimed as forming part of the possessions of any Power, but from the voluminous correspondence inclosed in Sir E. Grey's despatch above-mentioned, there would seem to be indications that, although the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n2\n\nWe submit, is an arbitrary extension of the terms of the treaty. We feel certain that Japan would not attempt to maintain this principle in the face of a strong representation from His Majesty's Government; but as we have been unable to assure the Chinese Government that the Foreign Office will resist this obvious attempt of the Japanese to close Mongolia to British railway enterprise, our position has become very weak.\n\nThe case outlined above is one of many in which we have undertaken survey contracts in China, in the hope that on completion the Chinese Government would decide to build the lines in question and give us the construction contracts.\n\nAs our future action in China must necessarily depend upon the accuracy or inaccuracy of the conclusion we have formed from the Fakumen and Canton-Hankow negotiations—namely, that His Majesty's Government restrict their support to the British and Chinese Corporation—we have decided to put our case plainly before you in this question of the Chenchow-Taonanfu scheme in order to obtain the views of the Foreign Office, and by them we shall be decisively guided in our future policy.\n\nWe have the honour to request an early consideration of our case, as the survey is now being carried out, and the Chinese Government will be compelled to take a decision as to the conclusion of a construction contract with us at no distant date; and we would be grateful if Sir Edward Grey would be good enough to accord Mr. George Pauling an opportunity of personally discussing the questions which form the subject of this letter, and on which we are anxious that His Majesty's Government should be very fully informed.\n\nWe would therefore be glad to learn when Sir Edward Grey could receive Mr. Pauling.\n\nWe are, &c.\nPauling and Co. (Limited),\n\nTHO. SCOTT, Secretary.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[22182]\n\nC. O.\n\n26\n\n23208\n\n[June 14]\n\nJULAS\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 14.)\n\n**(No. 202.)**\n\nPeking, May 26, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Mukden regarding the negotiations which have been proceeding for some time past between the Japanese consul-general and the Chinese authorities there for the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway.\n\nA reference to the map of South Manchuria in the pamphlet which formed an enclosure in my despatch `No. 191` of the 24th May will help to elucidate the points at issue between the two parties.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n#### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n### Acting Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 14.)**\n\nMukden, May 14, 1909.\n\nNEGOTIATIONS have been proceeding for some time past between the Japanese consulate-general here and the Chinese authorities with reference to the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway line, but no agreement has yet been arrived at, and the question now appears to be shelved pending the arrival of the newly-appointed Viceroy, his Excellency Hai Liang.\n\nUnder article 6 of the Peking Convention of the 22nd December, 1905, Japan was given the right to maintain and work the military line constructed between Antung and Mukden, and to improve the line so as to fit it for the conveyance of commercial and industrial goods. Three years were allowed for the completion of the line, and after the expiry of this term the concession was to run for fifteen years, when China had the option of repurchase.\n\nThe Japanese now wish to bring the line from Antung to Su Chia-tun, where it will join the South Manchurian Railway, and it is to this proposal that the Chinese authorities are offering determined opposition.\n\n| Point of contention | Japanese proposal | Chinese opposition |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Terminus | Su Chia-tun | ... |\n| Line length | Shortened by 20 miles | ... |\n| Hun river | No necessity to bridge | ... |\n| Redemption | Japan in possession of Mukden terminus in 1923 | ... |\n| Extra-territoriality | Preserved | ... |\n\nThe Japanese authorities claim that under the new scheme the portion of the line to be reconstructed is shortened by about 20 miles, and there will also be no necessity to bridge the Hun river. Although there would seem to be an undoubted economic gain in this direction, it seems evident that when the time for the redemption of the line by China arrives in 1923, Japan, being in possession of the Mukden terminus, will practically be in a position to enforce her own terms.\n\nFurther, by bringing the line to Su Chia-tun, the necessity of crossing the South Manchurian branch line between Su Chia-tun and the Fushun mines is obviated, and the principle of the extra-territoriality of the South Manchurian line, to which the Japanese Government evidently attach the greatest importance, is strictly preserved.\n\nThere are, I understand, many other points of difference between the negotiators, the most important of which are the question of policing the line, Japan maintaining that it should form part of the South Manchurian system, and the position of the terminus at Antung, which the Japanese wish to place in the Japanese Settlement, to the detriment, it is claimed, of the native city.\n\nHis Excellency the Viceroy Isu informed me recently in the course of conversation that he saw no immediate prospect of any settlement of the question.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\n[23170-8]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422716, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# \nat Urga had caused a room to be prepared at the Consulate from the date of the receipt of M. Pokotilow's letter-seven months before my actual arrival. On arriving, however, at Urga I inhabited a Chinese inn, feeling more independent in my movements, and it was the easier to decline the Russian hospitality without giving offence, as Mr. Shishmareff was himself in the country. In Uliassutai the Russian Consular officer would not hear of my taking any meals except in his house. My relations with the Acting Consul at Chuguchak were of an especially cordial character, while those with the Consul at Kuldja were extremely friendly. To one and all I explained in the course of private conversation, without laying any emphasis on the words, that I had no mission, that I was on my way home to England by this route, partly because of the hope of getting some sport, partly because of my interest in the vie intime of the Mongols. No secret was made of the route I had traversed, nor of that by which I proposed to travel.\n\n## **Confidential**\nIt is, however, my conviction that my visit was viewed by the Russians as an intrusion, and that a significance was attributed to the journey quite out of keeping with its character, and it is my duty to add that no doubt remains in my mind that all my movements and actions were noted and reported to Peking or St. Petersburgh.\n\nThe Belgian Minister in Peking courteously furnished me with an official letter of introduction to Mgr. Bermuyn, head of the Belgian Mission in the Ordos, which, together with a private letter from one of the Secretaries, proved very valuable.\n\nOne of the Secretaries of the Japanese Legation at Peking offered me a letter of introduction to a Japanese resident in Urumtsi, in case I should visit that town. This is interesting as showing that the Japanese Legation have cognizance of this man's presence at Urumtsi.\n\n## Relations with Chinese Officials\nThe Wai-wu Pu were notified, when application for the passport was made at Peking, of the route by which I intended to travel. At the request of the Wai-wu Pu the Lifanpu Board (Board of Dependencies) informed various officials in the distant dependencies, and requested them to render all assistance possible. This notification had, I found, been sent to the principal of the Ordos Princes' Yamens, to Sair Ussu, where the roads for Urga and Uliassutai fork, and to the settlements of Northern Mongolia and Turkestan. It had not been my intention to call upon any Chinese officials en route, except in case of necessity as, apart from the tedium of the etiquette of Chinese visits, Chinese officials outside the Great Wall are apt to magnify the importance of the civilian traveller until the rumour is spread abroad that the British Minister himself is touring the provinces. The number of visits was, therefore, restricted to three in the first three months. In Northern Mongolia, however, it was different, for no foreign traveller can stay in the settlements without the Governor's permission. It was, therefore, essential and only courteous to call upon that individual. From every official visited I received the warmest welcome (not excepting the so-called anti-foreign one at Kobdo), and every mark of courtesy which a rigid Chinese etiquette imposes; in this respect, I was considerably assisted by my interpreter who, being a Manchu, was persona grata, and who had indeed sometimes personal friends among the officials, or had worked in the same office with others, or had met them on duty in the Palace. To avoid all misunderstandings I endeavoured to make in each case the same explanations respecting the reason for the journey as I did to the Russian officials.\n\nThe following point is necessary to remember in order to maintain good relations in North Mongolia. To secure these with the Chinese, cordial relations must be established with the Russians. The reason for this will be apparent. The Chinese officials have almost daily relations with the Russian Consular authorities. To get on badly with the latter is a serious matter for the Chinese official, involving possibly disgrace and loss of office. He will therefore do nothing to displease the Russians, and will see as much or as little of the casual foreign traveller according as the latter stands well or ill with the Russians. This attitude of deference to Russian officials is so extremely marked at Urga and Uliassutai that one could detect the note of anxiety in the Governor's voice as he asked whether a visit had been paid to the Russian Consul and the relief when the reply was in the affirmative.\n\nThe information obtained from Chinese officials, and which is recorded in these pages, was the result of merely friendly conversations, during which the various points on which I desired to obtain the most accurate information were carefully approached. Chinese officials, in the provinces at least, seem always ready to talk on what they have done, what is happening locally, or who has passed, and if they are not quite certain they appeal to some of the retainers standing round, who know as much as their masters.\n\n## Peking to Kalgan\nThe day fixed for leaving Peking was the 6th April. On Sunday, the 5th April, the three \"Peking\" carts which had been hired to take us as far as Kweihuacheng were dispatched to Nankow under the charge of the travelling servants. The carts contained all the stores and equipment for the journey with the exception of personal luggage. A clear day was thus obtained to look round and see that nothing had been left undone.\n\nThe carts were obtained from the man who was employed in 1900 to lead the late Emperor's cart on his flight. The man was subsequently decorated. He is now an innkeeper on a large scale, and besides keeping one in Peking owns another in Kweihuacheng, &c. This is the reason why the carts could be hired comparatively cheap (said my boy), the price paid for each being 33 dollars a-day (7s.). This was for two good mules, the carter finding himself and the animals in everything. Had we only been going as far as Kalgan--where this man has no inn--we should have had to pay for fourteen days (seven days there and as many back), or at least we should have been asked to pay.\n\nI found out subsequently, however, that the proper price for carts between Peking and Kweihuacheng is not more than 20 dollars, especially when the frost is in the ground and the road consequently good. It depends, of course, to a certain extent on the season of the year, on which depend in their turn the price of fodder and the possibility of securing trade for the returning carts. Of the 50 dollars per cart which we paid, each carter got 28 dollars, the remainder being pocketed by the Peking owner, with a handsome commission for the \"honest\" servant. The carters had petitioned to be allowed to spend one night en route on the plain at their homes at Kuanshib, but I ordered them to proceed direct to Nankow. This order, however, did not prevent them carrying out their own inclinations.\n\nI myself left at 1 P.M. on the 6th April, among the many kind friends who assembled at the Legation main gate to see me off being my faithful Lama teacher, who presented a silk scarf, the customary Mongol offering, which anticipates and requires a present in return. Of the Peking-Kalgan Railway it will suffice to say that I found great activity being displayed throughout the line. Work had been begun at the Kalgan end a week before my arrival, and it was confidently asserted that the whole line would be ready for use in 1910. A wild rumour had reached Peking that the extension of the line from Kalgan to Kweihuacheng had been already begun, but I found this to be entirely false; it possibly arose from the commencement of work at the Kalgan end of the line, or to the efforts of the Chinese at Kalgan to establish a motor-car service to Urga.\n\nApril 7.--My Peking servants let off the fire crackers which had been forbidden them in the Legation with great vehemence, and secured for me a safe journey free from the hill devils up the pass. Sending the carts on ahead we ascended the pass on donkeys. Passing the ancient Fort of Chüyungkwan we reached the inner Great Wall at 1 P.M., only to find that the carts had mistaken their instructions, and taken lunch on to Chatao, a hamlet 14 miles down the other side of the mountains. This, however, was retrieved, and at 3 P.M. the final good-byes were said in the most fitting place, the archway spanning the great north road with a view down to the plain of Peking on the south side, while to the north the imaginative eye could look ahead over the valleys and mountain ranges to the Mongolian plateau. A remarkable feature of the valley leading up to the wall is the dearth of animal or bird life. There was, however, a steady flow of traffic, and the dust raised by this was terrible. Descending to Chatao the carts were in motion by 8:30 P.M., and we reached the valley of the Yangho, a tributary of the Hunho, over a rock-strewn road many inches deep in dust, and in no whit improved since I was last on it in 1906. We were in Hwailaihsien by 8:45 P.M., and put up at the same inn I had stayed at before. Our arrival in the inn was hardly hospitable, as we had to fight our way in, the gateway being blocked by heavy carts, from whom the gate-keeper was extracting a large squeeze, which he was unwilling to lose by letting them in to allow us to pass. We gained the day, however, and the carts owed us a debt of gratitude.\n\nApril 8.--We left Hwailai in a north-west direction. A cold south-east wind blew steadily all day, raising such volumes of dust that it was difficult to see the caravans even when close by. On our left in the distance there was deep snow on the tops of the Shaholing and Hsiao Wutaishan. There was a great deal of traffic on the road, camels bringing down bricks of salt or dried beans, donkeys carrying jars of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 135\n\nasking for repayment. The King is said to have borrowed 10,000 taels from the late M. Pokotilow six years ago on the occasion of His Majesty's last visit to Peking. M. Pokotilow was then head of the Russo-Chinese Bank. It is said that the Russians are pressing for repayment of this. In a State like Alashan, there is little secrecy, everyone knowing his neighbour's affairs, and these rumours about the King's indebtedness are probably true. The people of Alashan are a pastoral people, with little silver, and they have been taxed as high as they can bear; house rents have also risen—so much so that the Chinese are contemplating a protest at Peking, so that neither of these sources of income can be touched again. Hence, I think, springs the subserviency of the King to the Russians, from whom he hopes to borrow more money. For this, they are doubtless looking for a suitable security, and this security is probably the right to work minerals in the Alashan Mountains.\n\n## The Kozloff Expedition\n\nIt is in the Buriat's house that Colonel Kozloff has taken up his abode, and over which the Russian flag flies. Colonel Kozloff, who is travelling for the Russian \"Academics,\" is accompanied by a botanist and a geologist, as well as by a purely Russian escort, consisting of five Cossacks and five Buriats, the whole under a Russian corporal with the appearance of a General, so magnificent is he. The expedition arrived some three weeks ago and is to stay some three weeks or so longer. I did not see the botanist or geologist who had gone with most of the escort into the Alashan Mountains for three weeks. The route of the expedition has been via Uliassutal and Urga to Dinyuaning. It will proceed southwards to Lanchow and Kokoncor, and will be absent a year or fifteen months. The object of the expedition is to collect specimens of the flowers and birds of the Alashan Range, and to examine the mountains from a geological point of view. Another object is astronomical. Cases of snakes in spirits and stuffed birds have already been sent to Russia, and others are in course of preparation. A discussion on the correct method of stuffing birds led to the production of some ready for transmission. The expedition is well fitted out with barometers and barographs, guns, rifles, and photographic apparatus. The latter is for plates, not films, and these Colonel Kozloff develops himself. I understood the Colonel to say that he did not shoot or stuff the various animals himself, and he appears to confine himself to the more scientific portion of the expedition, the care of the barometers, and to work with a fine telescope he has with him. For this latter work, he has fitted up a small shed on a stand 12 feet high in the courtyard of the Buriat's house. The Alashan Range is reported by all previous travellers to be extremely rich in all minerals, except iron, and coal is said to be exceptionally good. This is very little worked, and that only in a very crude way.\n\nColonel Kozloff speaks a little Mongol and a little Chinese, but no European language except Russian, except for a few words of very broken French. In appearance, he is tall, dirty, and untidy. He dresses in uniform every day. He has distinctly the appearance of a savant, and while I have no doubt whatever that the objects of his expedition are as defined by him, my impression is that he is being utilized also for some political purpose at Dinyuaning, and he is certainly strengthening the Russian prestige with the Prince there, and tightening the hold which the Russians seem to have already acquired over that vassal of China. Whether he is exerting pressure to obtain repayment of the sum of money alleged to have been lent by M. Pokotilow, or whether he is obtaining written promises of Concessions for mines in the Alashan or for a railway from Urga southwards, I cannot say, but both these are possibilities which it would be idle to ignore. The length of time the mission has stayed in Alashan and the daily visits of the Buriat to the King, have aroused considerable suspicion locally, and to these may be added the deferment of the closing of the Buriat's store, which has proved admittedly a financial failure, from season to season. As regards the visit of the expedition to Kokonoor, which is undoubtedly in Thibet, I twice casually mentioned that it was now défendu for us to visit Thibet, otherwise I should have gone there myself. Colonel Kozloff, however, did not understand my words. I have no doubt that he intends to carry out that part of his programme, and he is such a genuine enthusiast respecting travelling in, and exploration of, these regions, that it is possible he may be tempted to travel even farther into East Thibet, and the escort of Russian soldiers would do away with any necessity for the Colonel to ask for one from the Chinese authorities. The Colonel is therefore entirely his own master, and is not likely to be interfered with by any of the Chinese local authorities.\n\nI have forgotten to add that all the missionaries (an unsuspecting race of people) were surprised at my innocence in believing in the alleged objects of the expedition. They were themselves convinced that there was a question of Concessions for mines either in the mountains or in the Gobi, which is stated to be rich in minerals and precious stones. The Roman Catholics were especially apprehensive, and were of opinion that Russia, baulked in Manchuria and China, was busier than ever weaving her web over Mongolia.—Ninghsia, 2nd June, 1908.\n\n## 41\n\nThe following extract from my diary, dated Kweihuacheng, the 27th June, is of interest:—\n\n\"A couple of minutes after leaving the inn (for the journey across Gobi) we met a European entering the town. He was a young English-speaking German, the representative in Peking of the Tien-tsin German engineering and mining firm of ... and Schroeder. He travels a good deal in the interior, and has been away from Peking since March. At Singanfu, he was sent for to Lanchow in connection with the bridge over the Yellow River which his firm are constructing, and in which an Englishman (Tackey) is consulting engineer. At Lanchow, he received an urgent message from the King of Alashan begging him to visit Fumafu. The King sent his own camels and tent down to Ninghsia for the engineer's convenience and subsequently sent him back to the river at Schischnisze in the same manner. From Schischnisze, he had come to Bautu by boat. He was hastening back to Peking, and his whole attitude confirmed my suspicions that there was some mining business in the air in Alashan. Colonel Kozloff and party were still there, and were not expected to leave for the south for some time. My own impression from what I saw and heard throughout Mongolia is that the King of Alashan is in debt to some Russian Agents, possibly the Russo-Chinese Bank at Urga, who are pressing for payment and are content to take a mining Concession temporarily at any rate.\"\n\nAs regards the visit of the Kozloff expedition to Kokonoor, it must be added that while all English and, indeed, many other maps mark the district of Kokonoor as being in Thibet, it is not considered so by the Russian Government, nor indeed, I believe, by the Chinese Government. It would be interesting to know the limits of this district, especially towards the south, for the name is sprawled over a very large area on the map, and it would be equally interesting to know how many of the other States on the fringe of Thibet and which figure in English maps under the name of Thibet are considered by the Russians to be Chinese and not Thibetese Provinces.\n\n# 65\n\nCheguchak, October 1.—At dinner at the Russian Consulate, we had an animated conversation on the subject of Kozloff and Kokonoor. The latter was said to be a Chinese province, so I asked what its capital was. The reply was \"Kukukhoto.\" I objected that this was merely the Mongol name for Kweihuacheng, a town in North Shansi, and this was eventually agreed to, but no one could say what the capital of Kokonoor in that case was.—London, December 1908.\n\n## Fumafu to Ninghsiafu\n\nMay 30.—We left for the south by the slightly longer but easier route for Ninghsiafu. We kept south parallel to the Alashan Mountains, but slightly above the level of the plain on the slopes of the foothills. The road was broad and good, stony but not sandy; the first few miles were slightly undulating, after which it became level. After leaving the Oasis of Fumafu, the country is bleak and desolate with no trees except at the rare farms sighted or passed. There was no vegetation except some occasional rough grass. It was a dreary road, with to the left the bleak low foothills leading up to and partly concealing the fine mountain chain, to the right a gentle stony slope down to the plains and hot sands beyond. The breeze blew little whirlpools of sand which drifted like geysers about the plain in a detached manner. We reached Yoba, our halting place for the night at mile 20, passing at mile 19 the residence of a brother of the Alashan King.\n\nYoba is a solitary house; inn accommodation is good, but supplies are both dear and scarce. The inn is kept by Chinese, and not by Mongols.\n\nMay 31.—We started in a south-eastern direction, the road being excellent, but dreary in the extreme, leading as before over a bleak desolate uncultivated and almost uninhabited country. The only traffic we met were carts bringing pigs for sale at Fumafu, and others taking wood to Ninghsia. The inn at Yoba has plenty of work, as all traffic either way stops there.\n\nAt Cheng yo schui (after 10 miles), where there is a good inn, we turned eastwards to penetrate and break through the mountains. The road continues excellent, but...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 85 \n\n## Appearance of the Town and Initial Interactions\n\nThe man I met had the appearance of being quite past work. He had spent forty years in Uliassutai. His rank was that of sergeant and his pay only 60 taels (91) a-year; my servant said that did not matter as he probably made 300 taels (157). He said that I had been expected for a long time and that rooms had been prepared for me in another inn, whither we went. This inn was in reality a Government house where all foreigners and officials are lodged at Government expense. I declined to accept this arrangement and bought my own stores daily.\n\nIn the afternoon, I received a visit from a Chinese-speaking Mongol, who is employed at the yamên as interpreter. He lives in his yurt a couple of miles away and visits the yamên every day to see if there is any work; he assured me, however, that there was rarely anything to do; for this, he receives 6 taels (18s.) a-month, the use of a pony, and one servant, and yet he grumbled.\n\n## Meeting the Acting Chiangchün\n\nLate in the same afternoon, I visited the Acting Chiangchün. Kwei Huan is really assistant to the Tartar General, but for nearly three years, he has acted as Tartar General. He was at one time Assistant Amban and subsequently Amban in Tibet. He was at Darjeeling when the Sikkim Treaty was signed at Calcutta. He is a man of 60 and looks firm and honest. He is approved of by the Russians both here and at Urga, and they hope he will succeed the present Amban at the latter place; his policy is probably, therefore, in accordance with their own.\n\nI asked the General whether Chinese were to be imported to open up the country; he replied that the land was not suited for cultivation, but subsequently admitted that a little wheat would grow in the valleys. It is worth noting that vegetables grow plentifully at Uliassutai, especially beans, turnips, and potatoes. The General has adopted many foreign ways, and among these, the art of photography, which he has also taught his daughter. He showed me with evident pride a photo (not taken by himself) of a group taken after the signing of the Sikkim Treaty. His Excellency unfortunately drinks too much.\n\n## Meeting the Russian Consul\n\nAugust 17.-I called on the Russian Consul in the morning; he was extremely friendly. He is a married man of some 37 years. He told me he has a guard of ten Cossacks; these he uses for postal work. He has only recently come to reside at Uliassutai; formerly, the work was done from Urga, an assistant being sent here from time to time. The Chinese preferred that arrangement and have steadily refused to recognize the establishment of a Consulate here.\n\n### Chuguchak, October 3\n\nThe following entry in my diary is interesting: \"Loutchitch (the Acting Consul at Chuguchak) said it was very strange the Chinese would not recognize a Russian Consul at Uliassutai; he was therefore only `fonctionnaire du Ministère.`\" He said the old system (by which an assistant was sent from Urga to do the work) was inconvenient, and that it was better to keep a man on the spot, but the Chinese would not concede this right. I said that as the Russians kept a man there who acted as Consul and did the work, their purpose seemed to be served equally well. I imagine, however, that the Russians think they lose face if they do not get everything their own way.\n\nThe Russian Consulate and Russo-Chinese Bank are low wooden buildings situated in a lane leading off from the main street. They are buildings of no pretension whatever, with large courtyards in front of them; they are protected by high palisades such as are in general use in Uliassutai. The Consul has erected two yurts in his yard, which he finds more comfortable, especially in winter, when the cold is intense. He has a staff of two young men from the Urga School of Languages.\n\nM. Dorbijeff (the Consul) fears he may be appointed before long as Consul-General at Urga; he would much prefer Kashgar. Both he and his wife have travelled extensively over Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan.\n\n## Meeting the Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank\n\nI subsequently called on M. Dresscher, the Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank. He speaks Russian and German and understands French and English, though he speaks neither of these latter.\n\nThere is extremely little business done by the Russian Bank here, and the branch is, it is said, being run at a loss; this is partly due to the incompetency on the part of M. Dresscher. The Chinese prefer to do business with their own bank or firms.\n\nThe Russian Consul confirmed the news that the branch is going to be closed (the Manager at Urga had also told me the same story). The Mongol yamên interpreter said the bank would be closed when outstanding debts had been collected. In view of what the Russian Bank had told the Amban at Urga to the same effect, I view the statement of the imminent closing of this branch here with some suspicion; possibly, in view of the lack of business, it may be temporarily closed or reopened elsewhere.\n\nThe Consul said that the Russian wool merchants here were very wealthy and had no need of a bank, though this was perhaps a convenience for them.\n\nThe Acting Consul-General and bank Manager returned my calls the same afternoon (the 17th August).\n\n## Continuing the Journey to Kobdo\n\nDirectly on arrival yesterday (the 16th August), I had opened the attack with the police officer regarding hiring animals or carts to continue the journey to Kobdo, but had been met by a non possumus. I carried on the attack with the General, who said it was an absolute impossibility to hire anything in Uliassutai; that it was his duty to help me to get animals, but that he knew it to be impossible. On the following day, I had to yield to his wish that I should continue by the Tai road to Kobdo. Everyone agreed that it was impossible to buy fodder for ponies or camels at Uliassutai, and that in this case, we should have to proceed very slowly or else take an enormous number of animals, while they again added it would not be possible to procure these.\n\n## Inspecting the Troops\n\nOne afternoon, I went over to the \"fortress\" to try and inspect the troops. The town is like any ordinary Chinese town and is composed of narrow dirty lanes with wretched wood or mud houses on either side. I wandered down the lanes looking for some signs of barracks and, finding none, asked a man where the soldiers lived. He didn't know; a second man gave the same answer; a third was a little more hopeful. He had heard of police, and there were some in a temple close by. On reaching this, I found eight rifles stacked outside. Now I thought we were near the soldiers, but there was not a soul to be found inside. Issuing dejected, we ran against a lama who informed us that the soldiers had gone to dinner. Going down another lane, we entered a squalid building and found four men having tea and weighing money, which was being done up into neat little packets. This turned out to be the paymaster's office; tomorrow was the quarter-day, and the little packets contained each man's pay. I then found that there were no barracks, but that every man lived in his own home, no one being allowed to live in the \"fortress\" unless he had some connection with the administration. The \"army\" consisted of 250 infantry and 150 cavalry (these latter being the outside Mongols already mentioned).\n\nAs there were 272 little packets of money already made up, and a modest amount of silver yet to be weighed, the number of men is probably accurate. Each man was to get 3 t. 40 c., which works out at 1 t. 13 c. per month, 200 catties of rice, and 100 catties of wheat a-year. The money comes direct to Uliassutai from Shansi, some revenue there being earmarked for the garrison here. The men are Chih-li or Shansi men (from Hsuanhuafu or Tatungfu) and serve here for five years. If they like to do so at their own expense, they can go home for a holiday. With the exception of a few, all the rifles are locked up in the yamên, whence they emerge twice a-year for parade, as the men never drill and never have any rifle practice; they can hardly be considered very efficient. The rifles are of German pattern. I did not think it worth while to ask as to ammunition, for as this branch is probably looked after with the same lack of zeal, it did not seem to matter much whether the supply was plentiful or not. I asked whether there was any hospital for the sick, but the reply was in the negative. If anyone were sick, he went to a doctor at the yamên, who deducted a fee from his pay, and the man returned home with his medicine. Beating on the lower part of the thighs is the punishment. The only uniform is a kind of loose waist-coat.\n\nTo sum up the garrison, the force struck me as one which might be of use to defend the walls against a civil foe provided these had no cannon. It is perhaps quite impossible for the \"garrison\" to take the field. It would be fortunate for the Chinese Empire that the Mongols are a peaceful race.\n\n## Fête Day and Dinner with the Acting General\n\nAugust 18. Both late last night and early this morning, numerous crackers were let off in the town in honour of the God of Silver, a god whom it is certainly advisable for the Chinese at Uliassutai to propitiate.\n\nThe Russian Consul, the Manager of the bank, and myself attended a dinner given by the Acting General in the afternoon in my honour. The Manager of the Chinese Bank was also invited, as well as several small Chinese officials.\n\nThe dinner was of the usual type and was marked by much geniality and the consumption of a great amount of brandy and other wines by our host. After the first bottle of brandy, we adjourned to the garden to be photographed in three separate places by the Chiangchün. We then returned to the house for the more serious portion of the banquet. The Manager of the Chinese Bank, a Shansi man and native of Taiyuanfu, told me that shares for the Pootung Railway were in the market.\n\n## Inspecting the Police Stations\n\nAugust 19.-I inspected the most easterly of the police stations, one of which is at either end of the main street. Ten soldiers are kept at the west end, and thirty at the east end. The station is at the same time a temple. There was a stack of rifles.\n\nPage 363 \nZ [2155 b-1] \n157", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "174 \n\n118 \n\nif sick they have to go to any doctor they can, and have to pay for treatment themselves. I did not ask to see the rifles which are probably of Noah's Ark pattern, as I felt that whatever they were they would be quite wasted on this inefficient, opium-smoking, rotten garrison. I met the Major on way back, an aged man of over 60, who was very effusive, begged me to return and take tea, which I declined. Returning to city, skirted west wall and south wall as far as gate, and took broad avenue leading south-west for about a mile--past some brick-kilns--to another barracks, the cavalry one. A fort of the same pattern precisely--possibly a trifle smaller. Here a Captain commands, drawing the same pay as the Major at the other fort. I heard there were 125 on register, but in reality only 70 or 80, most of whom had gone with the Captain to meet the Chentai. The faces of the few left betrayed opium sots. \n\nA soldier gets 5 taels 55 cents a month, but has to pay for his own horse on journeying; the cost of this being some 3 taels--is deducted from his pay. When he wants to leave he cuts off some of the hair and tail, and tells the Captain that the pony is dead. \n\nThe place was horribly dirty; pigs and fowls were running about everywhere, and the Captain's wife and family tumbling about the dirty yards. I asked what work the soldiers had to do, and they thought they had a great deal. In summer, some are told off to take the horses out to grass, others to clean the yard, get wood, and ride with letters. In summer the horses feed outside, in winter they are kept inside dark stalls, of ordinary Chinese inn pattern, and get straw and hay; this the Captain has to find himself. \n\nChuguchak, as regards defences, might be able to resist a native foe, a foreign one would entirely disregard it or be inside the yamên in ten minutes. In the evening I had a talk with a Chinese man who said that his brother had been murdered not long ago by a Russian Hassack. The murderer was caught, but after confinement for two or three days at Bakhti was reported to have died of cold. Chinese authorities are powerless, or else are too anxious to please the Russians in order to retain their posts, from which they could be easily ousted by hints at Peking and elsewhere as to their corruption and financial mismanagement, to take active steps. If only a portion of what I heard as to the lawlessness of Russian subjects is true, any complaints of the Russian Government as to the infraction of the frontier or lawlessness of Chinese subjects are distinctly one-sided. \n\nI dined at the Russian Consulate in the evening. Poor Loutchitch was very tired after two days' strenuous work, seeing off his Consuls, and interviewing Chinese officials and carrying on routine work, and it was rather unfair to tackle him in such a state. It was then that I asked him about the Consulate guard at Urga. He said that everything was necessary for prestige in Mongolia where the people were savage (I have endeavoured to show by my solitary journey without an escort that the people are really most friendly disposed). Loutchitch asked me if I had heard that the Governor was in trouble over the Hassack murder question: I said yes, and asked him if it was true, and he confirmed it. It seems that the executed official had really been squeezing, but, as Loutchitch said, there was not much difference between all the officials as far as that went. They (the Russian Consulate) possessed strong documentary evidence inculpating the Governor in this matter and also in other peculations, and they found it very useful, when discussing matters which required a prompt settlement, to leave a written statement of moneys stolen by his Excellency on the table close to where he sat; they had seen the signs of distress on his Excellency's face on noticing the paper. Loutchitch was speaking in all sincerity, and, while allowing a slight margin for exaggeration, it shows how the Russian officials get the upper hand in Mongolia, for they hold the dishonest officials (and who is not?) in the hollow of their hands. There is little difficulty in obtaining evidence against them in a country where practically all is known. The only doubt is as to the legitimacy of the use of knowledge so obtained, and this does not seem to disturb the Russians. \n\nTalking of my own journey Loutchitch laughed, and said it had taken him forty days to come from Urga to Chuguchak instead of twenty. How did I know he had not followed me about? He then spoke seriously, and said that he had been obliged to visit the Iro gold mines in the mountains to the north-east of Urga to see how matters were going there, and that he had found the utmost and most lamentable chaos and confusion. \n\nOctober 4.--The Russian Consulate guard only consists of two Cossacks, and an increase in this is unlikely in view of the proximity of Bakhti, where there are three companies (one of cavalry, infantry, and artillery respectively). \n\nAt Bakhti begins the Russian posting system to Sergiopol and thus to Semipalatinsk. \n\n119 \n\nI had some conversation with Loutchitch over Russian affairs and the war; he said that now it was too late everyone was busy with reforms, that there had been the utmost peculation in everything; that the second Siberian line now being laid would cost very much less than the first one, for it was shorter; that it had been found that the first had been purposely made out of the straight, in order to give the contractors a large profit, while towns had been left away from the line, because they had not given the contractor a present. I mentioned Pavloff's name as an instance of what had been done, and he said, What was that? Simply a drop in the ocean of corruption that had gone on. \n\nWhile there is nothing new in all this, it is, I think, of interest, as showing that the Russian officials nowadays allow themselves to speak openly of these matters. \n\n## SECTION VIII--CHUGUCHAK TO KULDJA. \n\nWe had now used camels for the last time, and this section of the journey was performed in carts of the \"Peking\" pattern, drawn by two mules. The wheels were, however, further apart from the body than is usually the case, and admitted of heavy luggage being placed on a board between the body and the wheel. We hired the carts as far as Shihu (six days' distance to the south), at the rate of 13 taels (39s.) a-piece. \n\nLeaving Chuguchak on the 4th October we slept a night at Kwantien, and reached Emilho at noon on the 5th October. The boy's bill, on leaving Chuguchak, was interesting, as showing the expenses of travelling. It only amounted to 15 taels (45s.) for the three servants and myself for the five days we had spent in the town, and also for the necessary provisions for us all for another six days. \n\nAt Emilho we had trouble with the carters, who wished to spend the rest of the day here buying fodder and food. While waiting for an hour here we came across our host of Altaishan, who was busy trying to dispose of the 5,000 sheep he had bought from Sharasumé; prices, he said, were bad, and he would probably have to take most of them on to Ili. \n\nCrossing the Emilho, we kept in a south direction over a flat and dreary plain to a small hamlet, standing among some fine trees, called Errhtao chiao sze, 8 miles from Emilho. Here, as at each of the hamlets we had to pass, is a Government rest-house and small picket. A couple of soldiers accompanied us from one station to the next, where they were relieved by their colleagues. \n\nThe rest-houses consist of mud walls and a kang, nothing else. At this village we struck the line of telegraph poles, and kept alongside them for the rest of the way to Kuldja. The service is so little looked after that in many places the poles were nearly lying on the ground, and almost everywhere the wires sagged tremendously. In winter snow must cause a great deal of delay to the service. \n\nOctober 6.--The road is excellent and requires no keeping up. Keeping south over the plain, and crossing several small streams, we reached Lofengkou at mile 138. It is difficult to see the use of the escort from stage to stage, unless it is to protect us from the soldiers themselves, for, with the exception of an occasional drover, we met no one, and the country was open, and there were no houses. The rest-house here was gay with red felt, rugs, and carpets, in preparation for the Chentai's return journey. \n\nI went to see the Captain in charge of the picket of four men. \n\nHe has only been here a year; he said the men were never changed, their duties were only to act as escort and to keep a look-out for robbers. Presumably, too, to mend the telegraph wire if necessary. \n\nAscending over the easy shoulder of a low range of hills, we descended into another plain, and rose again steadily to a mountain chain in front of us, the Djair Shan; to the west were the Barlik Shan, and to the east other ranges of hills. We reached Toling after another 13 miles. \n\nOctober 7.--The villagers here were very eloquent about the Governor, the loathing for whom seems to reach to every part of his district. He is known as the merchant Governor. Irritation is great over the murder of the Hassack official. The villagers say that the Russian Consul tried to save him by asking for three days' grace on the plea that the man owed money to the bank and that the interval would have been used for telegraphing to Peking. \n\nWhen a Hassack wants a loan the Governor makes him take it in tea bricks; now these he obtains from Hankow at the Government expense and sells for a high price. His Excellency is also said to give land rent-free and then when farmers have cultivated it, to take it from them again for his own use. \n\nThe Prefect also seems to act in an arbitrary way; he is preventing a quantity of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## October 25\nI was told that the Russian Consulate guard at the other Ili consisted of fifty men and one officer. Up to last year, there had been 250, but 200 had been recalled. Even during the Russo-Japanese war, the number remained unaltered. The Chentai has 300 men of the old pattern; they live in Suidun. There are a few shops in Suidun (within the town walls), but the area is mostly covered with yamêns and official buildings. It is in the commercial quarter that most people live. The streets are narrow and filthy, though this may have been partly due to the melted snow. The population is chiefly Turki.\n\n## October 25\nI spent the whole day in Hsincheng (\"New Town,\" New Kuldja, or Ilifu), driving thither in a Russian four-wheeled carriage. These vehicles have almost ousted the lumbering Chinese carts. Hsincheng lies some 5 miles to the south, and it took fifty minutes to drive there. The road is good for most part of the way and runs among trees and over rough uncultivated, uninhabited country. We met a fair amount of traffic, chiefly riders or these Russian carts. The latter act as omnibuses and charge 10 cents per head. They will hold as many as eight people.\n\nHsincheng is the residence of the Tartar General and the headquarters of the Government of the Ili district. As regards wealth of trees and abundance of water, the city is far superior to Peking, while the streets are broader and more evenly laid out. The town is surrounded by walls and entered by gates of the usual pattern. All the shops are inside the walls, and there was plenty of life in the streets. The Chinese shopkeepers told me trade was very good. The town is policed by a body of men eighty strong. They are dressed as the Peking police - neat black uniform, foreign military cap, and either big leather boots or the Chinese velvet boot; they carry batons. I was told they all live in a yamên to the north of the city - a kind of barracks; their pay 6 taels a-month. They looked a respectable and well-disciplined set of men. The Tartar General is trying to double the strength.\n\nI visited the telegraph office - a telegram to Peking costs 54 cents a word. Ten clerks live in this establishment; they are allowed to be married men; their wives live there, too. None speak English or Russian, and they said they had no Russian business. All the clerks seemed very stupid. They said it was impossible to send a telegram to England, but later on, they offered to accept one; it would go via Shanghae, and the cost would be 5 dol. 60 c. per word. I subsequently sent my telegram from Old Kuldja by the Russian wire, at the rate of 65 copecks per word.\n\nThe pay of these clerks is 12 taels a-month, all the expenses of the establishment being borne by the Government, including food and lighting.\n\nThere is no Government bank in the town, but the large Chinese shops will do bank work as regards transmitting money to Peking or Tien-tsin. There is no Chinese post-office; all correspondence has to go through the Russian post-office, and so to Peking via Siberia. It seems a great pity that there is no branch of the Imperial Chinese Post Office here; they would assuredly have plenty of work, and the cost of installing it along the Imperial highway would be met by the revenue derived from the large towns along it not already furnished with branches.\n\nThe official **Peking Gazette** reaches the telegraph office through the other telegraph offices, and the news contained in it trickles through a month late unless the matter is urgent.\n\nI subsequently visited the Chiangchün (Tartar General). He is a friendly old man of 66, though he looks a good deal older. Chang Gun is a Manchu with many years' service for the State. Sixteen years ago, he was Amban at Lhassa for one year; subsequently became Chiangchun here and, being succeeded by two others, returned to the same post a year ago. He is energetic and progressive and said to be honest; he is popular with the Chinese merchants, who all speak of him as 'extremely good.' This certainly proves that he is honest. He speaks no foreign language. We conversed chiefly about foreign railways.\n\nOn my way back to Suidun, I left Hsincheng by the west gate to visit the barracks of the Luchun. These are situated about half a mile from the town among trees and scrub; the building was formerly a temple and is surrounded by a high mud wall of the usual town wall type. The enclosure is some 200 yards square and entered by one gate (single entrance) facing the south. Inside the enclosure is the residence of the Major, and on either side of the courtyard and leading up to this are the soldiers' quarters. Several of the men were outside at work on the horizontal bars and other athletic arrangements. I visited the Major. He told me he had 270 men (one of the soldiers outside had told me 340, and I had already been informed 210 from several sources; this latter number is probably the correct one). They had been here a year. They belonged to Yuan Shih Kai's army and spoke proudly of the fact. The Major said that if it had not been the 1st October, a Chinese holiday, he would have paraded his men. I saw some forty of the men; all looked clean, bright, and healthy; there were no opium faces among them, a very different set of men to any of the so-called soldiers I had seen in the dependencies. The number was to be increased if possible by local recruiting. Punishment for desertion is swift and summary; one man recently ran away, was recaptured, and beheaded.\n\nOutside the gateway was leaning an old-fashioned Austrian rifle for one cartridge; it was fitted with a bayonet. The soldiers said they had new ones, magazine for five cartridges. They have no artillery, but the Major said there were some old-fashioned cannon in the yamên (probably only for saluting purposes).\n\nThe only other soldiers in Ili are all the inhabitants of Hsincheng (Sibo Solong) who receive pay from the Government as such but are only so-called soldiers; they are the old banner organisation and need not enter into any account.\n\nThe Russian Consul told me a few days later that the Chiangchun is very frightened of his troops (the Luchun), that he finds it difficult to provide their pay, that they mutiny if they do not receive this when due, and that one or two executions have already taken place.\n\n## October 26\nA merchant tells me that there are no Russian shops or traders in Suidun or Hsincheng; all are in Ningpuanhsien (Old Kuldja).\n\nWe left during the morning for Old Kuldja and, after traversing Hsincheng, turned eastward up the Ili Valley. The road rose very slightly to Tieliangsze at mile 14 from Hsincheng. This is the half-way stopping place for all traffic but it only consists of some eight Turki mud houses, four on either side of the road, rising phoenix-like from a larger collection of ruins. The population sell tea and cakes to passers-by and are in the happy position of paying no taxes. In the hills close by, the coal, excellent smokeless, which is used throughout the district, is mined. I was told that it did not belong to the Government but that anybody who liked could send and take it away. It is sold at an amazingly low price in the towns.\n\nDescending from the low hills, we were abreast at mile 17 of another of the 9 hsien cities which compose the Government of Ili, Baiandai, behind a long mud wall. No trees mark its position, and it is difficult to sight it among its dreary surroundings. Half-way between Baiandai and Ningyuanhsien, we passed Chuncheng, another hsien city, a small deserted town said to be haunted by the spirits of the Chinese massacred in the last rebellion thirty years ago. Reaching the outskirts of Ningyuen, another hsien city (Old Kuldja), we saw in the neat houses with glass windows signs of the existence of Russians. On reaching the gate of the city at mile 22, we did not enter but, turning to the left, skirted the walls, passed the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Russian post and telegraph office, and found our way through a labyrinth of dirty squalid streets to a poor inn. It had taken us six hours to perform the journey in a Russian carriage for the road is very indifferent. From Balandai onwards, the country was entirely covered with the ruins of the disastrous days of thirty years ago, which not even trees and rough grass could conceal. It was possible to have a coal fire in the inn although there was no chimney, the coal being absolutely smokeless.\n\n## October 27\nI called on the Taotai at 10 o'clock; he is an old man and it was too early for him; he is a Manchu called Ching. To-day is the Mahommedan New Year's Day, a three days' holiday; the streets were full of merry-makers and children dressed in the gayest of colours, were driving about in carts and carriages; everyone was exchanging greetings in the market place. Beggars, strolling minstrels, and singers were going their rounds from house to house, with a successful persistency which should encourage our Christmas waits. The most deserted-looking spot was the Taotai's yamên, forlorn, grass-grown, and empty, in striking contrast to the merry streets.\n\nI subsequently called at the Russian Consulate, which is situated in the labyrinth of tall trees, among which the various buildings for guard and interpreters are scattered in a confusing manner. The Consulate lies to the north of the town and away from the busy streets of the trading borough. The Bureau was closed in view of the Mahommedan holiday, and later I found the bank also closed. The Consul, Federoff, is a quiet, elderly, well-preserved man, with a quiet manner. The Chinese officials like him, and say he is a good man. He has only just come back from leave; he had retired, but having lost her only son at Vierny, where he lies buried, Madame Federoff has insisted on spending the rest of her life here. The Consul's health is bad, and this will tend to non-activity on his part.\n\nThe Russian post and telegraph office was open in spite of the holidays. No one speaks any European language there except Russian, nor indeed is Chinese spoken; fortunately, a Russian-speaking Chinese customer was able to act as interpreter.\n\nPage 178 \nPage 126 \nPage 127 \nPage 180 \nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 246 \n## C.O \n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** 681 \n\n## CHINA TRADE. \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n\n[27241] \nRee 10 AUG CO \n[July 19.] \n\n### SECTION 1. \n\n#### No. 1. \n**Acting Consul Rose to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received July 19.)** \n\n(No. 6.) Sir, \n\nTengyueh, June 9, 1909. \nI HAVE the honour to inclose duplicate of a Report, which I am forwarding to-day to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, containing an account of a recent journey in south-west Yunnan to ascertain the measures which have been taken to effect a decrease in the opium crops. \n\n### Inclosure in No. 1. \n\nI have, &c. \n**ARCHIBALD ROSE.** \n\n## Report of a Journey into the Opium Districts of South-West Yünnan, with an account of the Annual Fair at Talifu. \n\n### Object of Journey. \n\nON the 22nd April, 1909, I left Tengyueh to make a flying tour round the districts in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, the territory under the jurisdiction of the I-Hsi Tantai, which is estimated to produce 45 per cent. of the total opium crops of the Province of Yunnan. The routes taken by myself and two Chinese assistants are shown on the inset map, and pass through the tracts which in the past have proved most favourable to the growth of the poppy. \n\n### Routes. \n\nLeaving Tengyueh in a due easterly direction I followed the main road for three days, then branched off on to a bridle path leading south-east in the direction of Shunning Fu. Thence I turned north and reached Talifu by way of Meng-hua Ting, returning to my post through Yung-chang Fu. The consulate writer accompanied me as far as Shunning Fu, then proceeded to Yünchou and took a more easterly road to Talifu. The third route lay to the south of Tengyueh, through territory administered by the Shan Sawbwas.\n\n### Description of Country. \n\nThe track by which I travelled lay across a plateau from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, with frequent rises and falls, some of the passes being at an altitude of over 8,000 feet, whilst the Salwen Valley is but 2,200 feet above the sea. In dry weather the firm, sandy path made walking or riding very pleasant, but in the heavy rains, which overtook us on several days, the steep slopes were almost impassable, and we were obliged to struggle up and down in straw sandals, whilst the mules found great difficulty in keeping their feet and made slow progress. Our small party did double stages over practically the whole route, and it was therefore impossible to carry tents or heavy kit of any description. As a result, we were dependent for a rude shelter on the occasional mud huts by the way, and were often obliged to carry our own food and fodder. The nights are cold and inhospitable in these mountain regions, and, after a march from dawn till dark, there was a comfort in the wood fire built on the floor that made one forget the dirt, the crowding humanity, and the smoke that stung our unaccustomed eyes. The country is wonderfully beautiful, a succession of fir-clad uplands with great mountain ranges stretching beyond them; far below, the Shweli, the Salwen, and Mekong, the Red River...\n\n* Not reproduced. \n\nB \n[2363 t-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423314, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 717, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n715\n\n[September 27.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nIRE \n\n(R£! 25 OCT 09 \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 27.)\n\n**(No. 319.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, September 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report to you the following instance of somewhat high-handed action on the part of the Russian police at Harbin towards a British firm recently established there :--\n\nOn the 12th August a telegram was received through the American Legation from the American vice-consul at Harbin, Mr. Paddock, to the effect that the Russian police had, at the request of an Austrian subject and without any legal proceedings, taken possession of and sealed the storehouse of the British firm of Craig and Co.\n\nIn my absence from Peking, Mr. Max Müller telegraphed to the acting British consul-general at Mukden for further information, and, after visiting the Russian Legation, addressed the letter of which I have the honour to enclose a copy to the Russian Minister, who was also absent from Peking. I beg to transmit copies of two despatches from Mr. Willis which will put you in possession of the facts of the case as far as they were known to him, and will explain the action which he had taken; also a copy of the letter which Mr. Max Müller received from the Russian Legation in reply to his protest.\n\nI cannot say that the explanations contained in this letter can be considered quite satisfactory, but in view of Mr. Max Müller's formal protest and of the opinion expressed by Mr. Willis in his second despatch, I have thought it better to allow the matter to drop.\n\nThe American vice-consul at Harbin appears from a despatch which he addressed to the State Department on the subject to have taken a far more serious view of the incident than Mr. Willis. He reports that Craig's agent, Klementasky-who claims to be a British subject, though not registered at the consulate-general at Mukden-- wrote a letter to all the consular representatives at Harbin; and Mr. Paddock went so far as to ask the Japanese consul-general, in his capacity of doyen of the consular corps, to call a meeting of his colleagues to consider the question of taking official notice of the matter, but the Japanese consul-general thought that it would be best to await the result of the representations made by the British authorities.\n\nI do not, however, attach so much importance to Mr. Paddock's report as I should have had I not known that gentleman personally in Corea. He was excitable and not very dependable, and he is, I am told, an anti-Russian at Harbin as he was anti-Japanese in Corea, and would no doubt like to urge us forward to take the initiative in the vexed question of the Russian administrative rights in Harbin.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a copy of yet a further despatch from the acting British consul-general at Mukden dealing with a question arising out of this incident, namely, whether it would not be advisable in the event of British firms establishing themselves in railway territory to inform the Russian consulate-general. I have replied to Mr. Willis that, provided it is understood that our action is purely for convenience' sake, and does not imply any recognition on our part of the Russian view of their own rights, there would be no objection to his making such a notification to the Russian consul-general at Harbin.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nM. le Ministre,\n\nInclosure I in No. 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Russian Minister.\n\n[Undated.]\n\nI HAVE received indirect information that the Russian police at Harbin have, at the request of an Austrian subject and without any legal proceedings, taken possession of and sealed the storehouse of the British firm of Craig and Co, in that town.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 772, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n## Joint Communication addressed to Consul-General Fulford\n\nTien-tsin, August 11, 1909.\n\nWE, the undersigned British firms, venture to call your attention to our claims against Chinese firms and the apparent impossibility of making any headway with these claims in the Chinese court. Correspondence between your consulate, the Customs taotai, and the Shen P'an Ting has been endless, and we take this opportunity of thanking you for the forcible way in which you have brought our claims to the notice of the Chinese authorities, but as far as any practical result is concerned, we fear that our claims are no nearer settlement than when they were first handed to the Chinese authorities. This is entirely due, in our opinion, to procrastination on the part of the Chinese authorities, who are not making any serious attempt to bring pressure to bear on the defaulting native firms.\n\nIn all our dealings with these firms, we have rigidly carried out our contracts, and perhaps it would be as well to remind the Chinese that these contracts are mutual and involve obligations on their part as well as on ours. In making importations on behalf of the Chinese, we undertake serious responsibilities, and these responsibilities are no less binding on us because the Chinese wish to evade their part of the contract. Moreover, they are fully aware that in making contracts with us, they have the protection of the English law to ensure that we shall act up to our obligations, and all we ask now is similar protection from the Chinese legal authorities.\n\nWhen a foreign firm fails, unless some arrangements are made with the full consent of all the creditors, that firm becomes bankrupt and its assets are realised and distributed proportionately amongst the creditors. There are instances of this actually occurring in Tien-tsin at the present time, and as there appears to be no proper Chinese law of bankruptcy, we think we have the right to insist that Chinese firms against which we have claims should be dealt with in the same way as we should have been if we had failed to carry out our contracts with them. In this connection, it may be as well to enumerate article 7 of the Anglo-Chinese treaty of 1858:\n\n| Article 7 of the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of 1858 |\n| --- |\n| \"A British subject having reason to complain of a Chinese must proceed to the consulate and state his grievance. The consul will enquire into the merits of his case, and do his utmost to arrange it amicably. In like manner, if a Chinese has reason to complain of a British subject, the consul shall no less listen to his complaint, and endeavour to settle it in a friendly manner. If disputes take place of such a nature that the consul cannot arrange them amicably, then he shall request the assistance of the Chinese authorities, that they may together examine into the merits of the case, and decide it equitably.\" |\n\nTo a certain extent, this procedure has been adopted in cases which have been tried by the Shen P'an Ting, but, as we have said before, without any practical result. We need not dwell upon the various cases which have been tried by the Chinese judicial authorities, nor need we refer to the delays and postponements that have occurred, and even when judgment has been obtained, the failure to give effect to that judgment. Suffice it to say that we have tried to get justice and failed.\n\nWe now ask that the matter be referred to a higher authority. The Customs Taotai has proved himself incompetent or at any rate unable to deal with the situation. The Shen Pan Ting, with the native Chamber of Commerce acting as its guide, philosopher, and friend, has been worse than useless. We therefore suggest that the whole question be taken without further delay to the Viceroy, and we would like it to be made clear that we do not ask for any favours or preferential treatment---but simple justice. We maintain that if a Chinese firm has failed (and all those against which we have claims are in this position), that firm should be declared bankrupt, and its assets distributed proportionately amongst the creditors. The Chinese can insist on this being done---if they wish to---and we request that you will approach the Viceroy and ask him to give instructions to this effect.\n\nIf no satisfaction is obtained from the Viceroy within a reasonable time, we further request that the question be referred to a still higher sphere, viz., His Britannic Majesty's Minister in Peking, and that he be requested to insist that the Wai-wu Pu does something for the protection of our interests in terms of the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of 1858, a clause of which we have already quoted.\n\nIn conclusion, we would like to refer to the recently-instituted committee known as the relief commission. We understand that this commission is being fostered by German firms and backed by French and Japanese firms with the object of raising money to enable Chinese firms to tide over their difficulties, and incidentally to discharge their obligations to the aforesaid foreign firms. The object at first sight seems a laudable one, but we believe it is a fact that the better-class Chinese firms have not asked for and do not require relief. The native firms, which hope to benefit by this relief commission, are without exception firms of no standing whatever, whose business has only been possible by means of the credit system of dealing with foreign firms, which, owing to its abuse, has been made such a curse to the trade of this port.\n\nThe more we hear of this relief commission, the more clear it becomes that the primary object of its existence is to give relief to those foreign firms which have so largely overtraded with the Chinese, and in consequence now find themselves in difficulties.\n\nWe therefore wish to dissociate ourselves entirely from this relief commission and to request that it is in no way allowed to interfere with the prompt settlement of our claims against Chinese firms. If necessary, protests should be made to the German, French, and Japanese Ministers against the course of justice being delayed by this relief commission. If the commission thinks it is to the interests of trade to keep alive these bankrupt native firms, they should first buy out the British firms, and as we understand that the total British claims are not likely to exceed 250,000 taels approximately out of an estimated total among all foreign firms of 14,000,000 taels, there should be no difficulty, if the relief commission is worth anything at all, in raising such a comparatively small sum as would satisfy the British creditors.\n\nThe business morality of the Chinese until recently has been of a high standard, and we think it is a pity that they should lose their character for integrity and honesty for the sake of a few worthless Chinese firms which have been trading dishonestly on the credit obtained from foreign firms. In our opinion, it is not to the interests of the Chinese import trade to bolster up these rotten native firms; better that they should be weeded out, and clear the way for a good honest trade, which we may naturally assume will spring up as soon as the present crisis has been faced and a settlement effected, but not until then.\n\nThanking you to give our views your usual careful consideration, we are, &c.\n\n**Signed**\n\nWILLIAM FORBES AND Co. \nCOLLINS AND Co. \nMACKENZIE AND CO. (Limited). \nF. R. SCOTT, Manager. (Per pro. Perrin, Cooper, and Co.), \nW. H. WAMSLEY,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423484, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Willis to Mr. Koike\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nMukden, August 28, 1909. WITH reference to our conversation of yesterday morning, I have the honour to inform you that I issued a warrant for the arrest of the man Birkett on the charge of obtaining credit under false pretences, and took charge of him yesterday afternoon at the South Manchurian railway-station.\n\nOn a preliminary hearing of the case this morning Birkett stated that if he were given time to communicate with his friends he would repay the amount due to the Yamato Hotel, and accordingly with the consent of the prosecutor I adjourned the case for ten days.\n\nI would take this opportunity to thank you for your courtesy in sending me Mr. Aoki to act as interpreter.\n\nThere is, however, another aspect of the case to which I feel constrained to draw your attention.\n\nBirkett alleges that he was seized by some of the Yamato Hotel people about 1:30 P.M. on the afternoon of the 26th instant, and taken to the South Manchurian railway settlement police station at Changchun, where the police, after hearing the evidence of the hotel manager, detained him until 8 A.M. the next morning, when he was escorted by the police to the railway-station, and sent down to Mukden if not actually under arrest at least under strict police supervision.\n\nTo this action of the railway police I consider it my duty to take exception. In the absence of a British consular officer at Changchun, I maintain that the correct course of action would have been for the Japanese police to have handed the man over to the Chinese authorities, who might have been asked to detain him until the views of the nearest British authority, in this case myself, could be ascertained.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\nreferred the matter to the Japanese consul there, asking him to supply me with the details of the case, and as soon as I am in receipt of a reply from him I shall have the pleasure of further communicating with you.\n\n## Mr. Koike to Acting Consul-General Willis\n\nConsulate-General of Japan, Mukden, Dear Mr. Willis,\n\nSeptember 3, 1909. THE Yamato Hotel people have just communicated to me that they have no intention of prosecuting the man Birkett who swindled the hotel.\n\nWith regard to my official note to you in reference to the observations you made on the action of the Japanese police, I have received a communication from the Japanese consul at Changchun saying that it was the intention of the police to give Birkett a special treatment. As the man stated that he was a British subject, the police took the exceptional course of accommodating him with a sleeping-room with dinners and drinks catered from the hotel. It was simply from the courteous thoughtfulness of the police that he was not delivered to the Chinese authorities.\n\nI hope the above explanation is satisfactory to you, and let us drop the case at this point if you agree.\n\nI am off to Tairen this evening.\n\nYours sincerely,\nCHOZO KOIKE.\n\n# Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan\n\n(No. 41.) Sir,\n\nMukden, September 4, 1909. IN continuation of my despatch No. 38 of the 28th ultimo, with reference to the arrest of Birkett, a British subject, by the South Manchurian police at Changchun, I have the honour to enclose copies of further correspondence that has taken place between my Japanese colleague and myself.\n\nMr. Koike, in his private letter of the 3rd instant, explains that the man was \"accorded exceptional treatment owing to the courteous thoughtfulness of the Japanese police, who wished to save him from the discomfort of a Chinese gaol.\n\nUnder the circumstances I saw no alternative but to accept Mr. Koike's explanation and to let the matter drop. It seems clear that the Japanese authorities have no wish at present to maintain their sole right of administration in the railway area as against third parties.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Willis to Mr. Koike\n\nMukden, September 4, 1909.\n\nDear Mr. Koike,\n\nMANY thanks for your letter of yesterday's date. I hope that the three months' imprisonment Mr. Wilkinson has given the man Birkett will cure him of his habit of swindling hotelkeepers. I have just heard that he has also let in the Grand Hotel at Harbin.\n\nI quite agree that the case may be now allowed to drop. I can only regret that the settlement police at Changchun showed so much consideration to so unworthy a subject.\n\nYours sincerely,\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\n# Inclosure 4 in No. 1 (previously Inclosure 5 in No. 1, now correctly ordered as per content)\n\n## Mr. Koike to Acting Consul-General Willis\n\nConsulate-General of Japan, Mukden, August 30, 1909.\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th instant, concerning the case of a British subject, Birkett, who left the Yamato Hotel, Changchun, without settling his account. As to your observations regarding the action of the police at Changchun, as stated in the latter part of your note, I have...\n\nPage 87", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "36\n\nA great deal of opium smoking is prevalent in Shansi owing to the way the people have of consuming large quantities of half-cooked food.\n\nEnquiries as to the popular sentiment with regard to the anti-opium measures generally elicited the reply that the people were on the whole glad that they were being obliged to give up the habit; they could not help realising its pernicious effects, but lacked the moral courage to abandon the drug of their own initiative. There is, however, a section of the community, chiefly of the student class and gentry, who are rather inclined to regard the action of the State as an unnecessary interference with the liberty of the individual, and would prefer to be left in peace to the enjoyment of their pipe.\n\nThe enormous increase in the marketable value of opium in Shansi has had the effect of widening the area under cultivation in the adjoining province, and a missionary, writing from Meihsien on the Wei River, in Shensi, states that the poppy is now grown to such an extent in the Wei Valley that the farmers have actually had to import wheat for their own consumption from other parts of the province—a very unusual state of affairs. It is believed that the prohibition will be extended to Shensi in 1910, so the people are making the most of their opportunities.\n\nIn Honan, less opium has been grown this year than last, especially near the main roads, and none was visible from the railway, but I am told that a considerable amount is still being cultivated in various parts of the province.\n\nThe energetic action that has been taken in Shansi is worthy of the highest praise, and it only remains to be seen whether the results are to be permanent or not. The regulations governing the election of representatives in the new scheme of constitutional government expressly exclude all opium smokers from holding office, so it is to be hoped that a safeguard against any reintroduction of the poppy will be afforded by the presence of a body of men in the councils of the capital whose desire for the welfare of the province is unhampered by considerations of a personal nature.\n\nIn conclusion, I would like to express my gratitude to the Protestant missionaries of Shansi, from whom I always received the greatest hospitality and assistance, and to whom I am indebted for much of the information contained in this report.\n\nJ. F. BRENAN.\n\nPeking, June 26, 1903.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n### Report of a Journey into the Opium Districts of South-West Yunnan, with an Account of the Annual Fair at Tali-fu\n\n#### Object of Journey\n\nOn the 22nd April, 1909, I left Tengyueh to make a flying tour round the districts in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, the territory under the jurisdiction of the Hsi Taotai, which is estimated to produce 45 per cent of the total opium crops of the province of Yunnan. The routes taken by myself and two Chinese assistants passed through the tracts which in the past have proved most favourable to the growth of the poppy.\n\n#### Routes\n\nLeaving Tengyueh in a due easterly direction, I followed the main road for three days, then branched off on to a bridle path leading south-east in the direction of Shunning-fu; thence I turned north and reached Tali-fu by way of Meng-hua Ting, returning to my post through Yung-chang-fu. The consulate writer accompanied me as far as Shunning-fu, then proceeded to Yunchou, and took a more easterly road to Tali-fu. The third route lay to the south of Tengyueh, through territory administered by the Shan sawbwas.\n\n#### Description of Country\n\nThe track by which I travelled lay across a plateau from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, with frequent rises and falls, some of the passes being at an altitude of over 8,000 feet, whilst the Salwen Valley is but 2,200 feet above the sea. In dry weather, the firm, sandy path made walking or riding very pleasant, but in the heavy rains which overtook us on several days, the steep slopes were almost impassable, and we were obliged to struggle up and down in straw sandals, whilst the rules found great difficulty in keeping their feet, and made slow progress. Our small party did double stages over practically the whole route, and it was therefore impossible to carry tents or heavy kit of any description. As a result, we were dependent for a rude welcome on the occasional mud huts by the way, and were often obliged to carry our own food and fodder. The nights are cold and inhospitable in these mountain regions, and, after a march from dawn till dark, there was a comfort in the wood fire built on the floor that made one forget the dirt, the crowding humanity, and the smoke that stung our unaccustomed eyes.\n\nThe country is wonderfully beautiful: a succession of fir-clad uplands with great mountain ranges stretching beyond them, far below the Shweli, the Salwen, and Mekong, the Red River, the Hsia-kuan River, and the Yangpi that go whirling through their deep beds, one flanked by tropical jungle, the next by steep rocky gorges, whilst the Hsia-kuan can be seen for miles winding between grassy slopes, a white and foaming torrent descending 1,600 feet over rocks and boulders, in one day's march. The tropical sun is tempered by the mountain breezes, and the country was full of familiar northern flowers growing in vigorous profusion; the hillsides were bright with rhododendrons, red and white, with azaleas of many colours and long sprays of clematis, whilst roses and meadow-sweet grew in luxuriance in the sheltered valleys.\n\nThe country is unlike the east and south and north of China in that its mountains are covered with forests and its streams run clear over their rocky beds, whilst for days at a stretch there is little sign of human habitation, save in the well-cultivated and populous valleys. Such people as we met between the towns were, however, friendly and willingly offered their rough hospitality; their faces, their homes, and the unbound feet of their women mark the people as tribesmen with a slight mingling of Chinese blood. In the Menghua district and along the northern route, many of them are of pure Lolo race, though the handsome, clean-cut faces of the Szechuanese Lolos are seldom seen. All, however, who have the slightest tinge of Chinese blood claim to belong to the \"family of Hau,\" and there is little wonder that they cling to the traditions and name which represent, on the one hand, all power and wealth whilst treating with a relentless contempt the \"barbarian\" of the hills.\n\n### Opium\n\n#### Opium Centres\n\nIn dealing with the production of opium, this circuit may be divided into two distinct spheres, the first comprising the districts under the direct control of the Chinese territorial officials, the second consisting of the frontier regions under the rule of the Shan sawbwas, including the fertile, low-lying valleys, and the Kachin Hills, for which the sawbwas are nominally responsible. It was generally admitted that the Shan valleys were still under opium crops this season, and I therefore decided to send a Chinese assistant to get any possible information in this direction, whilst proceeding myself to the east of the circuit where the Taotai claimed that the preventive work had been successfully carried out. My route was chosen through the greatest producing areas of the district and timed just before the opium harvest.\n\n#### Destruction of Opium Crops in Chinese Sphere\n\nSpeaking generally, the work of prevention inaugurated by His Excellency Hsi Liang, governor-general at Yunnan-fu, has been carried out in the Chinese sphere with vigour and success. It was naturally impossible to penetrate into the remoter regions during the short period at my disposal, but, by careful enquiry and by watching the local markets for the drug, it has been possible to gain a fair estimate of the conditions of the present season. From the high passes of these districts, one can obtain a broad view of the surrounding country, and the unmistakable colour of the poppy crops may be detected from a considerable distance when they exist to any extent. In the course of my journey, however, I did not see a single field of poppy, and the only evidence of cultivation was in the straggling flowers, which were freely scattered over the fields and were evidently the few survivors after the crops had been uprooted by order of the officials.\n\nThe consulate writer reports similar conditions in the country lying between Yunchou and Menghua Ting. I have also reliable information from Mr. Coggin Brown, of the Geological Survey of India, and from other English sources, that, in the country to the north-west and north-east of Tali-fu (under the jurisdiction of the sub-prefects of Yunlung Chou and Pinchuan Chou), the main crops have been vigorously destroyed, though a little cultivation is reported in the remoter districts, which are difficult of access for the preventive officers.\n\n#### Local Riots\n\nDuring December and the early part of this year, the prefects and junior officers of the circuit were constantly under orders from the Viceroy, first to exhort the people to devote their land to other crops, then to destroy the crops if their earlier orders had been disobeyed. In many cases, the latter course was necessary.\n\n[2494 p-1] \n241 \nC \n37 \nL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425989, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "357\n\nMinutes of Meeting to discuss the question of the Joint Working\n\nof the British and Chinese Sections of the Kowloon–\n\nCanton Railway, held in the Council Chamber at Hongkong on the 5th\n\nJuly, 1910.\n\n0\n\n24393\n\nRace 8 AUG 10\n\nPresent:\n\nMr. Wei Fan, Mr. Ewo Fung-i, Mr. B. S. Lindsay\n\nand Mr. C. Clementi.\n\nMr. Wei Han informed us that, as arranged at\n\nour meeting on the 7th ultimo, he had telegraphed the proposals made by us to the Board of Communications at Peking; that the Board had replied objecting to joint management and\n\nhad instructed him to press for separate management and running powers, i.e. that passengers and goods should through run\n\nfrom one section to the other in the same carriages, the engines only being changed, and that each section should pay the other a fixed price per mile for running over the other's line. We asked\n\nMr. Wei what were the objections of the Board to joint management. He replied that they had given no reasons, but had\n\ninstructed him that he must only negotiate on the lines of separate management; that, speaking for himself, he fully recognized that joint management was the best and most businesslike method and would be advantageous to both sections, but he\n\nthought that the Board's objection was really political and due\n\nto the distrust of the foreigner now rife in China.\n\nWe replied that we were unable to enter into\n\nany discussion of separate management, and pointed out that,\n\nat a meeting held in the British Consulate-General in Canton on\n\nthe 18th December, 1905, at which Mr. C. H. Ross, representing the British and Chinese Corporation, Taotai Wen T'ung-yao, the Viceroy's Foreign Secretary, and Vice-Consul Tebbitt were\n\npresent, the \"Memorandum re Proposed Agreement between the\n\nGovernment of Hongkong and the Chinese Government for the\n\nworking...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "20\n\n\"The council approved of the survey scheme, and also of the proposal of the intendant of commerce that unowned and public woods should be first surveyed. The method of survey was left to be discussed on the second and third readings.\n\n\"The president sounded his bell, and there was an interval of twenty minutes. \"After reassembling the council discussed its temporary rules :——\n\n\"The president read out the rules as amended by the Viceroy, and enquired whether the Council had any objections to raise. He also read out the rules as he proposed to amend them and discussed them with the council.\n\n\"Prefect Yany explained why the Viceroy had made changes in the rules, and said that there was no need for the council to become suspicious. He then entered into a long and earnest discussion with the president.\n\nIt being now 5:40 the president sounded his bell and the council dispersed.\" \n\nFUKIEN.\n\nThe account below of the opening of the Fukien assembly is taken from an English newspaper published at Foochow The specimen debate and plan of the Chamber* have been furnished by Mr. Playfair, His Majesty's consul.\n\n\"The Opening of the Fukien Provincial Parliament.\n\nOpening Ceremony.\" Thursday, the 14th October, was the day set for the opening of the Parliaments in the various provinces of China.\n\n\"In Foochow the Parliament is sitting in a building which was part of the old examination hall in the north part of the city. This building has been fitted up to accommodate the Parliament until the more permanent structure is erected. The room in which the business is transacted is about 60 feet wide by 120 feet long. At the farther end as one enters are the seats for the Viceroy in the middle, for the treasurer, judge, and commissioner of education at the Viceroy's left, as he sits, and for the Tartar general and the salt commissioner on the Viceroy's right. Lower are seats for other officials.\n\n\"In front of these seats and in the centre of the room is the table, about which sit or stand the six secretaries or clerks.\n\n\"Before this table, arranged in circular form, are seated the members of the Parliament. By this arrangement the Fukien provincial officials and the members of Parliament sit facing each other, with the six secretaries between them.\n\n\"By the courtesy of the Parliament the writer received an announcement of It was 4 P.M. when he arrived. Two the opening with two tickets of admission. ushers met, as at the door and invited us to come into the visitors' gallery, which is at the opposite end from the seats for the provincial officials and facing them. The Viceroy and other officials mentioned above looked rather lonely, but as our eyes followed down the room past the secretaries table the aspect changed, for here were seated in a compact body seventy-three members out of seventy-five of Parliament. They wore the regulation official hat with the red tassel and the long official robe. Their backs were of course toward us, and it was with difficulty that we recognised those whom we knew as they rose or turned in their seats.\n\n\"The room is well lighted with glass in the roof, and is tastefully arranged. As we look up on the right wall we see the Chinese characters for 'China,' and opposite Until very recently the them on the other wall are the characters for 'Long Live.' \n\n'Emperor' was put in place of 'China.' But the people are now saying, 'Long Live China' instead of Long Live the Emperor.'\n\n\"The business of the day was organisation. The president or speaker is a Mr. Kau, from the Yeng Bing prefecture from the city Sung Chiong. He is 44 years old. There are two vice-presidents, one a Mr. Lau, from Foochow, and a Mr. Chen, from Chiang Chiu, near Amoy. Fifteen men were elected as the executive of the Parliament, who are to be in the building daily.\n\n\"The voting was done by ballot. The secretaries distributed envelopes to the members into which each member could put his vote, these were afterwards collected, counted, and the results read by one of the secretaries and also written on a small blackboard and hung up.\n\n\"Several members on being elected to the executive forthwith resigned. Otherwise all was conducted with dignity and grace. Great possibilities for usefulness\n\n*Not reproduced.\n\n21\n\nlie within the powers of this body of men. Ten years ago we had not even thought of the possibility of a constitutional Government for China. To-day the machinery is at work.\n\n\"This marks an epochal day in the history of China.' Specimen of Debate.\" Sample of debate on the establishment of schools.\n\n\"Mr. Lin Lu-ts'un: May I ask why Hsing-Hua-Fu and Chuan-chou Fu have not been included in the list of groups of towns?\n\n\"The Treasurer: These two names have been accidentally omitted and shall be added in future lists.\n\n“Mr. Lien Hsien-chi: I approve of the method of arranging town in groups; but should like to be informed whether the allocation of funds will be arranged on the same system as that applied in the case of the Government High School at Foochow.\n\n\"The Treasurer: After the regulations have been deliberated and fixed, the necessary expenditure will be estimated.\n\n\"Mr. Lien Hsien-cha: I think the estimate of expenditure should be made first. \"The Treasurer: The funds available do not exceed 50,000 dollars, which is insufficient; therefore, a new estimate must be drawn up. But the regulations must precede it.\n\n\"Mr. Lin Lu-ts'un: I propose that towns be grouped on the basis of dialects. A centre should be established at Amoy to comprise the islands in the south of the province. Thence the grouping may be extended to the various prefectures.\n\n\"The President; This proposal must be first examined and reported on by the inspectors appointed for the purpose. To this all the members gave their approval.\n\nViceroy's Message.\" This is in accordance with the regulations for the high schools promulgated in the first year of the present reign. It was provided that high schools should be established at Peking and in the various provinces. Primary schools should be started in prefectures, departments, towns, and villages. The establishment of high schools in such prefectures as do not yet possess them will be effected by the end of the year. The high school is a step above the primary school which acts as a feeder. A high school has recently been established at Foochow. At Yen-ping Fu the question of establishing a high school is under consideration by the people. High schools have been established at Chich-uing Fu, at Shao-wa Fu, at Ting-chou Fu, at Hsing-hua Fu, at Ch'uan-chou Fu, and at Yung-ch'un Chou but without much success. The high school established at Lung-yen Chou has already come to an untimely end, while that at Fu-ning Fu is not yet in working order. Such is the present state of affairs as regards the high schools. Primary schools have to be provided in two departments and in fifty-eight districts; so many in large districts; so many in small.\n\n\"In the matter of the proposed local Government Boards, the arrangements are not yet completed; the areas of the different sections have not been defined; the number of inhabitants to each section has not been reckoned; nor have the villages and towns been properly grouped. The establishment of primary schools and the allocation of funds for their up-keep is the problem before us and it is difficult. High schools are the issue of primary schools. Both together are the basis of our education scheme and with care and wisdom must the foundation be laid.\" \n\nKWANGTUNG.\n\nThe following extract is quoted from a memorandum by Mr. Lancelot Giles, of His Majesty's consulate-general at Canton :--\n\nElections.\" On the 17th July, 1909, the first ballot was held in the Yamens of the various district and department magistrates and sub-prefects. The method adopted was that any person who fell into one or other of the categories of those eligible for election circulated among the voters pamphlets expressing his desire for election. Only persons securing a vote were qualified to be voted for on the second ballot, held on the 24th August, 1909.\n\n\"The names of those who received votes at the first ballot were placarded at the Yamens of the prefects, sub-prefects, and magistrates, where the second ballot was held. Before a given date those who wished to accept their nomination had to signify their assent, otherwise they were disqualified.\n\nSecond Elections and Distribution of Seats.-\"At the second ballot ninety-four\n\nQ [2605 7--2]\n\n153", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nof their refusal to pay the municipal taxes demanded by the local town council at Harbin.\n\nI also beg to submit copy of my reply to the firm's letter.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Messrs. Craig and Co.\n\nMukden, December 4, 1909.\n\nI BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, in which you inform me that you have refused payment of the sum of 200 roubles demanded from you by the town council of Harbin as \"taxes for 1909.\"\n\nUnder present conditions it appears to me that neither the town council nor any other local authority has the right to collect municipal taxes or other taxes from British subjects at Harbin, and pending the conclusion of an agreement granting such rights I intend to support British subjects in their refusal to submit to any local taxation whatever.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Macgregor to Acting Consul-General Willis.\n\nDear Mr. Willis.\n\nHarbin, December 3, 1909. I HAVE had an interview with the railway authorities to-day, and have arranged to see General Horwath on Monday afternoon, the 6th instant, to finally settle the matter of renting spaces at Harbin, Kuanchengtzu, Ta-la-chao, Shuangchenpu, Tung-shi-shan, and Wei-shar-tzu, for storing beans, &c., and the erection of temporary godowns.\n\nI enclose copies of rough translations I have been able to obtain, through the courtesy of the American consul, of the proposed form of lease and also of the note I should be of promise which requires the knowledge and consent of our consul. very much obliged if you would be good enough to telegraph on receipt whether you are willing to countersign the note of promise. The authorities inform me that, unless We ourselves your signature is obtained to the latter, they cannot grant the leases. are perfectly willing to accept the conditions, and our business operations here will, I fear, be much restricted if we are unable to rent the various spaces offered to us on these conditions.\n\nThe term of lease for the space at Harbin is for ten years and for the stations one year, and the rent is reasonable.\n\nApologising for troubling you, I am, &c.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMessrs. Craig and Co. to Acting Consul-General Willis.\n\nHarbin, December 1, 1909. THE town council of Harbin have to-day demanded payment from us of 200 roubles as \"taxes for 1909,\" to be paid within nine days.\n\nAs we understand the consular body have not yet arrived at any decision regarding taxation of foreigners in this town, we have refused payment.\n\nWe shall be glad to hear from you on the matter.\n\n(No. 62.) Sir,\n\nWe are, &c. Craig and Co. (Limited),\n\nN. RAMSAY, Director.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, December 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose copy of a letter I have received from Mr. D. Macgregor, of Messrs. Samuel Macgregor and Co., in which he informs me that the Chinese Eastern Railway authorities will not grant him leases of land at Harbin and other points on the Chinese Eastern Railway unless such leases are countersigned by myself.\n\nMr. Macgregor states that personally he is willing to accept the Russian conditions, and that his business operations will be restricted unless he is able to obtain the land offered to him\n\nI also enclose in translation copies of the proposed form of lease or note of promise, which Mr. Macgregor obtained through the courtesy of the American consulate at Harbin.\n\nI telegraphed to Mr. Macgregor this morning to the effect that under present conditions I was unable to countersign the documents as requested.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\nDate\n\nDOUGLAS MACGREGOR.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nNotes of Promise.\n\n(1.)\n\nWE the undersigned hereby give note of promise to the administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway as follows:\n\n1. We rented from the administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway a lot of land which belongs to the railway mentioned, which measures and marked on the square sarj., which is located at station plan of the station mentioned, and which is attached to this note of promise, for building warehouses for grain products and living quarters on the following conditions:-\n\nto , ie., from per year,\n\n2. The term of the lease of the lot is for \n\n3. The rent is per square sarj., and the whole lot which sum shall be paid on signing this note of promise.\n\n4. On the land mentioned is given the right to build warehouses for grain products and the necessary living quarters according to the confirmed project of the administration of the railway: other buildings besides those mentioned above we have no right to build without the permission of the administration of the railway. After the expiration of the date of the lease all the erected houses we are obliged to move within a month's time, otherwise all the houses will be the property of the administration and under its disposal.\n\n5. We, have no right to give over the lot that is rented by us to another person without the written permission of the administration of the railway.\n\n6. We, have no right to prevent the laying through this rented lot of railway water and canalisation pipes, and also to hang on poles electrical wires.\n\n7. We, are obliged to submit\n\nFor foreigners the attached special note of promise will be used instead of this article 7.\n\n5. In case of non-fulfilment by us, of one of these articles of the note of promise, the lease agreement will lose its strength, and the lot that is rented\n\nB 2 [2605 1-3]\n\n189", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n79\n\nC\n\n[B]\n\nBritish subjects affected would, excluding residents who will be registered, be mainly, if not entirely, of two classes, namely, those arriving from treaty ports in China visiting or intending to travel in Manchuria, and travellers by the South Manchurian Railway. The former should all, if resident a month in any treaty port, have registration certificates and the latter passports—in cases registration certificates as well. The simplest course, then, would seem to be that a list of registered British subjects should be given to the Russian consul-general and that, as regards temporary sojourners, the police, if suspicious of them and in doubt as to their nationality, should refer to the consul-general, who could apply to this consulate for information on the point. It would, of course, be clearly understood that the police, as you informed M. Korostovetz, could in no case claim the right to examine the passports of British subjects, and any arrangement should, I think, be informal without prejudice to our exterritorial rights and any subsequent agreement regarding the status and municipal administration of Harbin.\n\nIn suggesting that the Russian consul-general might be furnished with a list of British subjects, I have had in mind that he would in any case always have the right to enquire whether such and such a person were a British subject, and that in most of the treaty ports—and Harbin will be among them—the jury list exhibited in a conspicuous place in the court contains the names of the majority of the male British residents. I ought, perhaps, to mention that M. Klementaski, who is often in charge of Messrs. Craig and Co. and is generally thought to be a British subject, is not so in fact, and his name would therefore be missing from any list supplied.\n\nMy German colleague tells me that his nationals, who are not compelled to register at ordinary treaty ports, desire to do so here and to have their names communicated to the police. \"I told him that I thought that any information which it might be considered advisable to give should go through the Russian consul-general, and I rather gathered that he agreed with this. Dr. Heintze expressed the opinion that it was the interest of us all to facilitate the police as far as one properly could on the ground that bad characters would be deterred from coming to Harbin if satisfied that they would not be able to escape observation, whatever their nationality.\n\nThe American consul has not been approached. While he would not, I think, be unwilling to answer an enquiry, I doubt if he would be prepared to recommend the furnishing of a list. At present, he has only two nationals, both employés of the Customs.\n\nShould you see no objection to the proposal to give a list of British subjects, the addition of their addresses might be allowed and would deprive the police of all excuse for wrongful entry.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nH. E. SLY.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[15027]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n15575\n\n[May 2.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nRece REG 23 MAY 10\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received May 2.)\n\n(No. 93. Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nSOME excitement was created here yesterday by an announcement in Reuter's Tokyo, April 15, 1910. telegram service, to the effect that you had stated in the House of Commons in reply to Mr. Arbuthnot that the concession for the financing and construction of the Kinchow-Aigun Railway had been signed and granted to American and British firms.\n\nAs it was Count Komura's reception day, I took the opportunity of asking his Excellency whether he had any news from Peking in confirmation of the above telegram. Count Komura replied that he had seen Reuter's telegram which had caused him some surprise, for he had had no news from Peking respecting the Chinchow-Aigun Railway for some weeks. Government were pressing very hard in Peking for the signature of the concession, He was aware that the American but he did not think it was actually signed, and he thought that you were, in the House of Commons, possibly alluding to the preliminary agreement signed some months ago. Only that morning he had heard from Mr. Kato by despatch that you had informed him that the American Government were trying to come to some arrangement with the Russian Government regarding the railway; the Japanese position remained the same. They were quite willing not to oppose the construction of the railway provided they were allowed to participate in the same; as I was aware, the terms of participation had been communicated to the Chinese Government, but to the present the Wai-wu Pu had not vouchsafed a reply.\n\nIn the ante-room I had a few minutes conversation with the Russian Ambassador, who was waiting his turn to interview the Secretary of State; in reply to my query M. Malevsky said that he had come on purpose to inquire regarding the telegram published by Reuter that morning; if the statement was true it would of course be a very serious matter. I told him that Count Komura had just told me that he had had no news from Peking and was inclined to think that the statement referred to the preliminary treaty signed some time ago at Mukden. M. Malevsky then said: \"Do you think these Japanese are not playing a double game, and are all this time negotiating with the Americans.\" To this somewhat naïve question I replied that during my nine years experience of the Japanese Government I had never known them to play a double game, indeed had found them, for a Government, exceedingly straightforward and honest. I might have added with great truth that my five years experience at Peking would certainly preclude my giving the Russian Government an equally good character. I said that in my opinion Reuter had probably not stated the case correctly; if the final agreement had been signed, which was of course possible, we should soon hear of it. M. Malevsky agreed with my estimate of the Japanese Government so far as his short experience went, and added a high tribute to the frankness and straightforwardness of the present Foreign Minister, Count Komura.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nCLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\n[2761 6-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "attended out of 3,000. The taotai again repeated that I might calm my fears as no trouble would ensue.\n\nOn the 13th April I sent for and warned Mr. Gregory, of the Polytechnic, who assured me that the students, if silent, appeared peaceful.\n\nThe same evening at 7:15 P.M. a telephone message came from the governor to the consulate asking me to request Commandant Yang, of the river guard-boats, to send reinforcements to the South Gate as there was a serious disturbance just outside the city.\n\nAt 7:30 this warning was repeated and, as I was dining on board the steam-ship Siangtan, I requested Commandant Yang to keep a man at our telephone. I went right through the city within fifty yards of the governor's yamên and right past the door of the taotai's yamên where there was a big crowd assembled. No notice was taken of me except one man, on seeing my chair pass, called out \"The British consul,\" and laughed heartily.\n\nAt 8-15 I received a letter from Dr. Hume, telling me of the riot, and asking if I was aware of it. I replied that I was fully informed, but that he need have no cause for apprehension, as I had the governor's assurance that full protection would be afforded.\n\nDr. Hume followed this up with another note, stating that the governor's yamên was being attacked. I thereupon went to the customs office and telephoned to the governor's yamên for information. I was told that about 2,000 men were in the yamên making a disturbance and demanding that the price of rice should be officially lowered. I stated that I was returning through the city and should pass near the yamên, and asked if it were safe; to which the reply came that it was perfectly safe, as the crowd would soon disperse. I then sent for Mr. Kwok, who, knowing of the trouble, repeated the assurance that I could easily pass through the city, though he qualified this remark when I asked him if it would not be wiser to return by water.\n\nI then returned to the steamer, and on arrival was met by one of the men of the consulate guard-boat, who begged me to return by water and to avoid the city, as the riot was very serious.\n\nI thereupon returned to the consulate and telephoned to the governor for more information. On being told that the rioters were still in the yamên, I telephoned to the taotai and asked him to send troops to all the missions to protect them. He replied that this had been done. I also asked whether, as a sign of friendship, and to help the officials in a difficult position, I should not telegraph to you to send one of His Majesty's ships. He replied that it was unnecessary to send a ship on account of the rice riot, but that if one was leaving I might as well ask it come at once. I thereupon sent my first telegram to Mr. Fraser, informing him of what had happened.\n\nI again asked the taotai whether troops had actually gone to the missions, and again received an affirmative reply.\n\nAt 2 A.M. the next morning, the 14th April, Mr. Warren, of the Wesleyan Mission, came to me and informed me that his mission had been burnt to the ground, and that all the members had only just managed to escape through the back door. They had fled to the West Gate, and were there kept in the guard-house until the gate could be opened, when they passed out unhurt. I at once sent my wife and child and Mrs. Cooke, who lived near to us, across to the island, and sent a message to Captain Agassiz to retain his ship. I again telephoned to the taotai, who replied that the destruction of the Wesleyan Mission must have been an accident, and that all other missions were being protected by troops.\n\nAt 3.30 A.M. a message came from Dr. Keller, of the China Inland Mission, that his mission and the Norwegian Mission had gone; that he was safe in a yamên, but that the Norwegians were fleeing for their lives. I then sent a messenger to every mission in the city to tell the members to leave as quickly as possible, and to get on board the steamers. I also telephoned to Mr. Gregory in the Polytechnic to leave by the East Gate, and to find his way to the consulate or to General Yang's camp. I further sent river guard-boatmen into the city, and gave them money to get covered chairs and bring the people to the consulate or to the steamer. I cannot speak too highly of the work done by these men. They went with the consulate writer repeatedly into the city, and did all in their power to get the people out quietly, and I think that the fact that no lives were lost is not only due to an apparent and inexplicable care on the part of the rioters that no lives should be sacrificed, but also to the prompt and skilful assistance they rendered.\n\nAt 9 A.M. I telephoned for, and got, the governor's launch, and she has rendered great assistance ever since. The launch was handed over quite unreservedly, and her \"lac yeh\" told to put himself entirely under my orders.\n\nAt 6 A.M. a detachment of the regular troops came to the consulate, and I was told that a large force had been sent into the city, and that order would be restored. At 10 A.M. General Yang sent an aide-de-camp well known to me, who assured me that the general could protect me if I went to his camp; but I felt that I ought to stay where I was most use to the whole community.\n\nAt noon the second-in-command of the guard-boats came to me to say that the governor's yamên was on fire, and that protection could no longer be afforded. He said that the message came from the governor direct, and he urged me to leave at once. He further stated that property would be preserved if we would leave the mainland. As I was strongly of opinion that the loss of one life would seriously prejudice the whole situation, I followed the advice, and after seeing everyone else embarked, I abandoned the consulate and went to the steam-ship \"Siangtan.\"\n\nI then requested the captain of the steam-ship \"Changwo\" to move down the river to opposite the consulate, in case any foreigners had been forgotten, and in case two, who had refused to leave until I wrote a personal note, should make for the consulate.\n\nAt that time the steam-ship \"Siangtan\" was lying alongside her bulk, but the Chinese began pouring on board in such numbers that I thought it advisable to move into the stream. At this time several places, including the governor's yamên, were blazing. We had only just moved from the hulk when we heard firing from the yamên, and hoped that orders had finally been given to put down the disturbance by force. I heard subsequently what happened. On the approach of the mob, with enormous torches, the general gave the order to fire, and one or two volleys were fired, by which about nine were killed. The treasurer thereupon threw himself at the feet of the general and implored him to cease fire, and at the same time the gentry coerced the governor. The result was that the governor put out a proclamation that the soldiers would not fire. This was promptly torn down. The treasurer then put out the order, and this was respected. After the issue of the treasurer's proclamation an officer of the governor's body-guard dared to give an order to fire, which one soldier obeyed; both were promptly executed. All this time the regular troops stood up against volleys of large bricks and tiles, and sustained about 120 casualties, all, I am told, more or less severe. One of the regular troops then said if they might not use rifles they could use swords, and killed a looter; but this was also forbidden, and from this moment a slow, deliberate, methodical destruction of property commenced.\n\nAt 4 P.M., as too many Chinese were still flocking to the \"Siangtan,\" I asked the captain to drop down to the consulate, and there we transferred passengers for Hankow on to the \"Changwo.\"\n\nAt 6:30 P.M., while we were about 50 yards from the Bund, the mob, just having completed the destruction of the London Mission, came to the consulate. They were headed, as I was told by one or two eye-witnesses, by a gang of men dressed all in black—black short coats opening in the front, black short trousers with broad white bands round their ankles. They were provided with implements to destroy houses, and the consulate writer, who watched the destruction of the London Mission, told me they went about their work with quietness and method. He said they were certainly not Changsha men, were from 20 to 30 years of age, very emaciated and with black faces. The officer in charge of the river guard-boats, of which there were eight, in addition to about sixty of the regular troops, came and asked me for permission to fire, but as I had all archives, English and Chinese, and the cyphers safe, I requested him to tell the heads of the looters they were free to enter the consulate and burn or loot it, provided they took special precautions that no lives were lost. I also asked him to move the guard-boats from the Bund to give proof of my intentions. He returned and executed all I had said. He added, however, that all the men of the river guard-boats were personally fond of me, and it seems that the villagers echoed this statement and made an earnest appeal to leave the property alone. The mob then asked the consulate gate-keeper, who kept the flag flying the whole time till the return of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" on the 17th, to open the main gate. This being done, they then asked him to hang out lamps, and the gate-keeper hung out the large consulate lamps. The mob never even entered the gate, and throughout the whole time not a single article of any kind whatsoever was touched in the building. The mob, it is interesting to note, then went and raided\n\n[2751 -4]\n\n216", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "6\n\nMr. Cooke's house, just behind the consulate, and from there proceeded to the Roman Catholic Mission, an enormous property, which they burnt out completely.\n\nBeing informed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agent that it had been determined to fire on the two steamers from the city wall, from which they were well within range, I considered it advisable to drop about 1 mile downstream. We did this, and during the night the steam-ship \"Kian\" arrived and anchored beside us.\n\nBetween 6:30 P.M. of the 14th and 4 A.M. of the 15th all the property on the river front was destroyed, including the godowns and hulks of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., and also the customs-house. The work, I am told by eye-witnesses, was performed by at most twenty men, all the others being onlookers, and no attempt was made to stop it. The Japanese property, which is largely financed by Hunanese, was left untouched. During the night the Japanese consul and his staff, together with other Japanese, escaped via their hulk, where troops were stationed, to Chinese boats, but waited till next day to join their steamer which was anchored near me.\n\nOn the 15th April at 3:30 A.M. a fire-boat passed the steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" The boat had obviously been filled with oil and was burning brightly; but it passed nowhere near the ship, and no other came.\n\nAt about 10 A.M. the Commissioner of Customs and his staff went up in the launch to see the damage done to the customs buildings and to guard their property on the island. Their arrival was the signal for the burning of the hotel, kept by a Chinaman, in which some of the members of the outdoor staff lived. It was not very long before I got a letter and a personal message from the treasurer that their presence was exciting the people, and that he would protect all property if I would persuade them to leave. I consequently urged Mr. Wakefield to retire, and as he had received a letter from the treasurer to say his property would be kept intact, he finally consented to abandon his position.\n\nAs the Chinese passengers on the \"Siangtan\" declared they would create a disturbance if we did not leave, and about the same time I received positive information from the river guard-boats and Captain Agassiz from the compradore of the firm that an organised attack on the steamers had been prepared, oil-boats and hand-grenades having been seen, and that all property having been destroyed they were the next objective, I felt, in view of all that had happened, that this warning could not be disregarded, and decided to move about 12 miles down out of sight of, though within touch of, the city. The Japanese consul not only endorsed this view, but stated, through his vice-consul, that it was not a riot but a revolution, and that he intended to go straight to Hankow whatever my course might be.\n\nOn the 16th April at 5 A.M. he left, and at 8 A.M. I sent the steam-ship \"Siangtan\" to Hankow, retaining in the steam-ship \"Kian\" a few who wished to return to Changsha.\n\nOn the 15th I had sent the launch to Siangtan, from which place I had received bad news, to give the residents the chance of reaching Changsha. They arrived on the night of the 16th, and I sent them to Yochou on the morning of the 17th under escort of Mr. Wrench and Mr. Morgan, as we were told there were riots at Siangyin and Chinkong, two places en route.\n\nMessrs. Wrench and Morgan met His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" and returned with her. She arrived at the steam-ship \"Kian\" at 2:30 P.M., and I at once proceeded to Changsha.\n\nI refused to see the Customs taotai, who immediately came to call, giving as my reason that I would only see the highest authority in the province. Besides, as I was anxious to secure his removal as the first step to a settlement, I did not wish him to think that I in any way thought he was friendly. The same evening His Majesty's ship \"Nightingale\" arrived in port.\n\n**\n\nOn the 19th April the treasurer came to call with Mr. Kwok, the Customs taotai, Taotai Lu (Governor Ta'en's French secretary), and a certain Hu taotai. The treasurer assured me most emphatically that he could afford protection, and asked me to give him the names of those who wished to enter the city, in order that the Customs taotai might see to residences for them.\n\nDuring the interview the treasurer asked me if I had heard that \"Ch'uan-fei\" (the regular term for Boxers) were concerned in the trouble. I replied that I had not.\n\nAt about 2 P.M. I informed all that they could return into the city, and His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" left for Chinkong. She had not been gone for half an hour when I was informed by the river guard-boats that the city was placarded with notices: \"Slay Ts'en and oust the foreigner.\" A copy of this placard was also given me by Mr. Wakefield. I thereupon sent for Mr. Kwok, and finally urged him to tell the truth for once. He stated that the interview in the morning was meaningless, as the treasurer had to speak as he did before the Customs taotai, and that protection could not be afforded. I was also visited by the commandant of the guard-boats and his second in command, who told me just the same. I therefore told Mr. Kwok to return to the treasurer and to obtain from him a definite assurance as to affording protection, telling him that, if this could not be given, he should get the few foreigners in the city out as quietly as possible, and giving him a circular to show them as proof. The treasurer then told Mr. Kwok to get foreigners out, and wrote to me that he could not provide against any untoward event, and that the idea that foreigners should not be in the city should be followed out.\n\nThereupon I wrote a note to the captain of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" and sent it by my launch. The launch returned with an armed party at 3:30 A.M. on the morning of the 20th and was soon followed by His Majesty's ship \"Thistle.\" A most earnest appeal was then made to me by the guard-boatmen to send away all foreigners. I sent those who had really nothing to do in the steam-ship \"Kian\" and kept an efficient number of good reliable working members of the community. That evening, the American consul at Hankow having telegraphed to me to order all his citizens out of Hunan, I sent launches to Siangtan and to Changtê to give foreigners the chance of coming to Changsha if they wished.\n\nThroughout the 21st April I was constantly interviewed by Chinese officers, including the president of the polytechnic (referred to in my intelligence report for the December quarter 1909, p. 12).\n\nThe\n\nI sent an armed launch, in charge of a warrant officer of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle,\" to get the people out of Iyang from which we had bad rumours. The journey was a complete success, all the women and children leaving and three men remaining. This evening reports came to me that two parties of rowdies armed with knives had crossed to the island, one to each end. The guard-boatmen and the troops were fully posted as to their movements and begged me to give them the chance of proving that they would fire, and asked some of the foreigners to join them in the defence. I was not, however, at this stage prepared to risk any lives and everyone was brought to His Majesty's ship \"Thistle.\" The preparations made were so effective that nothing occurred, and after about three hours all returned to their boats and the houses on the island. The rumour was verified next day.\n\nOn the 24th April the new governor arrived escorted by three gun-boats, making a most imposing entry. The events subsequent to his arrival and my suggestions regarding the due apportionment of blame for the outbreak will form the subject of separate despatches.\n\n\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nW. MEYRICK HEWLETT.\n\nExtract from the \"North China Daily News\" of April 25, 1910.\n\nTHE CHANGSHA RIOTS.\n\nTHROUGH Reuter's Agency we have received the following intelligence :-\n\n\"London, via Bombay, April 23, 1910. \"Despatches from Washington state that the United States Minister at Peking, Mr. W. J. Calhoun, has telegraphed that he fears that the trouble in Hunan is spreading. The United States Asiatic fleet has been ordered to leave Amoy, to assist if necessary.\"\n\n\"London, via Bombay, April 24, 1910. \"The British chargé d'affaires in Peking has telegraphed to the Foreign Office to the effect that organised hands have resumed rioting at Changsha, and all foreigners have taken refuge in two British vessels.\"\n\nFrom subsequent news received from Changsha it would appear that the rioting referred to in the above telegram either did not take place or was not of a serious\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428879, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "nature. The latest accounts indicate that the town is once more quiet, although no information has been received to say that foreigners have returned from the vessels to their houses.\n\nFrom the information supplied by the Chinese officials themselves, to which reference is made below, it is evident that an anti-foreign movement was in preparation throughout Hunan. It has partly miscarried, owing to the premature outbreak of riots in Changsha over a grievance between the people and the officials. But directly trouble had arisen the hostility of the populace is turned, as by command, against foreigners.\n\nIt will be found that the following letter from our Changsha correspondent embodies the most authoritative account that has yet been received of the riots in Changsha :-\n\nA Graphic Account.\n\nChangsha, April 19, 1910. Wednesday, the 13th April, to Friday, the 15th April, were days that will long be remembered in Changsha. The riots will be marked from the fact that a governor's yamên has been sacked and burnt, and a very extensive series of looting and burning of foreign property has been carried out as almost a by-play of the main aim of the riot.\n\nThat aim was to cheapen rice. It is the old, old story that our history books show us as occurring in the lands of the Mediterranean, and that Carlyle has so picturesquely taught us to connect with the French Revolution—a hungry mob is dangerous. Rice has been, of course, dearer and dearer on account of the Yang-tsze floods. For the same reason the caters of rice have been more numerous, for the refugees from Hupeh have been numbered by the thousand. The forbidding of export from Changsha had not the desired effect of dropping prices—if that effect was really desired by those who forbade the export. Promises of opening Government granaries were not fulfilled, and as the prices crept up disappointment and anger grew. On Wednesday night a rise from 82 cash a-pint to 84 cash provoked the gathering of an angry mob. Some four or five officials were sent to speak good words. But one of the speakers resorted to that last refuge of a weak man—bluster and bluff: \"Rice is not so dear here as at Hankow or Canton, or in foreign countries.\" A howl of derision greeted the untimely speech. \"Seize!\" shouted the official, and the order was left-handedly obeyed by the seizing of him on the part of the mob, instead of the seizing of the shouters by his runners.\n\nThe official, who was of no less rank than a taotai, was dragged by the mob right through the city to the governor's yamên with a crowd that grew rapidly. Soon after 8 P.M. all the immense space in front of the yamên was packed with people, and the first two series of doors and wooden divisions had been burst in. Messages were handed to and fro, until at last the military were called into action. There was certainly some stabbing with bayonets—that deaths resulted is both asserted and denied. At any rate, messengers and fragments of the crowd broke off and scattered in all directions. Then followed beating of gongs and shouting of orders. Every house door was set open and every lamp lighted. The city gates were all shut.\n\nThe Work of Destruction.\n\nThe crowds that went south divided into two main streams. The western one reached the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, perhaps a little earlier than the eastern one would reach the Norwegian. The Methodist Mission door had not been opened at the first gong beating, so it was hammered at by the crowd. As soon as it was opened attention was concentrated on the buildings rented by the Imperial Post Office and the Imperial Bank a little further on in the same street. The post office door was too substantial for such weapons as the crowd possessed. Not so the bank doors and windows. Showers of shattered glass were followed by showers of broken tiles, as the mob leaders got on to the roof. One huge stroke, followed by a loud yell, announced that the doors were burst in. Then there was comparative stillness on the night air. It was only comparative, and it only lasted while the maddened crowd could retrace the 50 or 100 yards back to the mission. The mission windows and lamps followed after the manner of the bank, and the largest chapel in the city within two minutes was a wreck. The missionaries, who had all got dressed, were able to leave quietly by the back door, while the crowd streamed across the lawn and looted, and made a bonfire of the loot on the lawn. The missionaries—five ladies and four men—walked quite unmolested through the 200 yards of back streets between the compound and the city gate. Then there was a delay of twenty minutes or so while the keys were being fetched. The refugees were taken into the shop that is used by the guard. While they were there a police-box was smashed up; but no attempt was made to molest them. The gates were opened, and the missionaries went at once on to the C. N. steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" News was taken to the British consul (whose temporary consulate has been outside the gates, with telephonic communication to the city).\n\nWith the missionary in the house, telling the tale of the looting and burning, the Customs taotai telephoned out that the premises were adequately guarded!\n\nThe eastern crowd had first reached the Norwegian Mission. There the same story of looting of houses and escape of missionaries was repeated. The Norwegians were in a much less convenient position for reaching safety. They spent some hours on the city wall, and were well cared for by the official in charge at the North Gate. He himself helped in the cooking of some refreshments.\n\nThe nearest foreign neighbours were the doctor of the Yale Mission and his family and one of the professors at the Government College with his family. Their house was rented, and was overlooked by the crowd. The two families were received first into the house of a Chinese gentleman, and after dawn made their way through the Eastern Gate to a camp under the command of a friendly colonel.\n\nNot much farther on was the China Inland Mission compound. There the crowd made rapid destruction, but once more the missionaries escaped.\n\nAs the day wore on refugees came from one place and another, until every European and American had left the city.\n\nAbout 11 A.M. the mob fired the governor's yamên, and for the rest of the day volumes of smoke rose up as building after building caught fire. Rumour was busy; the governor had been murdered, had committed suicide, was in hiding. Assuredly there was but little space for him to hide in his own extensive compound by nightfall. At 2 o'clock a column of smoke rose over the Norwegian Mission, and a little later another marked the site of the China Inland Mission. There was no mistaking that mob rule was the only rule in Changsha.\n\nThat night the river side was attacked; the custom-house not held by the mob to be Chinese property; the wharves and godowns of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine and Matheson were all burned down. So was the Catholic Mission outside the North Gate, the Japanese consulate inside the city, and the Normal College outside the South Gate.\n\nOn the Steamers.\n\nDuring the night the C.N. steam-ships \"Kian\" and \"Siangkiang\" arrived, and early on Friday morning a number of the ladies and others left for Hankow by the I.-C. steam-ship \"Changwo.\" The three British steamers had been chartered by the consul on behalf of the Government. Still, that does not alter the indebtedness of all on board to the great courtesy of the captains, officers, and not least the heavily overworked staff of Chinese servants.\n\nThe boats were first anchored about a mile or two below the city and were able to see and were seen by the looting crowds. Some of the best of the military officials—men who had some claim to be listened to, if only on account of their great help in guiding parties of refugees to safety—hazarded the opinion that the military would more quickly regain control if the boats would drop 10 miles or so further down out of sight. That there was a turn in the tide was shown by the fact that two looters caught in setting fire to a Chinese-owned hotel (which was patronised by foreigners) had been promptly bayonetted and hanged. So the consul gave orders for our boats to get out of sight.\n\nThe Japanese community (with the exception of one or two who could not be reached) had gathered in the compound of the \"Nisshin Kisen Kaisha,\" and with the help of 200 soldiers—who had been drilled by Japanese instructors—held the compound safe and sound. They were now all on board the \"Siangkiang.\"\n\nOn Saturday morning, the \"Siangtan\" and \"Siangkiang,\" both crowded with foreign passengers, left for Hankow, and the \"Kian\" stayed on alone. During the day reassuring reports came from some of the interior cities connected by telegraph with Changsha. But at 10 P.M. the whole missionary community at Siangtan, with the exception of two gentlemen, arrived on board the governor's tender which had\n\n[2751 2-4]\n\nD\n\n218", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428893, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 234, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nI now beg to enclose, in translation, the regulations of the society* together with reports of the first two meetings,* as published in the local Russian newspapers \"Harbinski Viestnik\" of the 26th April and \"Novo Zhizn\" of the 6th May.\n\nThe main purpose of the society, as set forth in its regulations, is to develop and improve commercial relations between Russia and Japan and to assist the dissemination of a knowledge of the language of each country among the subjects of the other. At the initial meeting, held on the 24th April, Mr. Tischenko, the editor of the \"Harbinski Viestnik,\" particularly emphasised the fact that the institution had no political motive and must direct its energies exclusively towards the attainment of the objects for which it had been established.\n\nIt is difficult to think that the policy expounded by Mr. Tischenko and explained in the regulations of the society is either the real raison d'être of the new association or one which can be strictly followed. There is, as far as I can gather, very little intercourse between bona fide Russian and Japanese merchants in Harbin, and there are a few points connected with the initiation and constitution of the society to which I may be permitted to make special reference.\n\nIt seems clear from the report of the first meeting that the society has the approval and support of local Russian officials occupying a prominent position, who considered it desirable to mark the occasion of its introduction to the public with messages of greeting and good-will. On the Japanese side, a long congratulatory speech was made by a representative of the Japanese consulate-general, namely, Mr. Sugina, the first secretary, who is a fluent Russian scholar. More significant, perhaps, still are the descriptions and occupations of the members of both countries who have been elected to sit on the council of the society. These are contained in a separate list which I have prepared and which forms enclosure 4 to this despatch.* As regards the Russian members, all but MM. Dynowsky, Steinfeld, and Poletika are directly connected with the railway administration, under whose auspices the commercial schools are conducted and whose press organ is the \"Harbinski Viestnik.\" The only merchant is M. Dynowsky, who was also at one time associated with the railway, and is now part-lessee of the Manchurian Flour Mill and vice-chairman of the town or municipal council, which can itself hardly be considered as entirely independent of the railway company. The Japanese members, excluding Mr. Takachi, of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha (a commercial company which is generally thought to have strong Government support), and two gentlemen, whose occupations I have been unable to discover, are none of them business men--three are journalists, two are members of the Japanese consulate-general at Harbin, and two are connected with the South Manchurian Railway. Lastly, it may be observed that the regulations require the confirmation of the Civil Department of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the head of which is General Affanasiev.\n\nI have already stated that there is, as far as I can ascertain, little intercourse between bona fide Russian and Japanese merchants in Harbin-indeed, merchants of both nationalities are, in the restricted sense of the word, few-and there appears to be good reason to think that the movement towards a rapprochement with Japan, though it may have official Russian support and may be favoured by certain individual Russians who have personal interests to serve, does not meet with the approval of the local Russian community in general.\n\nThe question was recently discussed in a long article in the \"Novo Zhizn,\" an independent journal, the theme of which was that the Russians and Japanese are altogether too dissimilar to make closer relations between them at the present time either desirable or possible. The following is a quotation:\n\n\"In Japan the practice obtains of performing harakiri.' In our country not one patriot has ripped open his stomach. We love in our way and the Japanese love in their way. Between us and the Japanese there is a gulf which no written regulations can bridge.”\n\nThe writer expresses the opinion that it is impossible to exclude political questions from the objects of the society and he plainly entertains the fear that the party which will benefit from the arrangement is the Japanese and not the Russians. He makes special note of a statement to the effect that Russia's economic interests in South Manchuria are small; while those of Japan in the north of the province are of vital importance and, in order to give force to his argument in regard to the difference in character and method of the two nationalities, he says:-\n\n\"We came to the meeting, so did the Japanese. We came, one by one, without previous preparation-each one spoke for himself. With the Japanese it was otherwise. Each one had a copy of the regulations; they were all prepared and one person was authorised to speak for them all.”\n\nIn a word, in view of the recent war and the uncertainty attaching to the relations between the Governments of the two countries, the writer thinks that the time is not ripe for any society of the kind in question and that the Japanese, who, he admits, are more thorough and more fanatically patriotic, will get the better of the bargain.\n\nThe writer, in fact, sounds a note of warning which to many of his compatriots will not appear needless. It is unnecessary to lay stress on the strength of Japan's position in South Manchuria, but I venture to think that it will be of interest to mention certain indications which point to a desire on the part of the Japanese to push their influence into the north of the province, and it is the north of Manchuria, or what may be called the Russian sphere, which offers the largest field for development. I have previously, in my despatch No. 6 of the 30th March last, alluded to the wish of the Japanese to be allowed to navigate the Sungari, and I trust that I shall not be thought tedious if I quote at length the following paragraph from the \"Ryoto Shimpo,\" which appeared in the British Association of Manchuria \"Bulletin\" of the 23rd ultimo:\n\n\"Enterprise in North Manchuria and the Japanese.--None of the work carried on by the Japanese in South Manchuria is worthy of particular attention. The rearing of the wild silk-worm and the silk-weaving industry are gradually showing a favourable tendency. Several industries wherein Kaoliang will be utilised are also being developed. In North Manchuria, however, steps are being taken by the Japanese to develop the natural resources. In particular, gold, silver, and other mining operations are contemplated. Needless to say, in order to carry out this purpose, it will be necessary to deal quite openly with the Russian officials, if a mutual benefit is to be secured, and it is important that the place selected for these negotiations be conveniently situated, so that a prompt settlement of any difficulties may be arrived at.\n\nIt is a matter for congratulation that the number of Japanese intending to establish an agency or branch in Harbin is increasing, and it is said that their arrival is welcomed by the Russians.\"\n\nI regret that I have no knowledge of the standing of the \"Ryoto Shimpo,\" and am therefore unable to state whether its opinions are generally deserving of careful attention, but the progress which has apparently been made by the Japanese with the development of the Fushun coal mines, and the success which seems to be attending their efforts to find a market for the coal would appear to indicate that they find mining enterprise in North China not unprofitable. This coal, concerning which I enclose (Enclosure 5) copy of an article from the \"Nichi Nichi,\" appearing in the British Association of Manchuria \"Bulletin\" of the 29th and 30th April, the tone of which is somewhat striking, has already found its way to Harbin, and I understand that experiments have been made with it by the Chinese Eastern Railway. Two years ago coal as a fuel was not known in Harbin; at the present moment the tendency is to use it in preference to wood. Thus a gradual change from wood to coal fuel is, I understand, being made by the railway company, and there is reason to believe that a similar innovation is contemplated in respect of the steamers plying on the Sungari and Amur. Local flour mills and breweries are now, it is estimated, using respectively 40 per cent. and 30 per cent. coal fuel, while the electric light stations and other establishments consume this substance exclusively. The coal burnt by all these enterprises, excluding the railway, comes from Fushun.\n\nThe Chinese Eastern Railway is able to draw some supplies from mines in the neighbourhood of Vladivostock, and there is a mine in operation at a point near Manchuria Station. The company also has (vide Mr. Willis's despatch No. 24 of the 7th March, 1908) coal-mining rights along the whole line of the railway in the provinces of Heilungchiang and Kirin. What the Russians in Manchuria, however, seriously lack is funds, and that they are not necessarily averse to the employment of foreign capital, even in Russian territory itself, is sufficiently clear in that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. have an interest in a zinc mine on an island near Vladivostock, and that they and other Shanghai merchants, such as Messrs. Craig...\n\n3\n\n232", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428986, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nan effective control across the watershed from the direction of the Salween, as the first step in which they authorised the Tengkeng Sawbwa to advance into the country and take vigorous measures to exact obedience, at the same time laying plans for a After some definite administrative effort before the close of the winter season. opposition the Sawbwa, with from 400 to 500 men, succeeded in reaching the group of Lashi villages lying nearest the frontier, Upper Pienma (Hpimaw) was burned, the submission of the four other villages was ensured, and representatives were left to enforce the payment of all outstanding tolls. In order to ascertain the facts of this raid and the actual conditions prevailing in this inaccessible territory I was instructed by His Majesty's Minister to proceed to Tengkeng on a tour of enquiry, and with this object I left my post at Tengyueh on the 7th April, 1910, accompanied by an escort of ten soldiers from the regular Chinese army which was considered necessary for my safety by the Taotai, as the route ran through the ill-reputed country of the Lisu tribesmen. It may be presumed that the Taotai had reported to the Viceroy at Yünnan-fu the representations which had been made through me regarding the raid, and his refusal to consider the request of the Government of Burmah for the punishment of Tengkeng and the payment of compensation to the villages; in notifying my departure he ventured the suggestion that, although my journey might have been planned merely for purposes of mahseer fishing, he had shrewd suspicions of ulterior motives, as the Salween Valley could scarcely be regarded as a pleasure resort at this season of the year.\n\nJourney through Mingkuang.-On leaving Tengyueh a series of long and narrow valleys, divided by steep and well-defined ranges, and watered by branches of the Taping and Shweli Rivers, run in a due northerly direction till they are blocked at their ends by the range, which strikes east from Manung Pum till it joins the main Irrawady-Salween Divide, and which itself forms the watershed between the N'Maikha and Shweli systems. After reaching Kutung Kai I advanced along the route through the Mingkuang Valley, which rises in a chain of cultivated and well-watered \"patzu\" or plains of gradually increasing altitude till it meets the cross range at its northern extremity. The consulate writer, who accompanied Mr. Litton in 1905, did not cease to exclaim at the progress made by the Chinese settlers since his previous journey; flourishing markets have sprung up along the route, every available acre is under cultivation, and there remain but a few miles to the extreme north where the original Lisu population retain possession of the land, and where grazing grounds are still available for the wandering herds of cattle, sheep, and ponies. The remaining four valleys to the north of Tengyueh are thickly populated and cultivated to the limit of the frontier line, but, although Mingkuang is advancing more slowly in agricultural development, it is undoubtedly the richest of the five belts, and the recent journeys of Mr. Coggin Brown of the Geological Survey of India prove that it is an intensely mineralised area, rich deposits of gold, silver, iron, and copper lying in close proximity to the frontier range, and in many places these are now being worked with Chinese labour and native methods. At the head of this valley one passes from the zone of bare, treeless hills and intense cultivation to a country in which the masses of limestone cliff rise from the pines and evergreens of forest-clad slopes, the foaming torrent of the Mingkuang stream winds a white course through the bracken, the calls of pheasant, sambur, and barking deer break the silence of the morning, and rhododendrons of rich red and white, briar roses, and pyrus japonica, gleam out with a wonderful brilliancy of colour from the grey mists that herald the coming rains, whilst in the forest clearings the ground is carpeted with a purple glow of dainty primulas and ground orchids, raising their heads above the tawny masses of last year's bracken. Even the Chinese were moved to wonder at the beauty of the land, and they twined garlands of flowers in the bridles and packs of the mules, or round the muzzles of their Mauser rifles, which have fallen sadly from their high estate since they were issued new and bright in the year of our Lord 1871.\n\nTa Chu Pa. The fifth day's march brought us to the end of the valley at Ta Chu Pa, where a scattered population of eighty Lisu families eke out a scanty subsistence, and five strongly stockaded Chinese houses form the head-quarters of a thriving trade in coffin planks, which are brought from the forests beyond the range. Here we halted for a day in the hope of getting some information regarding the recent raid, and Hsü Linhsiang, one of the Chinese timber merchants, informed me that he was in part responsible for the petition for assistance, reported in my despatch of the 24th February, but that he could add nothing to his original information as the Tengkeng Sawbwa had threatened to behead him, and that he was therefore banished from his home in the N'Maikha Valley. On the following day the son of the Pienma headman arrived at Ta Chu Pa, and sent a message that spies of Tongkeng and the Pao-shan magistrate were in the village, and had threatened his life if he had any dealings with me; during the night the Chinaman Hsü was kidnapped by these men, and hurried away to Yungchang-fu, and I realised that, as the Chinese had taken such precautions to block my enquiries in Ta Chu Pa, it would be of little use to proceed to Tengkeng. I decided therefore that my only hope of ascertaining the true facts of the case would be to make a forced march across the passes to Pienma, and see for myself what had actually happened. It appeared unwise to proceed into the unadministered territory with a Chinese escort, and in view of the fact that the expedition of 1905 had lost thirty mules on the first day's march, the road was proved impossible for a heavily equipped party. The escort was therefore dispatched in charge of all heavy baggage by the road running through Chinese territory to Tengkeng, and I managed to engage a number of Lisu porters to carry sufficient kit for a week for myself and my personal servants; there was little enthusiasm for the journey, and it was difficult to decide who felt the more aggrieved, the escort who were \"being deserted,\" and left to face the terrors of the road alone, or the men who were to penetrate the \"inner land,\" relying on the protection of a shot-gun, and an assortment of various medicines, the latter of which I have found an unfailing passport to the affections of the frontier tribesmen, the application of salts and embrocations ensuring perennial mental gratification even if their virtues were somewhat misapplied for purposes of physical relief.\n\n3\n\nJourney to Pienma.-On the seventh day we commenced the ascent of the range, the track lying through miles of tangled bamboo brake and dense forest jungle, through which an advance guard of Lashi Kachins hewed a way with their dhas, whilst the ponies struggled and slipped on the steep mountain paths, scrambling over the trunks of great fallen trees, and wading through the rocky torrents. This track is regularly used for a few months of the year by Lisu and Lashi porters, carrying coffin planks from Kangfang down to Mingkuang, but their path was scarcely discernible in the jungle, and the heavy rains which had fallen for several weeks had made of the low-lying portions a hopeless morass. After a long climb we reached the Pass of Ten Shui-ling, and here I was somewhat surprised to find that the tribesmen had a very clear and definite idea of the principle of the frontier. Pointing to the two streams which trickled in opposite directions down the mountain sides they explained that the parting formed the border line between Great Britain and China, and gave me such an insight into the practical meaning of a Divide, as would have proved a liberal education to those distinguished officers of the Chinese Government who in 1904 committed themselves to the statement that in this district the watershed lay at the foot of the mountains. Then with a certain courtesy that went to the heart of the situation, the Lisus handed me over to the Lashis as their guest, and we continued our journey down into the valley of the Ngawchang Kha (known by the Chinese as the Hsiao Chiang). On arrival at the first camp the weather broke, and for five days and nights the rain poured down in ceaseless torrents. The little single-fly tents could not resist the storm, clothes and bedding were sodden, the weight of the porters' loads was greatly increased, and the poor fellows spent their nights in the open, with no protection from the wet ground, or from the beating rain, save a layer of palm fibre. After seeing the hard lives that these tribesmen lead, and the triumph of the elements in their mountain homes, one wonders little at the animism forming the basis of all their faith, or at the fact that the rain and thunder, the lightning, the wind, the forest, and the mountains are all held by demons of malice, whose wrath can only be appeased by offerings and sacrifice. On one day we were obliged to march from dawn till dark without a halt for rest or food, as we found no clearing in the jungle, and the country was reported by the natives to be full of poisonous herbs which the ponies would eat if they halted, with fatal results, and it was therefore with intense relief that we at last saw the Pienma villages on a distant hillside, and felt that the worst of the journey was past. For one brief moment a glimpse of a magnificent snowy range to the north-west marked the division of the Lashi country from that of the Wild Marus, and shortly afterwards we were met by a number of headmen and villagers from Pienma (Hpimaw), who had come out in spite of the storm to offer a welcome.\n\nThe headmen had heard of my approach and evidently believed that Litton had come back, for they said they had waited five years for my return, and there was evident disappointment when they found that there was no army of occupation at my back. They poured forth their grievances at once, however, stating that there were twenty Chinese soldiers in Pienma, that two deputies of the Yungchang prefect were ...\n\n324", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428988, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "bought across the Maru range at one ounce for three ounces of silver. There is one point of considerable interest in connection with these mineral deposits. In the autumn of last year the Chinese trader Li Lao-pan applied for and obtained through the Tengyuch Taotai a written permit to work the silver and salt of the Pienma district. He proposed to bring over men from the Mingkuang mines, but the excitement following the raid was so great that none dared to enter the country, and it is not improbable that the information supplied to the Taotai on this occasion may have proved an added incentive to the Chinese in their resolve to make a final bid for the possession of the unadministered territory.\n\nThe Chinese Li Fo-ming. It may be of interest to give some account of the Chinese trader Li Fa-ming or Li Lao-pan (known by the tribesmen as Li San-pao), who might be one of our necessary acquisitions should the Government of Burmah decide to undertake the immediate administration of this territory. He speaks Kachin and Maru, and evidently carries on a thriving trade throughout these districts, where he has considerable influence with the people, who travel little beyond their homes and depend on him for the news and the products of the outside world. He brings into the country Chinese cotton-cloth, opium, beads, buttons, needles and oxen, and sends out gold, musk, bears'-galls, huang-lien (a drug), beeswax, and coffin planks. He was very anxious that I should expel Tengkeng's tax-collectors from Kang-fang, visit the twenty-six villages, and appoint headmen both in them and in the Pienma group. He also urged me to go with him on a journey of three days to the country of the wild Maru, where he assured me of a warm welcome. I did not, however, feel justified in accepting any of these offers. He reports thirteen salt springs at O-mi-o-tze, in the Maru country, and evidently has great faith in the potentialities of that land. He was of great assistance to me on my journey, and, although I have no doubt that he manages to keep well with the Chinese authorities, I think he might prove useful, as he is one of the many Yunnanese traders who know Burmah well, and who welcome British rule with its open roads, its security for property, and encouragement of trade. He did not hesitate to press for a ratification of the mines concession granted by the Taotai, but I explained that I could offer him no assistance in this direction, and that I was merely on a tour of enquiry.\n\nJourney to Tengkeng. On the 18th April the weather showed signs of clearing, and we said good-bye to Pienma, whilst the whole population turned out to speed us on our way and to urge an early and a permanent return. The top of the pass (10,500 feet) was covered with whirling mist-wreaths, and at intervals could be seen miles of snow-peaks stretching far away in a long unbroken line, as the great mass of the Irrawady-Salween watershed vanished into the white clouds towards the north. All round the pass were masses of primulas, great blooms of a brilliant azure blue, and to the east the Valley of the Ku-tan Ho ran steeply down in sunshine to Tengkeng and the Salween, backed by the great range dividing it from the Mekong, which is almost as perfect and symmetrical as the peaks on its western bank. Along the track were gangs of men \"making a road for the Paoshan magistrate,\" and at the little homestead where we stayed the night an intimation had been received that supplies would be required in the course of the next few days. On arrival at Tengkeng the magistrate appeared in person, a heavy, genial officer, who leapt into the midst of affairs without introduction or warning. He had been sent by the Yungchang Prefect, his superior, to look after his subordinate Tengkeng; the Prefect feared I should require information which the Sawbwa could scarcely be trusted to give; it was very hard on a man of his weight this journey into the Salween Valley at this season of the year, and his chair-bearers had given out already; he was leaving for Pienma at once, but suggested that I should stay a few days and rest; did I need any information? He unfortunately recovered his breath before I had time to speak, and I left him the next day, having only been able to tell him that he would be ill-advised to cross the range at the present juncture; that the question of the frontier in this district was under the consideration of our two Governments; that I was telegraphing to Yunnan-fu to the effect that I had requested him to await further orders before proceeding, and that, if he persisted in crossing without further instructions, he might embarrass his Government. With some reluctance he promised to communicate with the Yungchang Prefect, who was believed to be awaiting my return in Tengyuel, and he undertook to delay his departure until a reply had been received, explanations and ejaculations being shouted at me across the hills long after they had ceased to be intelligible. A secretary who accompanied this active officer informed my writer that the magistrate had been instructed to hurry up to Pienma to establish a school and to appoint headmen, and that there had been great trouble about the destruction of the frontier pillar in Lungchuan, but that the Viceroy had telegraphed from Yunnan-fu that he had received assurances that the Government of Burmah did not propose to make an incident of the matter, and that the magistrate had been ordered to leave the next day; the Viceroy's message had concluded with an injunction to lay aside all fear of the foreigner. This information was almost as breathless and inarticulate as the magistrate himself, but it appears to throw some light on the fact that the Tengkeng raid and the activity of the Prefect in regard to the southern frontier are all part of one scheme resulting from a sudden access of frontier activity; that the action of the Prefect in destroying the pillar (reported in my despatch of the 15th February) caused a certain disquiet lest it had carried things too far, but that some assurance had been received which had allayed their uneasiness, and on the strength of which they were losing no time in laying the foundations of administrative control beyond the disputed line of the north-eastern frontier. At the same time, it confirms the reports which reach me on all sides that the destruction of the Lungchuan pillar was regarded by the Chinese as a matter of considerable importance, and that they anticipated a rebuff from the Government of Burmah with some anxiety.\n\nFrontier Chiefs. The Tengkeng Chief (Sawbwa, Fu-yi or Tussu) called to see me in company with his superintending officer, but he was so much overwhelmed by the presence of the magistrate that he was unable to speak, except to mention that he was Chinese by descent, and of the name of Tuan. He is a slight, nervous-looking lad of about 20, and by no means the blustering desperado I had expected to find, locally known as a fool, and there seems little doubt that in the matter of the raid he was merely a tool of the Paoshan magistrate and his energetic superior, the Prefect Peng. Five chiefs of the same Tuan family hold the neighbouring Lisu posts, and none of them appear to have the personality or power to band men together on their own initiative, though they form a powerful combination, and could doubtless raise a considerable force and prove very troublesome if once convinced of the backing of the Chinese officials, of whom they have a wholesome dread. The last I saw of the neighbouring Sawbwa Tuan of Lao-wo was a crouching, sobbing figure in the consulate gatehouse, clad in a highly-decorated Japanese uniform and a pair of ladies' brown boots, who had been \"beaten to death\" by Colonel Chiang for daring to claim a tiny share in the credit of avenging last year's German murder. The two Mingkuang Sawbwaships from whose districts came the opposition to Mr. Hertz's column in 1900 are now represented by very feeble rulers, and I think that little trouble need be feared from their direction, as the Chinese have ousted or absorbed the Lisu population in their districts, and their titles are little but a name. The advance of the Chinese farmers northwards along the Salween has also had serious effects for the Sawbwa of Tengkeng, who is obliged to walk warily in taxing the pure Chinese, lest he be called to book in the magistrate's yamen; his poppy cultivation has also been stopped—meaning a loss of from 16 to 20 ounces of opium from each house—and his total annual income on the Chinese side of the frontier is believed to have been reduced to about 2,000 rupees, a fact which is well borne out by the poverty and squalor of his capital and his yamen, qualities in which those of his neighbours enter into active competition. With the reduction of their revenues they are year by year less able to meet the demands of the magistrate for his annual perquisites, and there is no doubt that the chiefs have felt tentatively, and the magistrate has indicated actively the necessity for some new resources if they are to retain their posts.\n\nThe Salween Valley. On learning of the object of the Paoshan magistrate's proposed visit to Pienma, I was much tempted to return across the pass and await there an assurance from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu that the magistrate would be deterred from crossing, as it appeared important that he should be prevented from taking any steps towards the administrative control of the country at the present juncture. I felt unable to do this, however, as my little party had been severely tried by the hardships of the journey, and a return of the rains would possibly have delayed my return to my post for an indefinite period, a risk which appeared inadvisable at the present time. I therefore took the road by the banks of the river, which reaches Tengyuch in seven marches after leaving Tengkeng. The weather was fortunately bright and clear during the march along the Salween, which was in its full glory of early summer, and, although intensely hot, a pleasant change after the hard journey in the mountains. The river still ran green and clear, flecked with foam as it formed in eddying rapids or rushed over its hidden rocks. On either side rose the forest-clad mountains, their luxuriant tropical green sprinkled with brilliant flowering shrubs and trees, whilst the whole was crowned by the snow-clad peaks stretching up to the...\n\n[2788 d-2]\n\nD\n\n326", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429057, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n6\n\nVotre Altesse ajoutait qu'elle allait demander des explications à l'Administration de l'Octroi.\n\nLes plaintes devenant plus nombreuses, le corps diplomatique a, de nouveau, examiné la question, et mes collègues me chargent de présenter à votre Altesse les observations et les déclarations suivantes:-\n\nLa perception de taxes particulières sur les marchandises d'importation étrangères munies de passes de transit est absolument contraire aux traités. Il est, en effet, nettement stipulé dans ceux-ci que ces marchandises ne peuvent être frappées d'aucune taxe intérieure de quelque nature que ce soit, et en quelque lieu que ce soit.\n\nLa taxe dite d'octroi\" perçue à Fengtaï est donc une innovation contraire aux traités, et par conséquent tout à fait illégale; le Gouvernement Impérial n'avait pas plus le droit de l'établir qu'il n'a celui de modifier l'une quelconque des stipulations des traités sans un accord préalable avec les Puissances. Le corps diplomatique est donc résolu à ne l'admettre à aucun degré.\n\nLe traitement appliqué, d'autre part, aux marchandises d'importation étrangère, destinées à l'intérieur même de la ville de Pékin, n'est pas moins illégal.\n\nEn ce qui les concerne, le corps diplomatique doit, tout d'abord, protester contre la défense qui a été faite au Commissaire des Douanes maritimes Impériales de Tien-tsin, de délivrer des passes de transit aux marchandises étrangères destinées à la ville même de Pékin. Cette défense ne peut se justifier en aucune manière; elle est contraire aux accords de la Chine avec les Puissances; il est donc nécessaire que le Gouvernement Impérial donne des ordres pour que les passes de transit réglementaires soient accordées aux marchandises étrangères adressées à Pékin.\n\nEn second lieu, il n'est pas moins certain que la taxe d'octroi\" illégale à Fengtai, l'est, au même degré, à Pékin même.\n\nToutefois, considérant que les droits perçus à l'entrée des murs de la ville ont pu être, en effet, tolérés, pour diverses raisons, depuis un certain temps, les représentants des Puissances ne se refuseraient pas à envisager la possibilité d'admettre sur ce point un arrangement avec le Gouvernement Impérial.\n\nCet arrangement serait établi sur les bases suivantes :\n\n1. La perception d'une taxe d'“octroi” sur les marchandises de provenance étrangère serait strictement limitée à la ville de Pékin, c'est-à-dire à l'étendue habitée entourée par les murailles.\n\n2. La taxe ne devrait pas dépasser le taux actuel de 3 pour cent ad valorem et devrait être calculée sur l'évaluation faite par les agents des douanes maritimes, telle qu'elle serait portée sur les passes de transit et suivant le cours du Haïkouan tael. Le calcul serait établi de telle façon que la taxe ne puisse jamais dépasser les trois cinquièmes des droits d'entrée actuellement payés par les marchandises étrangères aux douanes maritimes. La perception de la taxe ne pourrait avoir lieu qu'aux portes même de la ville.\n\n3. La taxe ne serait applicable qu'aux seuls commerçants.\n\n4. Les agents de l'Administration de l'Octroi devraient tenir pour exactes les déclarations portées sur les passes de transit. Leur rôle se bornerait à vérifier si les colis présentés sont bien ceux indiqués sur la passe de transit; ils devraient s'abstenir de toute perquisition intérieure.\n\n5. La concession ainsi faite par les Puissances ne pourrait, en aucun cas, être invoquée par le Gouvernement Impérial pour prétendre établir des taxes d'octroi ou autres quelconques aux marchandises étrangères sur aucun point de l'Empire.\n\n0\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[23858]\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[July 4]\n\nSECTION 4.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 4.) (No. 197.)\n\nPeking, June 15, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 193 of the 11th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul at Changsha commenting further upon the situation in that city, and stating that the condition of affairs there is even more threatening now than it was before the recent outbreak.\n\nMr. Hewlett is certainly very pessimistic as to the immediate future, but I cannot help feeling that the impression of his still recent experiences and his evident disappointment that the gentry were not more severely dealt with, and that it has proved impossible to take advantage of the disturbances to force a settlement of the questions to which he has devoted so much trouble and labour, incline him to take too gloomy a view of the situation. He is, perhaps, also rather prone to interfere in matters which concern the Chinese authorities rather than His Majesty's consulate.\n\nIt appears to me that, in regard to the masons' and carpenters' guilds, we should for the present rest content if there is no further interference with the construction of the new consulate.\n\nAs regards the pretensions of the gentry and provincial assembly, I would prefer to wait and see how the new governor will deal with these pretensions before endorsing all that Mr. Hewlett says on the subject. The provincial assembly is, I understand, to meet shortly in special session, and this may bring matters to a head, and show whether Hunan is to be governed from Peking through the governor or by the assembly and the gentry.\n\nIt is quite natural that alarmist rumours should continue to fly about in Changsha, and that the work of the gangs of bandits, who are still active in Hunan, should be exaggerated, but, to judge from the accounts received from other sources, I feel that Mr. Hewlett is hardly justified in writing of the \"present absence of any effective precautions on the part of the provincial authorities.\"\n\nOn receipt of Mr. Hewlett's telegram of the 10th June, which I repeated to you in my telegram No. 111 of the 11th June, I made private enquiries of the Wai-wu Pu whether they had any confirmatory information. Two days later they communicated to me the enclosed telegram from the governor, which would appear to prove that Mr. Hewlett's information had not been quite accurate, and that such troubles as had occurred had been adequately dealt with by the authorities.\n\nI have already stated my opinion that the penalties inflicted on the four members of the gentry should have been more in keeping with the forcible and outspoken indictment of their conduct in the memorial, and I took an opportunity of expressing this opinion yesterday at the Wai-wu Pu, when I suggested that a good way to make the gentry suffer would be to make them disgorge a portion of their ill-gotten gains to pay the indemnity claims. I explained that my object in making this suggestion was not vindictive; all we desired was that the Chinese Government should assure us that the penalties inflicted and the measures adopted would prove a sufficient deterrent to prevent similar outbreaks in the future.\n\nI added that it was a matter for regret that the second decree, replying to the protest of the assembly (see my despatch No. 193 of the 11th June), had not been published. Liu Yu-lin, with whom I was talking, replied that it was couched in the severest and most imperative terms, and would be sure to have a good effect. I replied that that only made it all the more regrettable that it had not been made public. I then proceeded to express the hope that in future our treaty rights would not be set at naught by the Changsha gentry as had hitherto been the case, and that when we applied to the Central Government for redress they would prove equal to giving us justice and not allow themselves to be openly defied by the gentry.\n\nMr. Liu begged me not to raise any question unnecessarily just at present, but to give the governor time to consolidate his position; as to future disturbances, he assured me that the Government felt that they were masters of the situation, and were equal to preventing any...\n\n[2827 d-4]\n\nB\n\n395", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nDear Mr. Grenfell,\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. C. S. Addis to Mr. Grenfell.\n\n31, Lombard Street, London, July 1, 1910.\n\nI HAVE your letter of the 20th June, in which you say you are informing your New York friends that the British, German, and French groups are not in favour of issuing any provincial loans.\n\nThe distinction we make is between loans \"authorised\" or \"sanctioned\" as opposed to loans \"guaranteed\" by the Chinese Government. We have no objection at all to issue provincial loans, the due repayment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the Imperial Chinese Government.\n\nIt is probably in this sense that you have communicated with your New York friends, in which case this letter requires no reply.\n\nYours truly,\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Grenfell to Mr. C. S. Addis.\n\nDear Mr. Addis,\n\n22, Old Broad Street, London, July 9, 1910.\n\nREFERRING to your letter of the 1st July, I beg to confirm on behalf of the American group of bankers that they do not care to entertain a proposition for any Chinese provincial loan unless bearing an unconditional Imperial guarantee, and believe it would be prejudicial to the interests of all concerned to have other groups entertain provincial loans unless so secured.\n\nI think this communication should make our action on behalf of the American conform with that which we understand is to be taken by your group and the German and French groups in such matters.\n\nI leave it to you to communicate the contents of this letter to our friends on the continent.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nE. C. GRENFELL.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nDear Mr. Grenfell,\n\nMr. C. S. Addis to Mr. Grenfell.\n\n31, Lombard Street, London, July 11, 1910.\n\nI AM glad to learn from your letter of the 9th instant that your American group is opposed to the issue of Chinese provincial loans except on condition that the repayment is secured by the unconditional guarantee of the Imperial Chinese Government.\n\nThis I believe to be in conformity with the views entertained by ourselves as well as by the French and German groups, to whom I am sending a copy of your letter.\n\nYours truly,\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[25949]\n\nCO 24838\n\n[July 18.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nREC?\n\nREG 12 AUG 10\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 18.)\n\n(No. 212.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 28, 1910.\n\nIN my despatch No. 98 of the 7th April I said that I had been given to understand that there was little probability of my colleagues taking any action in regard to the works of the Whangpoo Conservancy till after the receipt of the report on M. de Rijke's scheme, which is being drawn up by Sir J. Wolfe-Barry, Sir W. Matthews, and Mr. Lyster.\n\nI found, however, that I had been mistaken, as in the early days of May the Austrian Minister, in his capacity of doyen, informed me that he and the German Minister had now received instructions as to the line they were to pursue in negotiations with the Chinese Government for the completion of the Whangpoo Conservancy work, and enquired whether I was prepared to attend a meeting of the heads of missions principally interested in the question.\n\nAccordingly on the 31st ultimo the German, Japanese, French, and American Ministers and myself met, under the presidency of M. de Kuczynski, to discuss the question.\n\nI need not trouble you with full details of the lengthy discussion, but it soon became apparent that neither the German nor the Austrian Ministers was prepared either to adopt the de Rijke scheme in toto or to request the Chinese Government to complete the conservancy work to the extent and within the limits stated in the final protocol of 1901, which would have been the natural corollary to the note of the diplomatic body of the 14th December last.\n\nCount Rex explained that, in the opinion of his Government, it would not be correct to urge the Chinese Government to provide more funds, seeing that they had already paid the amounts stipulated in the 1905 agreement, but that the proper course to pursue was to endeavour by friendly means to prove to the Chinese that it was in their own interest to complete the works.\n\nM. de Kuczynski said that he had received similar instructions, with this difference, that his Government held that if the friendly representations failed, it would be necessary to request the Chinese Government to return to the conditions of the 1901 protocol and contribute to the carrying on of the works until their final completion.\n\nCount Rex then admitted that his instructions also authorised him to join in such action, if absolutely necessary and as a last resort.\n\nAll the representatives appeared to agree that, in the present state of the works, it was impossible to consider the Whangpoo Conservancy as completed, and it was, therefore, decided that the first thing to do was to ascertain from the Chinese Government (1) whether they regarded the works as completed or not; and (2) if not, what works they considered must still be executed. This would be done by requesting the Chinese Government to communicate to us officially the report of the Chinese commissioner, to whom I referred in the last paragraph of my despatch No. 98 of the 7th April.\n\nI pointed out, however, that this report, if received, would probably be of a technical nature, and deal with subjects on which we should be incompetent to pass judgment without further expert advice, and it appeared to me that we might equally well wait for the report of the three great English authorities at present under preparation.\n\nIt then appeared that my German and Austrian colleagues were not prepared to attach much weight to this report, for the absurd reason that it would not be the result of international collaboration, and had not been drawn up at the request of either the diplomatic or consular body or of the conservancy board.\n\nThe German Minister held that, if necessary, the Chinese report should be submitted to an international expert commission on which Germany would insist on having a delegate, and this delegate was evidently to be the technical attaché to the German Consulate-General, who has, I believe, been the prime mover in all the German...\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2827 »-1]\n\n476\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429320, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "12\n\nAs regards the present letter of the consular body, the draft of it has been many times revised and rejected by myself and my German and American colleagues, and it is only on the understanding that each of us would give our own views in forwarding it to our respective ministers that we consented to the letter going forward in its present form.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCO\n\n56\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[28702]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n20647\n\n[August 8.]\n\nArai SEP 10] SECTION 5.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nMinute by Mr. Max Müller.\n\nI AM of opinion that any alteration of the constitution of the mixed court as at present existing is inadvisable.\n\nIt appears to me that the more important question of the two raised by the senior foreign interest.' I agree with the consul is the interpretation to be given to a Dean's interpretation of rule 3 of the Mixed Court Rules of 1869, and consider that the mere fact of a Chinese subject accused of a criminal offence being in the employ of a foreigner does not entitle the foreigner to claim that his interests are involved, nor does it give his consul the right to demand that his assessor should take the case instead of the assessor of the day. The same principle that foreign employment does not necessarily mean a foreign interest is disclosed in rule 2 of the provisional rules for defining the respective jurisdiction of the mixed courts which were agreed to by the consular body and the taotai on the 10th June, 1902, and approved by the diplomatic body on the 28th June, 1902.\n\nIn a criminal case in which there is no doubt that a foreign interest is really involved, e.g., where the complainant is himself a foreigner, the assessor of the consulate concerned should be allowed to take his seat on the bench to watch the case, or it might even be advisable that a special day should be fixed for the hearing, and that in any case it is inadvisable to the said assessor should sit with the magistrate.\n\ndisplace the assessor of the day.\n\nI gather that some of the consuls desire that in any criminal case in which one of their nationals is indirectly interested, even when both parties are Chinese, the assessor of the consulate concerned is entitled to displace the assessor of the day and take the case. I need hardly point out that this would impede the heavy work of the court, and lead to endless confusion and interference with business.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER,\n\nPeking, April 1, 1910.\n\n0\n\n(No. 333.) Sir,\n\nSir A. Nicolson to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received August 8.)\n\nSt. Petersburgh, August 5, 1910. I HAVE the honour to inform you that the following communiqué appeared in the \"Official Messenger\" of yesterday :-\n\n\"On the 17th (30th) July of this year an agreement with regard to the regulations for the navigation of the River Sungari was concluded at Peking between the Russian chargé d'affaires and the Wai-wu Pu. This agreement has now been approved by the Imperial Government, and the chargé d'affaires has been authorised to draw up a new Act, after which the regulations will come into force, replacing the temporary regulations which expired on the 18th (31st) July, 1910. The new regulations, in drafting which the technical delegates of the Ministry of Finance and of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company have taken part, fully take into consideration the rights and interests of Russian trade, and at the same time safeguard the lawful rights of China. The fundamental principle of the shipping regulations now to be enforced by mutual consent is the preservation for Russian trade of those privileges on the whole Manchurian frontier which were guaranteed by former treaties, privileges which were not sufficiently recognised in the temporary regulations issued last year by the Chinese authorities. The shipping regulations will be binding for three years.\"\n\nIn commenting on the above, the \"Bourse Gazette\" gives what purports to be the substance of the new agreement. It says that the Chinese Government recognise that Chinese vessels as well as Russian vessels shall henceforth be liable to shipping dues; that the Chinese Government falls in with the Russian view that only those goods coming from within 50 versts of the Chinese frontier and destined for places within 50 versts of the Russian frontier shall be exempt from duty. Lastly, that a reduction of nearly 30 per cent. has been effected in the duty on grain imported into Harbin, and that a similar reduction of duty is to be granted on beans and bean husks. The \"Novoe Vremya,\" in a long article, laments that the Russian Government have not seen fit to publish the text of the agreement. It is inclined to believe that the agreement is more favourable to China than to Russia, but it acknowledges that it is some satisfaction that the Chinese Government has abandoned the standpoint that all Russo-Chinese treaties were abrogated by the treaty of Portsmouth. The article concludes by dwelling on the exceptional position in which Russia stands towards China, both geographically and historically. It mentions the attempts which have been made, both in the question of the Harbin settlements and in that of the Chinchow-Aigun Railway, to sow dissension between the two Powers, and says that if the Chinese Government, in spite of all possible incitements, has now come to a sensible point of view, Russia will welcome her decision whole-heartedly.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. NICOLSON.\n\n[2862 h-b]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "152\n\n12\n\nof the situation which seem to call for special consideration. For the purpose of conciseness and lucidity, I propose to deal with them one by one.\n\nLand Tenure.-According to my Russian colleague, land can now be leased by private parties in any part of the new town. This would appear to mark a new departure, since, in the past, very little land west of the Novotorgovaia Ulitza has been leased to persons unconnected with the railway and it is possible that even now a high price would be asked. In Pristan no restriction has ever been placed upon lease by private parties of Russian nationality.\n\nThe full term of the railway company's lease is eighty years subject to the right of the Chinese to buy out the company after thirty-six years. The initial cost of the railway was large, and it may be assumed that the total sum which China would be called upon to find in order to repurchase the line and its appurtenances would be a very heavy one. The question which, it would seem, is of more practical importance at the present moment is that of long leases. The railway was completed in 1903 and the longest lease which is now therefore obtainable is one of seventy-three years. Lease in perpetuity, which is common to other treaty ports in China, is not, under present circumstances, procurable in Harbin. Sooner or later, more especially if Harbin continues to attract foreigners other than Russian as a place of residence and trade, this matter must, it would seem, call for adjustment. It would, indeed, appear that it is one which cannot even now be ignored in any attempt to form a just estimate of the present situation and to devise a plan for its amelioration or amendment. The question has not escaped the attention of the Russian authorities, though I gathered in conversation with General Horvat that it was not one which he considered gave much concern to Russian subjects, and he did not appear to think that the Chinese Government would, on the expiration of the company's lease, be able to call upon private property owners to remove themselves without further ado. My Russian colleague, however, seems to view the matter in a more serious light, and admitted that the rights of private parties under the 1896 agreement were not adequately protected. It is of course now no secret that at the time when that agreement was concluded Russia looked forward to the inclusion of Manchuria in the Russian Empire. The present anomalous state of affairs—that is, a treaty port which carries with it no right to lease land in perpetuity—is the direct result of China's action in declaring Harbin an open port, without regard to (or, possibly, with a wilful disregard of) the conditions existing in 1905. That which is of chief concern to us is the protection of British interests. Owing to the development of the bean industry our trade in Harbin has already assumed large proportions, and the day may—probably will—come when British firms will desire to lease land and build their own houses. They will wish to do this on terms not less advantageous than those obtainable in other treaty ports, and it is not altogether easy to see how this can be done. Three suggestions have occurred to me, which I venture to set down; they are:-\n\n1. That the Chinese authorities should counterseal the leases given by the railway company to British subjects and guarantee their continuance in perpetuity after the expiration of the company's holding.\n\n2. That the Chinese Government should recognise the present railway area at Harbin or a reduced portion thereof as a Russian concession or settlement, leaving it to us to obtain from the Russian authorities terms equally favourable to those granted in British concessions in China.\n\n3. That the Russian Government should give a guarantee that, on the expiration of their terms of lease through the lapse of the railway company's holding, British subjects shall not be called upon to vacate their properties without due compensation.\n\nI fully recognise that, as regards the first two suggestions, it may be extremely difficult to obtain the consent of the Chinese Government to either one or the other, since both will give to foreigners the right of residence and trade in perpetuity in a considerable area, and it has occurred to me that this consideration may probably account in no small degree for the objection which the Chinese are generally thought to entertain towards any scheme of internationalisation. At the same time, the fact stands out that we are faced with the problem of a treaty port which does not give the usual treaty privileges. The question then arises whether, should it be decided that an agreement with Russia in regard to municipal taxation is desirable, the third suggestion or something of the same nature might not be the best solution,\n\n13\n\nand possibly have the effect of compelling the Chinese to come to some arrangement satisfactory to all parties.\n\nThe Control of the Railway Administration.-No further steps having been taken towards the elaboration of the detailed regulations promised in the May agreement of last year, things are, as previously stated, very much in statu quo ante. In other words, the extensive powers which the railway company possesses under the 1907 regulations still very largely obtain. It is generally felt that the authority claimed by the railway company is greater than a private company can properly be expected to exercise, and there can be no doubt that the position assumed by this company has been keenly resented by the United States. It would seem, therefore, that, if the Russian Government sincerely desires an adjustment of the anomalous state of things now existing, its chances of success will be considerably enhanced by relegating the railway company to a subordinate position.\n\nThe Police.—The police, as before said, are at present under the control of the railway company; should, however, a form of municipal administration become possible to which all parties could assent, it would be more satisfactory if the force necessary for the policing of the municipal area, whatever its designation, could be placed either under the control of the municipal administration or of a representative of the Russian Government attached to the Russian consulate-general—preferably, in any case as regards supreme direction, I am at present inclined to think the latter. As things now stand, the chances, as previously stated, of unwarrantable interference on the part of the police with foreigners who have their own national representatives in Harbin are not great. Cases in which foreigners are concerned will, however, sometimes arise when the services of the police, if order is to be maintained, must be requisitioned. Instances in point are street brawls and robberies; only a few days ago the manager of the Shanghai Life Insurance Company informed me that his office had been forcibly entered during the previous night, his documents disarranged, and some articles stolen, I did not see any objection to addressing an informal note to my Russian colleague, requesting him, under the reservation contained in your despatch No. 10 of the 27th May, to notify the police authorities in the hope that it might be possible to secure the apprehension of the delinquents.\n\nTo summarise and recapitulate, Sir John Jordan in his despatch No. 461, Confidential, of the 10th December last, to which reference has already been made, suggested that, if British subjects were willing to accept the Russian municipal regulations provided they could obtain a guarantee that they would be fairly taxed and not subjected to annoyance at the hands of the Russian police, it might be better to obtain safeguards on these points than risk the conclusion of an arrangement between Russia and Japan on the basis of the former's original interpretation of article 6 of the agreement\n\nof 1896.\n\nMy Russian colleague has on more than one occasion expressed the opinion that the best hope of a solution of the present difficulty is for the Powers, in the first instance, to come to an agreement with Russia. Whether an arrangement which would satisfy all the Powers is or is not possible, I am naturally not in a position to say, and it may be considered that a better prospect of success is offered by an agreement between ourselves and Russia, irrespective of others. The Russians are, I am disposed to think, anxious for our good-will, and, if due regard be paid to actual facts, an understanding of some kind with Russia seems the only feasible plan. If, too, favourable terms can be obtained at Harbin, they might—temporarily, at any rate—be applied mutatis mutandis in the other Russian railway settlements, and should ensure us the grant of not less advantageous conditions in the Japanese settlements along the South Manchurian Railway. Harbin is, as has been previously stated by the acting consul-general at Mukden, to all intents and purposes a Russian town, and Russian interests are largely predominant; while the policy of the Chinese would seem to be now what it has been in the past. On the surface, it lacks consistency—au fond, its aim and object is, I venture to think, to make use of the other Powers against the Russians with the full determination of giving to none more than it can possibly help.\n\nBritish interest in Harbin, at the moment of writing, are represented by Messrs. Samuel, McGregor and Co., Messrs. Craig and Co., the China Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Shanghai Life Insurance Company, and, in Fu Chia Tien, the British-American Tobacco Company. To give adequate protection to British subjects and British interests is for us the principal consideration, and it is for this reason that I venture to lay stress on certain points which cannot, it would appear, be left out of consideration in any proposed arrangement with Russia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 568, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "2. R\n\nStables\n\nWe have never heard of this pensioner; we can therefore tell you nothing as to the case of\n\nIf I may suggest, if the suggestion in his letter is carried out, it would be better to do it the other way, i.e. for us to give him a supply of the usual pension form which he could fill up, get attested by the local manager of the Pacific Phosphate Company, who could pay and send the form to the Colonial Office.\n\nfor Collins\n\nHas\n\nHaf\n\n4/4/10\n\na retired warder, blue book 1908 drawing, according to the 3/80 rate, a pension of $319.20 a year. He entered the service in 1892 and is clearly entitled to it given that Nauru is a gold standard country, which I presume is indisputable.\n\nThe suggestion, as above, seems sound. I shall have to deal with it on those lines, making any necessary arrangements with the Pacific Phosphate Company.\n\nR.2.C.1119\n\nNauru, South Pacific\n\nFebruary 1910.\n\nCO.056\n\n29 R 10\n\n551\n\nJohann Alexander Straube, late of His Majesty's Civil Service List, in the Colony of Hong Kong, and now in the Employment of the Pacific Phosphate Company, at Nauru Island, and holding their Office at No. 27 Leaden Hall Street, London, and in the absence of His Britannic Majesty's Consulate at this Island, I had the honour to inquire whether, and how, I can get my pension paid here, at Nauru, said Island being under the jurisdiction of the Imperial German Government, and having a Bazio currency.\n\nIn the meantime, I should like it arranged that, so long as I remain in the Service of the said Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd. at Nauru Island, the Manager of the said Company shall draw my pension at London and forward it to their Office at Nauru, to be paid to me here according to the rate of 3/8, shilling to the Dollar, from 25th December 1909 including, and if it is advisable to pay me in quarterly payments.\n\nThe Manager of the said Company will witness and testify that I am still alive, and in the Company's Service.\n\nSignature of the Company's Manager.\n\nIn the meanwhile, I hope to hear from your Hon. Office, as soon as convenient.\n\nTo the Honourable,\n\nThe Secretary of State\n\nFor the Colonies\n\nDowning Street\n\nLondon,\n\nDhauke", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432508, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## most important firms in Germany, has been approached by the committee as follows:-\n\n256\n\n*As you will see from our prospectus, our company has its own business houses of every branch in every town in Japan. We should, therefore, be greatly pleased if you would form a business connection with us and make us your sole agents for the sale of your goods in Japan and Korea. We are ready to pay all orders cash, and would give you unlimited credit. Of course, you can make the closest inquiries in Tokyo and in Hamburg, at the Japanese Consulate, and to the German-Japanese Trade Exchange Committee. We can only assure you that it would be much more advantageous for your firm to be connected with us than with any other firm in Japan, and you would thereby increase the sale of your goods in Japan twofold\".\n\nWith regard to the promises of cash payment, unlimited credit and doubled sales, it is to be noted that hitherto the export trade in Japan has been carried on with cash payments; but the import trade always on long credit, which during the past five years has brought ruin on quite a number of German firms and caused other heavy losses. Any inquiry made in Japan from any trustworthy German source of information as to the Credit-giving capacity of the new Company would elicit the reply that there is neither a foreign nor Japanese bank here which would undertake to guarantee either the millions of capital of the company or its credit. As to Count Okuma, who is its President, he is the same Count Okuma who recently brought forward the famous plan for establishing a closer connection between the English and Japanese business worlds for the purpose of excluding the dangerous third competitor, namely, Germany.\n\n(We repeat, the above should be taken in conjunction with \"The Eastern-Asia Co-operative Association\" page 104) **Editor.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 355, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**confirms the opinion stated in my despatch No. 30, that the recent Russo-Japanese agreement—whatever its present advantages, and upon these I shall presently touch—is merely a temporary expedient, and cannot endure as a lasting compact.** It is interesting also to recall the extract from an article which appeared earlier in the year in the \"Nova Zizn,\" and which was embodied in my despatch No. 11 of the 11th May last. The writer, whose theme was the recently-established Russo-Japanese society at Harbin and the movement towards a rapprochement between the two nations, frankly admitted that the Japanese were more thorough and more fanatically patriotic than the Russians, and would get the better of the bargain. My experience in Northern Manchuria, which will soon have extended over a year, has led me to think that this apprehension is well founded.\n\nThe Russian, though not wanting in foresight and mental capacity generally, lacks application, and his practical ability is not commensurate with his powers of thought and conception. Herein would appear to lie his chief danger in respect of an alliance concluded between him and the Japanese with a view to protecting both against what was held to be a common peril, namely, the loss or curtailment of their vested and hard-earned interests in Manchuria. The Russian is not so thorough and painstaking as the Japanese, and though he has immense resources and his position in the Far East will be materially strengthened by the construction of the Amur Railway and the improved fortification of Vladivostock, he will need to spare no precautions and to encourage and develop a spirit of thoroughness and a capacity for application if he does not wish his present bargain with his recent enemy, however temporary he may intend or desire it to be, to ensure eventually to his own disadvantage.\n\nIn no other place in which I have lived have I experienced the same difficulty in securing the performance of any matter, however simple, and whether of a business or ordinary nature as in Harbin: procrastination is the order of the day and efficiency a quality which is seldom encountered. From foreigners of all descriptions and nationalities, one invariably hears the same disparaging remark—\"the Russian is quite useless.\" I have had no close acquaintance with the Japanese, but as far as I can judge of their work in Manchuria, there can be no doubt as to their efficiency or progress.\n\nTheir position in this province—already very strong by reason of their hold on the leased territory of Kuantang, their possession of the South Manchurian and Antung-Mukden railways, and their interest in the Kirin-Chiang Ch'un line, which, if the rails are of a different standard weight, is of the same gauge as the South Manchurian Railway—has been still further strengthened by the final and definite absorption of Corea. The north and north-eastern portion of Corea borders upon Chientao and Hunchun, and my confidential despatches Nos. 19 and 28 of the 24th July and 13th September last, reporting on these districts, made mention of their utility as a striking base against Vladivostock, Novo Kievsk, and Possiet, and also referred to the number of Coreans which was moving into them from across the border.\n\nNow that Corea is part of the Japanese Empire, the consolidation of Japan's position along the Tiumen will be facilitated, and it may be anticipated that the mantle of protection which she has hitherto thrown over Corean subjects resident in China will be extended. If newspaper report speaks true, this matter has, in fact, already demanded attention, and the instruction issued by the Manchurian Viceroy to his subordinates is to mark time and endeavour to avoid giving rise to any question pending the consideration of the subject by the Chinese and Japanese Governments. The Japanese are not likely to fail to take advantage of any circumstance which will increase their influence in Manchuria, and which will furnish them with another weapon against China as occasion serves.\n\nEpitomising the foregoing remarks, the position reached is that the Japanese and Russians, the former by its annexation of Corea and the latter by its military measures, have shown that they are both fully alive to the necessity for strengthening their position in and in the neighbourhood of Manchuria, and that the superior qualities of the Japanese provide a distinct element of danger for Russia in her recent compact with her former foe, against which every precaution should for her own protection be taken. It will be useful, before proceeding to deal with other factors in the situation, to give specific instances which occasion and confirm the apprehension that the Japanese and not the Russians will be those to extract the greatest benefit from the arrangement which has been made between them.\n\nIn recent numbers of the \"Manchuria Daily News\" have contained the statement that the Japanese Government proposes next year to open a consulate at Aigun. In conversation with my Japanese colleague, I enquired whether this report was correct. Mr. Kawakami did not himself see that any good purpose could be served by opening a consulate at Aigun, which lies on the opposite bank of the river to, and about 35 versts (23 miles) below, Blagovestchensk. His Government had, however, approached the Chinese Government with a request to be allowed to station a consular officer at Taheiho, but the Chinese Government had declined to accede to it. Taheiho, not Aigun—vide my despatch No. 38 of the 5th instant—is the place where trade centres, and in indicating it for a consular post, the Japanese authorities show that they are fully acquainted with local conditions.\n\nThere are, according to the Japanese consul-general, 200 Japanese subjects at Taheiho, which is an Imperial Maritime Customs barrier, and 500 at Blagovestchensk. A consul at Taheiho could also keep watch and ward over his nationals resident in the Russian town across the river. In further conversation with my colleague a few days back, he introduced the subject of the delays and difficulties encountered at Harbin by passengers from Europe bound for the south—we had both of us the previous evening experienced the inconveniences of the present system or lack of system—and stated that he contemplated writing to the South Manchurian Railway Company, and urging them to send an official to Harbin to render assistance to southward-bound passengers and accompany them on their journey to Chang Ch'un.\n\nIt seems unlikely that two years ago, for example, the Japanese authorities would have thought such a step either politic or advisable, though it must not be forgotten that the European expresses as far as Ch'ang Ch'un are now under \"wagons-lits\" management. Again, report has it that the Japanese are moving into North Manchuria in considerably greater numbers than previously, and a matter of no little interest—particularly in view of the explanation of its cause—is the recent establishment at Dairen of a branch of the Russian firm of Tchurin, a large general store established at Harbin, Vladivostock, Blagovestchensk, Nikolsk, Larbarovsk, and other places.\n\nSpeaking with a member of the local branch of the firm a short time back, he told me that the firm, which in one year, I think it was last year, had a turn-over of 2,500,000 roubles at Harbin and 4,000,000 at Vladivostock, was about to open at Dairen, where the first steamer bringing a large consignment of goods for the firm to that port was then due. He was himself bound for Dairen to make all the necessary arrangements, and their intention was, if possible, to import all their goods for Harbin viâ Dairen, and not viâ Vladivostock, as hitherto. The present was a trial shipment, and the reason for the change was the protracted delays and numerous difficulties, some of which he enumerated, with which they had to contend at the latter port.\n\nThe step contemplated by Messrs. Tchurin is of no little significance, and the result, if the venture prove successful, will be this: a Japanese port and transportation over two lines of rail, Japanese and Russian, necessitating a transfer of the goods from the Japanese to the Russian line at Chang Ch'un give greater facilities for the importation of goods to a Russian firm doing a large business at Harbin than a Russian port with direct Russian railway communication to the place of destination. The distance by rail from Vladivostock to Harbin is 483 miles and from Dairen 585, and I understand that, according to present arrangements, freights from Europe to the latter are somewhat higher than to the former.\n\nLastly, it is worthy of note that the recent railway agreement concluded at St. Petersburgh at which through rates were arranged on certain classes of goods transported over the South Manchurian and Chinese Eastern railways took, according to a statement attributed to Mr. Tanaka, traffic manager of the South Manchurian line and a member of the conference, and published in the \"Manchuria Daily News,\" no account of pulse and grain. I do not doubt that the report is correct, since grains and beans are the chief articles of transport on these railways, and the Russian authorities, in view of the better railway and shipping facilities afforded by the Japanese, would have good reason to fear that a through rate on beans would divert considerable quantities of this commodity from the Chinese Eastern to the South Manchurian Railway, while, as regards grain products, the Russians have no desire to encourage at present the export of wheat either to the south of Manchuria or abroad.\n\nThey wish to foster the local Russian flour mills, and there is already one competitor in the south, namely, the Japanese mill at Tiehling. I do not desire to exaggerate the importance of the above instances of Japanese progressiveness, some of which may not be thought of any great intrinsic moment; but a straw shows which way the wind blows, and is of greater or less consequence according to the weather which general conditions may incline one to expect.\n\nHaving now given some general consideration to the Russo-Japanese agreement of July last and its possible consequences as regards the future relations of one party to the other, it is proposed to invite attention to its bearing upon the attitude of both\n\nPage 353", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Sir J. Jordan to Acting Consul Sly.\n\nPeking, January 14, 1911\n\nMR. MAX MÜLLER forwarded to the Foreign Office a copy of your despatch No. 13 of the 3rd July last, enclosing your report on the railway settlement and the municipal administration at Harbin. It will be seen from the enclosed despatch from Sir Edward Grey that His Majesty's Government favour the conclusion of a reasonable understanding with Russia, which the growing commercial interests of Great Britain at Harbin and elsewhere in the railway zone appear to render desirable, and I am authorised to negotiate an agreement with the Russian Minister for the payment of municipal taxes by British subjects, provided that such payment is accompanied by guarantees as to expenditure and on other points in regard to which it may appear during the negotiations desirable that such guarantees should be obtained. I suggested to M. Korostovetz that the negotiations might be conducted in the first instance between you and your Russian colleague. His Excellency having no objection to this course, I have to request that you will approach M. Poppe in this sense. Copies of my correspondence with the Russian Minister are enclosed herein.\n\nI have no information as to the instructions which have been furnished to the Russian consul-general beyond that contained in M. Korostovetz's letter of the 6th January, but I understand that his Excellency does not object in principle to giving reasonable guarantees as to the expenditure of the taxes levied from His Majesty's subjects. I understand from your report that British firms would not object to paying taxes of an equitable and proper nature, but that the present conditions on which the Russian railway settlements are administered would not in all respects protect them from exposure to unjust and vexatious treatment.\n\nSo far as I am able to judge from the comparisons you draw, the present land, building, and lodging taxes and the annual licences do not appear to be unduly heavy, and might be agreed to, provided the Russians meet us on other points. I agree with you that the taxes on factories and commercial undertakings, if inevitable, should be consistent. It is evident that the method by which an estimate of the amount of Messrs. Craig and Co.'s business was arrived at might lead to grave abuses and to unfair discrimination against particular firms. Your suggestion that taxation should be based on an examination of the firm's books seems to be a practical one for meeting the difficulty.\n\nI note that you state in your report that the powers of control of the municipal administration over the regularity of commercial dealings are fully set forth in article 2 (i) of the 1907 regulations, and you add that the authority given is obviously very extensive, and is, as far as foreigners are concerned, in certain respects entirely inadmissible. This point is only very briefly alluded to in the summary of the regulations which was forwarded to His Majesty's Legation from Mukden. It will be well to bear in mind the general principle which we always uphold, that there shall be no taxation without representation, and, in this connection, you might, perhaps, suggest to your Russian colleague the expediency of having foreign interests represented at least on the taxation committee, if not on the municipal council. Foreigners are not excluded either from voting or from personal representation on the municipal councils in British concessions nor in the Russian concession at Tien-tsin, and the admission of a similar principle at Harbin might go some way towards mitigating the objectionable features to which you allude. At the same time, I realise that the election of British subjects, either to the assembly of delegates or to the municipal council, is improbable in present circumstances, and it would, therefore, be well to obtain an undertaking that His Majesty's consular officers should be officially notified of any proposed new tax or municipal regulation. A further safeguard might be found in your suggestion that British subjects should have a general right to carry any legitimate objection to their consul. This would seem to be a corollary of the recognition by the Russian authorities of the principle of extra-territoriality as stated in your report.\n\nIn view of the present anomalous position and of the uncertainty as to the future ownership of the area held by the railway, the Russians might profess themselves unable or unwilling to give any definite pledges in regard to British subjects who may establish themselves there. For similar reasons, it is not desirable that you should take any initiative in invoking the authority of the Chinese. It might be possible to embody a clause by which the Russian authorities would give assurances that they will do what in them lies to protect British subjects against being called upon to evacuate their property without compensation upon the expiration of the company's lease. In any event, I see no reason to anticipate that the Russian authorities will extend less equitable treatment to British subjects in this respect than that accorded to foreigners, for instance, by the regulations of the Russian concession at Tien-tsin.\n\nThe question of the status of the police may possibly require consideration. In the event of British subjects requiring their services or seeking redress against their action, it would obviously be more convenient that the control of the police should be vested in the Russian consulate-general than in the railway administration.\n\nI have indicated the important points to which your attention should be directed in your discussions with the Russian consul-general, and I have endeavoured to give an outline of the conditions on which I should be prepared to conclude an arrangement with the Russian Minister. Your knowledge of local conditions and the opportunities which you have of consulting British firms on the spot will very likely suggest to you other considerations which I am not able fully to appreciate at the distance. You should keep me informed of any developments of interest which may occur in the course of your discussions, and you should use your discretion in referring doubtful points to me. Any observations which you may wish to make on the subject of this despatch will have my careful attention.\n\nI need only add that if a satisfactory arrangement is concluded, the intention is that it should be applied **mutatis mutandis** to the other Russian railway settlements in Manchuria.\n\nThere should, of course, be an understanding that in the event of more favourable treatment being accorded at any time to the citizens and subjects of other Powers, British subjects will be entitled to benefit by it.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Page 437", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434604, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# Enclosure 5 in No. 2\n\n## Consul-General Jamieson to Acting Governor-General of the Liang Kuang\n\nCanton, November 30, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer to certain red notes which have recently been exchanged between us, having for their subject the refusal of your Excellency to countersign certain passports issued by this office in respect of British subjects, whose ancestors were Chinese.\n\nYou say that, according to certain Chinese laws of nationality, promulgated this year, the basis of nationality is the blood of the parents, and that, should such be Chinese, the offspring, even if born on British soil, cannot divest themselves of their ancestors' nationality. It is sought, apparently, thereby to lay down a principle which, in so far as international law is concerned, is to me at least novel, and is not one which, I venture to think, will be endorsed by the treaty Powers interested. Your Excellency must be aware that no internal legislation can override the provisions of a treaty, and China, having bound herself in several treaties to allow the subjects of the Powers concerned to travel to all parts of the interior under passports issued by their consuls and countersigned by the local authorities, she is bound to conform with the obligation thereunder imposed. It is for the Power on whose territory children are born to say on what terms they shall be considered as nationals; the ipse dixit of the Chinese Government cannot deprive it of this undoubted and well-recognised right. And even were this not the case, surely any new legislation of the kind should have been communicated to the parties interested—Government and people—and made the subject of international negotiation. So far as I am aware China has not approached, through the proper channels, any of the British colonies which may be affected by these novel proposals, and they cannot therefore be expected to recognise them.\n\nMoreover, for years past in every part of China such passports have been countersigned without question, and this consulate-general certainly has received no notification of any intended change of procedure, your Excellency's predecessor continuing throughout the year to countersign as before. It may be competent for China to enact that, henceforward, all those of her subjects, having left their country of origin, and desirous of changing their nationality abroad, must give prior notice to the local authorities, but under no circumstances can it be admitted that notice of this kind shall have a retrospective effect, or that it applies to those born in foreign countries.\n\nIn the case of the three British subjects whose passports I had the honour to transmit for counter-signature, I have made careful inquiry into the antecedents of the parties, and I find that:\n\n| Name | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Yuan Chin-hua (Un Kam-wa) | was born in Hong Kong of parents of Chinese origin, who were themselves British subjects, having been likewise both born in that colony. |\n| Yu Tao-sheng (Yu To-sang) | is a British subject, born in Hong Kong of Chinese parents, subjects of the Emperor of China, who has complied with all colonial regulations as to assumption of British nationality by registration. |\n| Li Keng (Li Kang) | is a Chinese, who has been naturalised as a British subject for some eighteen years; but, as the British Government are not prepared to extend protection to naturalised British subjects of Chinese descent on return to their country of origin, his passport has been cancelled. |\n\nThe two former passports I accordingly return, with yet another request that they be countersigned in accordance with the terms of the existing treaty between Great Britain and China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n## Enclosure 6 in No. 2\n\n### Acting Governor-General of the Liang Kuang to Consul-General Jamieson\n\nCanton, December 16, 1909 (Hsüan T'ung, 1st year, 11th moon, 4th day).\n\n(Translation.)\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, returning two travelling passports for sealing, belonging to Yuan Chin-hua and Yu Tao-sheng, both of whom you say were born in Hong Kong. I subsequently also received your two notes forwarding passports in favour of Li Jui-Kuang and Ku Yen-ch'en, which you asked might be sealed.\n\nThe Naturalisation Regulations have been promulgated by Imperial edict, and all Chinese, irrespective of birth-place, who may wish to change their nationality, must, in obedience to these regulations, report to their local authority, who will obtain the consent of the Board of the Interior before such change of nationality can become effective.\n\nThere is no record of such a report having been made by Yuan Chin-hua and the others, and I am therefore unable to take action in their case which would be contrary to the regulations.\n\nTo put the matter succinctly, the issuing of regulations is a prerogative of the Chinese Government, and I have no option but to obey them without making the smallest alteration. This kind of limited authority is a matter with which you must be fully acquainted.\n\nI have accordingly the honour to return herewith the four passports in question.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of Governor-General.)\n\n## Enclosure 7 in No. 2\n\n### Mr. Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan\n\nShanghai, February 18, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge your despatch of the 11th January asking for my opinion as to the legality of the action of Viceroy Yuan of Canton in refusing to countersign passports granted to British subjects of Chinese descent, under circumstances detailed in Consul-General Jamieson's despatch of the 17th December last, and the enclosures thereto.\n\nHis Excellency Yuan's contention is that a person of Chinese race cannot, under any circumstances, be or become a foreign subject save by the permission of the local authorities of the real or supposed ancestral home of the person in question.\n\nThe new naturalisation laws referred to in the despatches under consideration have not been forwarded to me, and I have no knowledge of their contents, beyond the statement in Viceroy Yuan's despatch to Mr. Jamieson on the 2nd November, 1909, that \"by the custom of China, the nationality of an individual is determined by that of his blood relations, and a son or grandson cannot change the nationality enjoyed by his father or his ancestors.”\n\nConsul-General Jamieson says that the contention of the Chinese Government, as stated by Viceroy Yuan, is that \"Chinese blood\" imposes on those in whose veins it flows Chinese nationality in perpetuity.\n\nBy Roman law \"status was determined by descent (jus sanguinis). The question whether a man was or was not a free man and a citizen of Rome, depended on the condition of his parents; Roman law, however, even under the Empire, would not have claimed, or allowed, as citizens the descendants of a civis Romanus, who had voluntarily joined and become incorporated with a Barbarian horde.\n\nAccording to the feudal rule, once universal in Europe, nationality depended in all cases upon the place of birth (jus soli).\n\nThe common law of England held all persons born under the allegiance and none others, with the apparent exception of children of Ambassadors, to be British subjects.\n\nThe strict English rule has, however, by statute, been modified and brought into agreement with the principle that the nationality, while depending primarily upon the place of birth, can on certain statutory requirements and formalities being observed, be acquired or lost, changed or resumed, at will.\n\nAs to the nationality of children born of the subjects of one Power within the territory of another, the Code Napoleon provided that a child should follow the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# \ncrossed, and news has recently been received that an outpost has been established as far west as Rima, the actual limit of that shadowy border-land which has been dimly outlined as the possible boundary which shall eventually divide Thibet and China from the British outposts of Assam and Upper Burmah. In the course of this advance the sovereignty of China was so definitely asserted in Thibet, that the Dalai Lama abandoned his capital early in the year, and an immediate attempt was made to pursue a similar policy along the whole frontier to the very southern limit of Keng-Hung. Two active and capable young lieutenants of the brothers Chao were then ordered to Yunnan, one Keng Pao-kuei as tuotai of the western marchies at Tengyueli and one to the little town of A-tun-tze, in that corner of the province of Kam, now generally known as Thibetan Yunnan, whilst a third was sent from Yunnan-fu to the Sipsong Panna or Southern Shan States of China, thus completing the chain of officers who could be trusted to pursue a forward and consecutive policy in all matters which affected China's western frontier.\n\nIt will be remembered that, as Szechuan was divided from Thibet by a series of semi-independent States under their own kings, princes, or \"tussu,\" so Yunnan is flanked by a band of tribal States inhabited by Lisus, Kachins, Was and Shans, the last of whom are numerically most important, and, although in a degenerate condition, are the relics of the old and powerful Nanchao Kingdom still holding a chain of fertile and prosperous valleys adjoining the Shan States of Burmah now under British rule. It will be remembered also that, of the 600 miles of actual frontier between Burmah and Yunnan, little more than half has actually been accepted by the Chinese Government, about 150 miles of still undelimited boundary lying to the north of Manung Pum along the clearly-marked though partially unexplored range of mountains known as the Irrawady-Salween divide, whilst the southern unrecognised tract lies to the east of the Wa country from Nalawt-Pangsang to the Namting River. After a joint examination of the northern undelimited stretch by the late Consul Litton and the Taotai Shih Hung-shao, in which it was found that the Chinese had not at any time carried their administration to the west of the great range, Sir Ernest Satow informed the Wai-wu Pu that His Majesty's Government would consider the Irrawady-Salween divide as our actual and natural frontier, though they were willing to compensate two Chinese families which claimed certain small tolls on the coffin-wood brought from the country to the west of the divide. The wisdom of this decision has been proved by the events of subsequent years, for it is now clear that the Chinese idea of peaceful penetration and purely money-making administrative efforts are a real menace to our Burmah subjects on the northern stretch, whilst their endless quibbles in regard to the arbitrary frontier in the Shan States have caused much unnecessary expense and an infinity of trouble to the Government of Burmah.\n\nOn the southern section Sir George Scott, finding his Chinese colleagues on the boundary commission of 1899-1900 unwilling to reach any finality in the delimitation of the border, proceeded to demarcate the frontier alone in accordance with the terms of the convention of 1897, the result of his work being known and generally accepted as \"Scott's Line,\" though to this day the Chinese Government has withheld its acceptance of the line laid down.\n\nFor some years the frontier as thus delimited has proved satisfactory in its practical working, but at the commencement of the present year the new activity of the Chinese precipitated events which threatened the tranquillity of the whole border-land. Under instructions from Tengyueh, the Chief of Tengkeng, on the Upper Salween, raided and burned the village of Hpimaw (\"Pien-ma\") to the west of the divide; information was received shortly afterwards that the officer on special duty at A-tun-tze had penetrated to and received tribute from the Khamti Long, a Shan State well within the Burmah frontier, whilst the Chinese deputy from Yünnan-fu entered the southern Shan States known as the Sip Song Panna, and, after killing the Shan chief or \"Sawbwa\" of Mong Se and a considerable number of people in this and the neighbouring States, firmly established the nucleus of direct Chinese administration in that district, which was, undoubtedly, one of the most lawless and dangerous in Yünnan. Nearer to Tengyueh the taotai has pursued with energy a similar policy in the northern group of Shan States. Chenkaug, the most unruly centre, has been definitely placed under the rule of a Chinese sub-prefect. Frontier deputies have been installed and have made considerable progress in the direction of Lisu and Shan affairs in the districts immediately adjoining the frontier, regular troops (under the old banner and known as Tsun Fang Tui) have recently arrived to garrison the Shan States of Nantien, Changta, and Kangai, further reinforcements have left within the last few days for the border States of Lungchuan and Mengmao, five forts have recently been constructed along that section of the frontier adjoining the Burmah district of Myitkyina, and 1,000 men of the modern-drilled army, which had previously advanced no further west than Talifu, have just arrived to strengthen the garrisons at Tengyueh and Yung-chang Fu.\n\nOn general principles there would appear to be every advantage to us in this westward advance of Chinese administration, for the direct responsibility of Chinese officers and of the Yunnanese provincial Government is certainly preferable to that of a horde of dissipated and degenerate Shan Sawbwas, who have little realisation of their neighbourly duties and no power to enforce their orders, even though their intentions may be of the best, and there can be little doubt that Chinese administrative aspirations would meet with the most sympathetic response from the Government and the frontier officers of Burmah as long as they were conducted on friendly lines. It is to be regretted, however, that there has been an apparent lack of any desire for friendly understandings and an inclination to disregard the most obvious duties of neighbourly intercourse with their British colleagues on the part of some of the officers who have been chosen as instruments in the Chinese scheme of administrative expansion, nor have they confined their efforts to that territory and to those affairs which fall legitimately within their sphere of influence. Reference to the Tengkeng raid and the Khamti incident have already been made, and the Taotai Kong has adopted throughout the year a most unfriendly and unconciliatory attitude at Tengyueh. The year commenced with the destruction of a British supplementary boundary pillar; a regular frontier pillar (No. 38), on the section already definitely accepted by the Chinese, was at a later date defaced by his orders, and would have been destroyed but for the action of his delegates; the position of a number of British pillars on the middle and accepted section has been called in question; the interpreter who accompanied me into the unadministered territory in the spring has been thrown into prison by him; the attempts of the Burmah Government to define the rights of transfrontier cultivators—a task undertaken at the direct request of the Yunnan Government and carried out at considerable expense—were hedged throughout the year by persistent difficulties, and the efforts of the British frontier officers and of this consulate to settle cases of murder and robbery between the frontier subjects of Burmah and Yunnan were constantly met by him in a discourteous and obstructive spirit.\n\nAs the year drew to a close there still remained the hope of effecting settlements of outstanding cases and disputes at the annual frontier meetings, and I shall submit a report of these functions in a subsequent paragraph. In the meanwhile, various expeditions set out from the British side of the frontier to extend the administrative sphere of the Burmah Government, and to gather further information in regard to the little known tracts lying to the extreme north and east of Upper Burmah. A column under Mr. W. A. Hertz, deputy commissioner of Myitkyina, has visited the unadministered territory, and advanced as far east as the Irrawady-Salween divide in the neighbourhood of Hpinaw (\"Pien-ma\"); a small party has also visited the Khamti Long, whilst an expedition from Assam has advanced eastward from the Naga hills and entered some of the unexplored tracts lying to the extreme north of Burmah. These parties have not yet returned, but the results of their journeys will be of the deepest interest, as they will throw fresh light on that mysterious corner of our great north-eastern frontier which has been but dimly outlined by the travels of the late Consul Litton, of Mr. Errol Grey, and Mr. Noel Williamson. Mr. Litton believed that he saw the main range of the Irrawady-Salween divide sweep round to the west in a line of snow-clad peaks at about latitude 28°, near Chamutong on the Salween River, and his observations would appear to substantiate the theory of those Indian geologists and explorers who believe that the central axis of the Himalaya extends towards this point. If these facts could once be definitely established, we should have the satisfaction of knowing that the whole of the north-east frontier is circled by a mountain belt at once clearly defined and difficult of passage, for our experiences along the middle section of the Burmah-Yunnan frontier, where the boundary follows an imaginary line through irrigation channels and changing paddy-fields, and recent events in the unadministered territory indicate that on every ground, political, administrative, and commercial, it is in the highest degree inadvisable that we should be dependent on a zigzag and indefinite line marked only by shifting river beds and artificial boundary pillars. I hope to deal with the question of the existing frontier under a separate heading, but, in view of the recent Chinese objections to our standing pillars and of their general activity along this border line, it ...\n\nPage 434", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435029, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "438 \n\n10 \n\nThe ting hurried to the taotai's yamên after his visit to me, and repeated my \"violent\" remarks, stating that he had determined to prepare his resignation without loss of time. \n\n\"You; 'And quite right, too,' replied the taotai, 'I don't blame you.' 'It is down at once, and I will help you to write it out and send it on to-night.'\" The same night, however, the taotai telegraphed to the Viceroy, stating that my strong attitude and the presence of troops at Lweje evidently indicated a firm attitude on the part of the Burmah Government, and asking for instructions. A few hours later he received a reply from his Excellency ordering him to settle all outstanding affairs without delay, and to induce me to an amicable settlement at all costs. \n\nIt was reported that the ting left the presence of his masterful superior a sadder and a wiser man. \n\nAs I had not been approached in regard to the Lweje troops, it did not appear necessary to volunteer the information that that district had been selected for the usual autumn manœuvres. On the following day a meeting of the leading gentry and merchants was called at the taotai's yamên, and he ordered them to desist immediately from their foolhardy tactics, to abandon the boycott, and to go quietly about their business. From that day the unfriendly rumours and the popular excitement subsided entirely, and on riding through the streets shortly afterwards I was met everywhere with smiles and greetings, which showed clearly that the history of recent negotiations was known and appreciated by the people, who are undoubtedly well disposed to the consulate, though, like all Chinese, they are easily stirred up when official purposes can be served by popular excitement. \n\n## Final Settlements \n\nA new era now commenced in official relations, which for a year had been so stormy and for several years so entirely unsatisfactory on the frontier. The taotai sent me most conciliatory messages. The frontier deputy, Chao, who was known to be on good terms with all British officers, and who has consistently advocated a saner policy, was hurriedly summoned to Tengyueh, and within a few days the taotai had asked me to outline any settlement which would be satisfactory to the Government of Burmah. I told him that we must first settle our local affairs and the outstanding cases and questions left over from the frontier meeting, and that I should then be in a position to consider any representations which he might wish to make in regard to the broader question of frontier politics. \n\nAfter several interviews he withdrew all his objections to a satisfactory settlement; he closed every pending case, paid all outstanding compensations, ordered the ting to seal the deeds for the consulate site, signed our draft of the \"Regulations in Trans-frontier Cultivation,\" and sealed all cultivation maps in which there were no disputed fields, agreeing that the deputy, Chao, should proceed immediately to the frontier and hear the disputes, of which there were very few, if the assistant superintendent of Kutkai would agree to meet him. I endeavoured to persuade him to seal these maps also and to let the cases be heard afterwards, but he urged that the cases in question actually involved the frontier line, and that, as the line was shown on the maps, it would be more satisfactory to complete the evidence and to insert an undisputed frontier line—an argument which appeared reasonable and I therefore thought it wise to concede this point. He must certainly realise the folly, the unnecessary waste of time and money which he has incurred by refusing to have these trifling cases settled when the deputy was on the spot, but, as Mr. Chao is unlikely to hold his frontier post much longer, and as he is the only Chinese officer who understands and can be trusted to deal satisfactorily with this intricate cultivation question, I welcomed the opportunity of closing the points in dispute once for all, and of inaugurating the new regulations, a copy of which is attached to this report (`Enclosure 2`). \n\nWe are now in the favourable and unusual situation of having closed our frontier accounts with an entirely clean sheet, whilst the meetings of the past two years have defined a clear issue in all frontier questions and have established precedents and laid down a definite procedure on all important points, a result which should simplify relations and facilitate business at the frontier meetings of all succeeding years. I may add that, after all settlements had been completed by the taotai, I undertook on behalf of Mr. Thornton and Mr. Cabell to withdraw our joint despatch, a point to which the taotai appeared to attach the greatest importance. \n\n*Not printed.* \n\n11 \n\n## Rent of Namwan assigned Tract \n\nIn his settlement of the compensation account the taotai has created one precedent which may prove of service to our frontier officers in the future. In the neighbourhood of Namkham there is an assigned tract known as the \"Namwan triangle,\" which is administered by the Government of Burmah in consideration of an annual payment of 1,000 rupees, a sum generally handed to the Chinese representative by cheque at or immediately after the frontier meeting. In his despatch, dated H.T., 26th of the 1st moon (21st February, 1911), which closes the joint account for the past year, the taotai has entered this sum as part payment of the China debt to Burmah on account of outstanding cases, and in these circumstances there would appear to be no longer any objection to our adopting a similar procedure should it be necessary in future years. \n\n## Legal Points requiring Settlement \n\nSeveral cases occurred in the course of the season's work which were of more than passing interest, involving principles which must, sooner or later, be met and settled, although on general principles it appears undesirable to formulate too precisely the powers and scope of the frontier courts, which are unusual in their constitution and are hedged with difficulties which are generally best met by common sense and mutual agreement. One question which cropped up with some persistency was the definition of a British subject. For the purposes of the moment we agreed to consider a man a British frontier subject if he had actually been assessed to revenue, and this definition worked satisfactorily during the meeting, though it was not formally accepted by the Chinese. \n\nThe questions of matrimonial and civil suits and of extradition and compensation also gave rise to considerable discussion, and memoranda on these points, with suggestions for the future settlement of cases, were drawn up by Mr. Cabell, and are attached to this report as `Enclosure 3` and `Enclosure 4`. Mr. Cabell has cleared the issues, and I am entirely in accord with his views. I believe that Mr. Thornton also agrees with them, and, as cases of this nature occur with some frequency on all sections of the frontier, it is desirable that they should be dealt with on a recognised and uniform basis. One difficulty, however, presents itself, which has been touched upon by Mr. Cabell in his memorandum on extradition and compensation, and replied to in my note to `Enclosure 4`. British subjects who cross the frontier into China and commit offences there can only be tried by the consul, and his criminal powers are too restricted to allow of the proper punishment of serious crimes. I have suggested in my note to Mr. Cabell's memorandum the possibility of a King's regulation investing the consul at Tengyueh with full criminal jurisdiction, including powers of life and death similar to that exercised by the deputy commissioners in the Kachin Hills. I have the honour to submit this point for your consideration, and it is, I think, important that some simple and practical machinery should be introduced for the punishment of such offenders before they realise the unusual and dangerous immunity which they enjoy in consequence of geographical difficulties—immunities which might considerably embarrass us in our relations with the Chinese frontier authorities. \n\n## Frontier Officials \n\nIn previous reports I have outlined the career and character of the acting Tengyueh taotai, Keng Pao-kuei. A member of the progressive Szechuan party, he has had a meteoric career, attaining this post of taotai at the age of little more than 30. His advancement has been largely due to a reputation for \"fierceness,\" which has doubtless proved very effectual in dealing with the intricacies of internal affairs, and, on his arrival at the frontier, he evidently intended to prove its efficacy in the treatment of barbarian colleagues. I think it may be assumed, however, that he will try no further experiments in this direction, and that his hot-headed behaviour and reckless statements have caused considerable embarrassment not only to himself, but to his Government. His retention in office is now very uncertain, but I am endeavouring to strengthen his hand, as it appears advisable to retain him if possible now that he has realised the whole strength and weakness of his position. There is no doubt that he was greatly impressed by the frontier meeting, where the British ... \n\n*Not printed.* \n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n# OPIUM,\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nREGE20 OCT 11September 18.]\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n### Government of India to the Marquess of Crews.\n\nSimla, August 23, 1911. YOUR telegram of 14th August: Conference at The Hague on opium. Can you tell us what the business to be put before the conference will be? Its ostensible object was to be conventionalising of the Shanghai resolutions, but the detailed agenda originally suggested by the United States Government included a number of objectionable issues which we trust have been now eliminated. We also presume that the position of highest importance will be given to measures for stopping the illicit trade in cocaine and kindred drugs, which threaten greater evils to India than opium has ever caused, and which will become possibly substitutes for opium in China. International control over opium without corresponding restrictions over cocaine, morphia, and their congeners will be worse than useless. We have, however, little confidence in the motives or the judgment of some of the promoters of the conference, and there are two subjects which we will urge upon His Majesty's Government to insist on excluding from the recommendations of the conference: one is the arrangement regarding our Indian trade with China, the other is our domestic regulation of the production and use of opium in India. The working of the recent Peking agreement requires the most delicate handling, and China seems only too ready to seize on any excuse for making our position more difficult. The rapid disappearance of the trade, which is now inevitable, will strain severely the resources of British India and the temper of a number of our native States, where serious hardship must result. We would most strongly deprecate any enhancement of these difficulties by outside interference as regards our internal regulations. We shall shortly address you by despatch, but the question, which is associated with the gravest political and humanitarian considerations, is obviously one for the British Government alone, and it should be as clearly excluded from the recommendations of the proposed conference at The Hague as it was from those of the Shanghai Commission. On learning from you the probable agenda of the conference, we shall send you materials for our case by despatch, and we would urge that Indian interests should be represented strongly.\n\n[36537]\n\nPage 363\n\n(No. 343.) Sir,\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 18.)\n\nPeking, September 2, 1911. The Wai-wu Pu have recently approached me on several occasions with regard to the arrangements which we are prepared to make in conjunction with them for carrying out the fourth article of the Opium Agreement of the 8th May last, and have intimated to me their intention of undertaking an extensive investigation of the provinces with the view of determining how far the suppression of the cultivation and import of native opium may have entitled them to claim the exclusion of Indian opium under article 3 of the agreement.\n\nChihli and Fukien have been specially mentioned as provinces in which there is a strong popular demand for total abolition, and it is expected that the National Assembly, when it meets next month, will bring great pressure to bear upon the Government to have effect given to the resolution which it passed last session for the extinction of the opium trade within a limited period of time.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu are therefore naturally anxious to show that the agreement of 1911 is producing good results, and that they are ready to meet the wishes of any province which declares for exclusion.\n\nIn a note, copy of which I have the honour to enclose, they have requested me to inform them in due time of the steps we intend to take for the appointment of the necessary officials, and I have therefore the honour to submit for your consideration the following recommendations:\n\nNothing can be usefully done in the matter until next spring, when the poppy crop will be sufficiently advanced for the purpose of the investigation. There would be at least ten provinces which would require to be examined within a limited space of time, and I would suggest that consular officers should be detached from the larger consulates to do the work in company with the delegates appointed by the Chinese Government. The provinces of Shensi and Kansu, for instance, might be allotted to an officer from this legation; the consulate-general at Tien-tsin might spare a man to examine Chihli and Shantung; from Hankow an officer might be detached to inspect Hunan and Hupei, and the provinces in the vicinity of Shanghai might, if necessary, be examined by a member of the Shanghai consulate-general. Fukien would be assigned to the Foochow consulate.\n\nSir A. Hosie, who has performed most valuable services in connection with the whole question, should, I venture to suggest, direct and supervise all these various enquiries and devote his time generally to seeing that the agreement of 1911 is effectively carried out in the interests of India. The Chinese Government are impatient of any delay on our part in giving effect to the wishes of the provinces, and consider that we have been most unreasonable in refusing to entertain their first application under article 3 until the restrictions mentioned in article 7 were removed. That these restrictions will be renewed and continued in one form or another, so long as Indian opium is imported, is a moral certainty, and Sir A. Hosie's presence here and his personal knowledge of the question are of the greatest assistance to me in dealing with the vast mass of correspondence which reaches the legation from the opium merchants, the Hong Kong Government, and the consuls at the ports on this vexed and complicated question. I trust, therefore, that sanction will be given to his retention here for the present.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n[2182 s--2]\n\n--2]\n\n47\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438458, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": ".oll unsquietos oT) \n\nY 10 0 0 P Y. \n\n,yoeball .Ti \n\nyowlied noolwol nouABO \n\nIA \n\nLÍİV VAMO, A Yo D. 9% se Jourao ohlad ngwoult \n\n.boisden aristte nen dinja voy \n\n(To accompany No. \n\n7. \n\n> \n\nCanton-Kowloon Railway, Imperial Chinese Section. \n\nEngineer-in-Chief's Office, \n\nCanton, 19th December, 1911. \n\n( \n\nJ. W. Jamieson, Esq., C.M.G., \n\nH. B. M. Consul-General, \n\nCanton. \n\n10: \n\nDear Sir, \n\n221 \n\nFor record in your Consulate we beg to hand you \n\nthe following information appertaining to this Railway:- \n\nOn November the 7th, under direction of the late \n\nViceroy H.E. Chang, traffic was suspended on this Railway, (copy \n\nof his proclamation enclosed) until November 12th. \n\nOn the 9th November the Revolutionary flag was \n\nhoisted throughout Canton and reopening of traffic was impossible \n\nas the Railway was absolutely without guard. \n\nOn the assurances of the Governor-General that \n\neverything was in order throughout the Railway, an inspection of \n\nthe track was attempted on 13th November but on reaching Sheklung \n\nthe train was held up by an armed mob and sent back to Canton. Mr. \n\nLindsell of your Consulate accompanied the train. \n\nAfter further assurances had been given us by the \n\nProvincial Government, we again visited Sheklung on the 27th \n\nNovember and having found a guard of soldiers posted at each \n\nstation resumed traffic on the 28th November between Tai Sha Tou \n\nand Sheklung. Mr. Combe of your Consulate accompanied us on that \n\noccasion. \n\nThe Government could not give us any assurances \n\nbeyond this point. \n\nOn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nEnclosure 3 in Sir J. Jordan's No. 86 of February 20, 1912.\n\nCanton-Kowloon Railway, Imperial Chinese Section.\n\nEngineer-in-Chief's Office, Canton, 19th December, 1911.\n\nNo. 8904.\n\nJ.W. Jamieson Esq., C.M.G., H.B.M. Consul General, CANTON.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nFor record in your Consulate, we beg to hand you the following information appertaining to this Railway:\n\nOn November the 7th, under direction of the late Viceroy H.E. Chang, traffic was suspended on this Railway (copy of his letter enclosed) until November 12th.\n\nOn the 9th November, the Revolutionary flag was hoisted throughout Canton, and reopening of traffic was impossible as the Railway was absolutely without guard.\n\nOn the assurances of the Governor General that everything was in order throughout the Railway, an inspection of the track was attempted on 13th November, but on reaching Sheklung, the train was held up by an armed mob and sent back to Canton. Mr. Linsell of your Consulate (Note: Colonial Cadet stationed in Canton for studying Chinese) accompanied the train.\n\nAfter further assurances had been given us by the Provincial Government, we again visited Sheklung on the 27th November, and having found a guard of Soldiers posted at each station, resumed traffic on the 28th November between Tai Sha Tou and Sheklung. Mr. Combe of your Consulate accompanied us on that occasion.\n\nThe...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "112\n\nmost likely to take exception; indeed the Treaty of \n\n(azier00 of 1903 expressly recognises the existence of \n\nBritish joint-stock companies and the binding force on \n\n512\n\nChinese shareholders therein of the articles of associa-\n\ntion and regulations framed thereunder as interpreted by \n\nBritish Courts. I entirely agree with Sir F. Fraser that \n\nplacing British companies under a Hongkong deputy in \n\nShanghai is far more likely to be resented by China than \n\nthe direct intervention of an Imperial officer. The best \n\nchance of averting this resentment lies in following the \n\npolicy adopted by France and Germany, and making the \n\nregistry a part of the Consulate; and though I can under-\n\nstand Sir F. Lugard's desire to consolidate British in-\n\nterests in the Far East and to focus them in the Colony \n\nof Hongkong, I feel that it would be unwise to give pro-\n\nminence to this idea in the new Order in Council if for \n\nno other reason than that it would be likely to lay us \n\nopen to the criticism which it is desirable to avoid. \n\nI would beg leave, further, to emphasise the point \n\nto", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441056, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## Canton-Kowloon Railway, Imperial Chinese Section.\n\n388\n\nEngineer-in-Chief's Office,\nCanton, 19th December, 1911.\n\nJ. W. Jamieson, Esq., C.M.G.,\nH. B. M. Consul-General,\nCanton.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nFor record in your Consulate we beg to hand you the following information appertaining to this Railway:\n\nOn November 7th, under direction of the late Viceroy H.E. Chang, traffic was suspended on this Railway (copy of his proclamation enclosed) until November 12th.\n\nOn the 9th November the Revolutionary flag was hoisted throughout Canton and reopening of traffic was impossible as the Railway was absolutely without guard.\n\nOn the assurances of the Governor-General that everything was in order throughout the Railway, an inspection of the track was attempted on 13th November but on reaching Sheklung the train was held up by an armed mob and sent back to Canton. Mr. Lindsell of your Consulate accompanied the train.\n\nAfter further assurances had been given us by the Provincial Government, we again visited Sheklung on the 27th November and having found a guard of soldiers posted at each station resumed traffic on the 28th November between Tai Sha Tou and Sheklung. Mr. Combe of your Consulate accompanied us on that occasion.\n\nThe Government could not give us any assurances beyond this point.\n\nOn the 8th December a representative of the Provincial Government...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442907, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "# H. B. M. Consulate-General, Canton, March 3, 1913.\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my despatch No. 5 of February 12th, I have the honour to transmit herewith copies of further correspondence which I have exchanged with the Provincial Authorities on the subject of limestone, and of which a precis has been sent you by telegraph.\n\nAs reported, I proceeded to Hongkong last week and discussed the matter both with His Excellency the Governor and the Board of Control of the Green Island Cement Company. My reply to the Foreign Commissioner's letter is the outcome of that discussion. I at the same time instructed Mr. Combe to take advantage of my absence and to endeavour to ascertain privately from Mr. Lo what his letter really meant and to what extent the Industrial Commissioner was prepared to meet us in so far as future supplies are concerned. This interview, which took place on the 1st instant, answered no valuable purpose. Were we prepared to state that no breach of Treaty had been committed and were the claim for damages unconditionally withdrawn, \"they would see what could be done\". The desire to institute a monopoly was denied, and the old contentions that they had an inherent sovereign right to punish contractors who acted contrary to law, and were not bound to give previous notice of domestic legislation, advanced once more. In any case, Government were not prepared to supply stone: the Green Island Company must find new contractors. Counter arguments proved of no avail, and absolutely no progress was made.\n\nThe pretext, behind which in their answer they will doubtless seek to shelter themselves, is the word \"illicit\" applied both to the quarrying and the transport of stone in Ch'en Tu Tu's original Notification, but they will find it not easy to explain in what respect a trade carried on with the knowledge and approval of the Imperial Government for years should suddenly, at the instance of the Canton Cement Works, be dubbed illicit, the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n### Opium Importers at Shanghai to Consul-General Fraser\n\nShanghai, January 20, 1913.\n\nTHE magnitude of the difficulties in which the opium question in China has now become involved, will, we trust, be accepted as sufficient ground to justify us in addressing you at some length, and, as we sincerely hope, to some useful purpose upon those aspects of the situation which most materially affect our interests.\n\nIn the first place we have regretfully to represent that not only are all the usual markets for Indian opium outside the foreign settlements of Shanghai illegally closed to our trade, but also that the Chinese authorities who have done this in contemptuous disregard of the Anglo-Chinese Opium Agreement of May 1911, have now surrounded Shanghai with an impenetrable cordon of police, spies, and informers whose business it is to seize and confiscate every ounce of opium which our customers endeavour to send or convey into the country. The merchandise in question is, as we need scarcely inform you, always covered by proper transit passes, and the packages bear the usual Customs labels, professing to frank the opium through every part of China excepting provinces closed by treaty. Here, then, we have the anomalous and highly undesirable position that the same Government which collects duty on our goods in the morning seizes and confiscates these same goods in the afternoon, within a mile of the custom-house in which the impost has been paid. It is almost incredible that any Government should exhibit such a predatory disregard of the plain rights of merchants to whom, by the ready acceptance of revenue from them, it is reasonable to infer that it has guaranteed protection in their lawful trade; but, nevertheless, as you are no doubt aware, many glaring instances of the reprehensible procedure complained of have recently been put on record by us in the consulate-general, and many others of the same nature can be described, if necessary.\n\nIt must thus be apparent to the British Government that the markets for Indian opium in China have now been arbitrarily, illegally, and defiantly closed by the Chinese republican authorities, and up to the present moment all our protests, however earnest and respectful, in the matter, have entirely failed to induce the Chinese Government to fulfil its obligations, or, indeed, to treat them with aught but contemptuous and injurious repudiation. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that the recent stoppage of import of Indian opium into China has not yet relieved us or helped our business in any way, or that we still find ourselves in the unenviable position of having huge stocks on our hands without a market or the prospect of a market in which to dispose of them. The situation has become absolutely impossible, and can no longer be borne by us. For more than a year we have endured the obstructions so outrageously presented by the Chinese Government to the legitimate course of our business, and have seen our interests perish by degrees until now, to put the case plainly, some of the merchants are faced with bankruptcy unless something really effectual be done without delay to relieve the situation.\n\nWe submit it merely as a possible way out of the difficulty, and we would ask that you be good enough to consider it without drawing any inference prejudicial to the rights which we now claim, and which the British Government has admitted that we hold in the general situation. We make the suggestion merely in the utter absence of any other, and we shall be most happy to withdraw it in favour of anything better in the way of a workable scheme that may be forthcoming.\n\nOur idea is that the Indian Government, in view of all that has transpired, and in common justice to us, might be induced to cease making sales of opium for all those markets outside of China, for the supply of which at present that Government holds a monopoly. During the year 1913, it was originally the intention of the Indian Government to sell 13,200 chests of opium for the markets in question, but since that decision was first announced, there has been a reduction in the amount of the proposed sales from the figure mentioned to 9,000 chests. We now suggest, quite tentatively as we have explained, that even this amount, 9,000 chests, be temporarily withheld from the markets outside of China, and that no further sales for those markets be made by the Indian Government until:\n\n(a) The British Government has been successful in inducing China to fulfil her treaty obligations and restore to us those outlets for our trade which she has improperly closed; or\n\n(b) Until our stocks are exhausted either in our customary markets or those which we now suggest should be opened to us outside of China.\n\nWe cannot, under existing arrangements, avail ourselves of these latter markets, because so long as the Indian Government continues to supply them, the prices ruling there must remain somewhere in the neighbourhood of 900 taels per chest, which, of course, is so low a rate that we cannot possibly compete with it. But if the Indian Government were to cease supplying those markets and allow us to supply them temporarily, not only would our position here be ameliorated, but the British Government would find itself relieved of the necessity of deciding what should be done with the opium now accumulated on our hands in the event of all efforts in the direction of treaty enforcement in China proving fruitless.\n\nWe quite realise that our suggestion would be likely to excite strong opposition in the markets affected, and that the Indian Government would also receive it most unfavourably owing to the loss of revenue that its acceptance would produce in India; but, on the other hand, it ought to be remembered that the Indian Government sold us this opium specifically for the China markets in accordance with the treaty of 1911, and cannot evade the moral and, we believe, legal obligation to protect us in lawfully disposing of the commodity, or, in the alternative, taking the opium off our hands. The British Government having so far refrained, in deference to considerations of a sentimental nature, from bringing effective pressure to bear upon China to compel her to fulfil her bargain, it is surely reasonable to ask that, acting upon considerations of simple justice, the British Government should now come to the assistance of those unfortunate British subjects who are being sacrificed to the first-named motive, and give them a chance of disposing of their goods in the only markets which it would now seem are likely to be available for some time to come. As to the objection which is sure to be advanced in the event of the acceptance of our suggestion that the price of opium in the markets affected will thereby be enormously enhanced, it is pertinent to state that prior to the conclusion of the agreement of 1911, the price of opium in those markets was more than double the figures at present ruling there; and that ultimately the burden of the increased cost of the drug must fall upon the consumer and the consumer only.\n\n[2806 bb-1]\n\nPage 340", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446980, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "Y TO COPY.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nNo. 3.\n\n Aheady ~ 7223 77 \n\nH. B. M. Consulate-General,\n\nCanton, January 21, 1914.\n\n2\n\nSir,\n\nAt the request of His Excellency the Governor I proceeded to Hongkong on the 16th instant to discuss the present financial situation in Kuangtung.\n\nTwo days previously a paragraph in the native press stated that the Tutu had arranged a loan of $10,000,000 with a certain British engineer, the security being the spirit tax, the Canton Cement Works and the Kuper Island reclamation, or practically that offered to Mr. Hillier when in the South. So many inspired items of news are inserted in the Chinese newspapers for the purpose of creating confidence in, and maintaining the exchange value of, local banknotes that I did not give any credence to this particular one, more especially as on arrival in Hongkong I found that neither the General Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank nor the Government were aware of any such project.\n\nI accordingly, after discussion with Sir Henry May, telegraphed you the following outline of a scheme, which to us appeared feasible, and which seemed a practical means of relieving the situation. The Intelligence Report for the December Quarter 1913 gives a graphic picture of the difficulties of the Government, to which have been superadded a complete stagnation of the import trade from Hongkong into Canton and the danger of another rebellion consequent on lack of funds wherewith to pay the troops and to meet other engagements falling due at the end of the Chinese year.\n\nThe Government of Hongkong are informed that there is a disposition on the part of Chinese in the Colony to assist by subscribing to a domestic loan, if the principle of foreign control be established, but as none of them have the moral courage to advocate its adoption, it would have to be dictated by the Central Government. The amount which they and their fellow-countrymen in Kuangtung could raise is put at twenty million dollars, and I am informed that the Hongkong and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "821\n\n+\n\n...\n\nL.I H\n\n„ÞIGI,Jeuguå ¿±81,3¤oxyαoß\n\n量\n\nJOPY.\n\n•\n\n7900\n\nNo. 41.\n\n159\n\nEnclosure 3\n\nH. I. J. M's. Consulate General\n\nHongkong,\n\n17th August, 1914.\n\n... TAKⱭ\n\ne teát en gulmmolai Tettel gaiztido from quot\n\nnevig afsagia edt ils bebtagetzib doldw zeiffos masasṛat\n\nylub ni asa a lo d‡seb odd at zaidlusez,coqu betil zaw\n\n.bevisser\n\nJozzət Jaeqeeb ya sberqxe of ged i viger al\n\n-ugez Ivodred edt bebrsgezaib aistqs0 Jaszonzi edt tadt\n\n«Y‡İTod‡us yestiitm ad‡ of aiduokė a doua gaivią „kottai\n\nTuoy lo jɛłą edź sono da bedqergelet evad I\n\nTUOY BİRİDOInga Jduob on IIłw odv Jasaarevod yn of settei\n\n.05MWIIUB00 etanudtolar eldt d‡łw yidagaya\n\n„YfG7GOHİR YIGV BIJOI\n\niamI .2 (aa)\n\n.magal Tol (stened Ivegod\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 5248/1914 dated the 15th August informing me of the death of a Japanese on board the Japanese merchant ship \"Shikoku Maru\" due to a shot from one of the batteries which is charged with the enforcement of the Rules for the examination of vessels wishing to enter the Harbour at the present time.\n\nWhile I regret deeply this unfortunate occurrence which was caused solely by entire disregard of the rules in force by the master of the vessel, resulting in giving such trouble to the authority, I thank you for the information given.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(SD) S. Imai\n\nConsul-General for Japan.\n\nThe Hon. Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449001, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "The Hon. The Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 3\n\nPrince's Buildings,\n\nIce House Street,\n\n24th September, 1914.\n\nThe Representative of the Hongkong Bank in charge\n\nof the Liquidation of the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank requests\n\nthat you will be good enough to advise him whether he is in\n\nthe future to pay to the United States Consul in charge of\n\nthe German Consulate a sum estimated to be about $1,200 a\n\nmonth (and this would include the August expenditure) being\n\nthe rent of the offices and the wages of the Portuguese\n\nand Chinese staff and incidental expenses of the German\n\nConsulate.\n\nIf paid, the disbursement will create an over-\n\ndraft which will accumulate month by month until after the\n\nWar.\n\nWill you kindly let us hear from you as to this.\n\nAn early reply is requested, as the American Consul is of\n\ncourse without funds to meet the August obligations in\n\nrespect of the German Consulate.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\n(SD) Johnson Stokes and Master.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "875\n\n279\n\n•yvent Innoissæiedri to comiteb -baitinu end reed sai ebutaiupsib evṣ1 107 Monney Telijona\n\nbra babjad ni Loloitto daixwï eldianoçsen ya tnaldnews yi ent to Jusvetioni nego erit bre ndos¿dve deitina to minundoyose.. Tell bne nistina Jæeul Janies selonio Laioitto neixwi yd noiteInyog\n\n+\n\n.Bella\n\n-, javod a'ydzejui sill void^oovory kint ILs Milindandiwtol,\n\nwuried vol beduditadur erew dísizw. ti jand betamiðni yino don dna.. niqyire Jiulote.. najjima 12,\"unlee1S\" brus \"nedeoë\" and no kwell aeljub sit duo ¿rmo plenione, niuow yeaw. li bne Sebequi dor 387 eu Finov adua slitsoni me naivilajolli seent II: ‚etada Lexjuen e to Jarij novi, 80 Alwow bedriïus nedjim ben reloa a bebeicofroVO kun sonetneçebni and Joergen vlavolayers Iliw nistiya JoSTU .eriquű mazodsů add to ysiqJOJNİ\n\nnotzulongo erst de tot mevİ, OTOW BOOLAINARA SIQSIEŃĴxasT awob bigf exev anoljibmoo on doit vea Fivoy mistira tæerû coɛng to okomode tuilt bas ytiqadri bas eɔnebneqeini tunt risqué Bloow dołdw beniutɗo ed bluow yexwl of elderwovat tetoniano a to enoitłúngs unusvoj jezul to aludidte ent acomwans eserd to giga ni\n\nDeumitnos conativo .evitauoronq yLaisseroni asoed nistİrā JAero sity? al snoisowegory yuntilim To Josmievoð ■'ytacja BiH doner of nogu dostia edatillost od medd eaoqug varito or even blvoo do trw marie\", bra, sidog yd no beltiao ahnuongozų evidos to bmm ;dql reitkort misqus, ent (utakojŷe amoiyat ni edat. nluobes grows atnajs LOVE GIAW AJIoçer bra ererwesie Joci no dea anew asajlatni refimi2 weiv a dtiw mibni of seizaasime deizwi to dotsqeeb erit to bevisser\n\n.artsdemoniali nailki nowa „milost Misk¬g-itma yu gairikda of blnow exit al zewo¶ neterorie. Jestnet, wild nlåsing Jaeto\n\nsad sre konw yoiwi to humirt dhadaianos han Instrídkat sdt bas jepet maled edt♬ ni veande yellidoja edi revoser et bøglen yIdealbooja ni beyooeb need her yedwt tarit dengan deeduera ord ddiw ses binow na hityoba byw eiøre s'hasia to eble erit no Meared joiymey Jolano ti jud,Irtedar nu ad úlow di an slósilijautro en slutitte\n\na ai event tudi svoʻla noidnutia dreaonq edt dand Selmab ed\n\nchauvinistic element endeavouring to drive Turkey into war with England for the benefit of Germany and of Austria, the secular enemy of the Turkish State.\n\nA striking illustrations of the extent to which intrigues have been carried on is furnished by the case of a German employee in Alexandria City Police who lately returned from leave via Constantinople saying that he had been excused from military service. He was arrested on suspicion on landing, and on him were found detailed map of the Suez Canal, sheet of (--?-- ) cypher messages concealed in his tarboosh, and other compromising correspondence. He had also entrusted to (members of ships' companies ?) two (? box) es of detonators for exploding dynamite and notro-glycerine.\n\nFurther a steady stream of German officers and men both naval and military together with all kinds of war material has flow- ed unceasingly into Constantinople, which has been converted to all intents and purposes into a German military base. German officers\n\nare known to have penetrated far into the interior of the Turkish\n\nEmpire in the endeavour to stir up agitation against Great Britain and her allies. All these movements, it is impossible to doubt,\n\nhave been carried out with the direct connivance of the Ottoman\n\nAuthorities and can point to only one conclusion.\n\n(That) neutral powers (meant) deliberately and intentional- ly to provoke Great Britain to war is shown by instructions issued not later than October 18th to the Turkish commandant at Jaffa by the Turkish Minister of War, which already allude to His Majesty's Government as the enemy, give detailed orders as to resisting attack by warships and include an order to break the Consulate flagstaff and remove the insignia.\n\nThe Mosul Damascus Army Corps have since their mobilization been constantly sending troops south preparatory to an invasion of Egypt and the Suez Canal from Akaba and Gaza. A large body of Bedouin Arabs have been called out and armed to assist in this venture\n\nTransport has been collected and roads have been prepared up to the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450692, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "69\n\nin the public eye, but not by any men of special mark. The note throughout has been dissatisfaction with what is considered to be the weak policy of the Foreign Office, and a demand for mobilisation and the despatch of troops to occupy strategic points in China. The attitude of the Government has been calm throughout, and every endeavour has been made to allay public excitement and to prevent the popular indignation from getting out of hand. Even free lances of importance, like Mr. Inukai, Mr. Ozaki, and others, have preached patience, and pointed out the necessity of allowing time for the Chinese Government to deal satisfactorily with the situation. Of course the Opposition press is very excited, and even vernacular papers, such as the \"Jiji\" and \"Nichi Nichi,\" are beginning to show signs of impatience, but the dailies, which are published in English, are still showing an excellent example. The agitation in the Opposition papers is ascribed to a desire to turn the Government out of office.\n\nYesterday it was stated that a young man, aged 18, had committed suicide, and that a paper found in his pocket was a confession of the murder of Mr. Abe. I do not know if this news is correct, but the account given is circumstantial. Another young man has since attempted to commit suicide in one of the waiting rooms of the Foreign Office by way of protest against the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.\n\nMr. Abe's funeral took place without any disturbance on Thursday, and was attended by about 1,500 persons, including the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Marine, Baron Kato, Viscount Uchida, all the staff of the Foreign Office, and representatives of the various embassies and legations. Extraordinary posthumous honours have been conferred upon the dead man by the Emperor, including his appointment as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n[44424]\n\nNo. 143.\n\nCONYNGHAM GREENE.\n\n(No. 218.)\n\nMr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 29.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nNANKING incident.\n\nPeking, September 29, 1913.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Nanking telegraphed to me yesterday as follows:-\n\nChang, who called on all the consuls to-day, informed me that a settlement of the Japanese incident is being arrived at. Chang called on the Japanese consul this morning to apologise, and this afternoon his troops will follow.\n\n[44425]\n\nNo. 144.\n\nMr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received September 29.) (No. 219.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nNANKING incident.\n\nPeking, September 29, 1913.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Nanking reports that, as he learns from the Japanese consul, 900 of Chang's soldiers saluted the Japanese consulate yesterday, and the demands of Japan have been complied with. In two or three days the greater portion of the Japanese landing force will be withdrawn.\n\nNo. 145.\n\nMr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.- (Received October 4.) (No. 224.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nTHE election of the President is fixed for the 6th October and the inauguration\n\nPeking, October 4, 1913. for the 10th October. I propose to recognise the Republic as soon as the election has been notified to us.\n\nThe President's inaugural address will contain a declaration, which has been submitted to the Diplomatic Body, regarding the observance of foreign treaties.\n\n[1089]\n\n270", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "534 \n\nJ \n\nShanghai, Canton, Peking and other Chinese cities, and is registered in Hong Kong at the German Consulate. \n\nThey suggest that we send a Bank draft to Hong Kong in the name of Mr Harry Arnhold and that he shall ship the goods to us as the Banks there will not negotiate drafts through Arnhold Karberg and Company. \n\nWill you be good enough to inform us whether we are justified, in view of the King's Proclamation as to trading with the Enemy, in accepting delivery of, and paying for goods shipped under these conditions? \n\nWe are writing to you because this firm have given us a copy of a letter written by you to them on this subject of August 21st last Reference C. \n\nYours faithfully, \n\nPriest Marians & Co. Ltd., \n\n(Sgd) W.C.B. Priest. \n\nManaging Director.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451616, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "(COPY) C. 7567.\n\n**ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO.**\n\n14, Fenchurch Street,\nLondon, E.C.\n\n17th August, 1914.\n\nThe Assistant Secretary,\nBoard of Trade,\n(Commercial Department).\n\nSir,\n\n535\n\nWe have received through Messrs. Coward and Hawksley, Sons and Chance your letter of the 14th August and note that it is permissible for us to carry on our business with British, Allied or Neutral countries.\n\nWe presume that China is included in the latter category, in spite of the question of extraterritoriality and would ask you to be good enough to confirm to us that our understanding is correct.\n\nThe head office of our firm is in Shanghai, where our firm is registered in the German Consulate, and we have numerous branches in China, as also branches in London, New York and Berlin.\n\nOur reason for raising the above point is, that the British Banks still maintain that they are precluded from dealing with our houses in China. If they maintain this attitude we shall inevitably be forced to close our doors, in which case the ultimate loss will fall mainly on British Banks and British manufacturers, as, although we are technically a German firm, by far the greater proportion of our imports into China consists of British goods, and our business is financed almost entirely through British Banks.\n\nIt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451710, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "permitted by the Authorities to do so. If there should be any possibility to ship some goods, we trust you will accept them, considering the attitude the British Insurance Company has adopted and no doubt you will also get permission to continue business relations with us at present.\n\nAs regards 1) We are quite certain you will be allowed to make payments now for all the goods you have received so far from us.\n\nWe might further add, that we have insured a great part of the goods in our Godowns with several British Insurance Companies in Shanghai and after the Proclamation was issued by the British Government we asked them to confirm us that during the war they will pay any damages we should have; we are glad to say they all gave us the desired confirmation after they had received the written opinion from their solicitors without any exception, quite clear, leaving no doubt that any claims will be promptly paid. Further we beg to say, that all the Accounts we have with British Firms in great Britain, China, India or any other Country are paid promptly by our firm, in spite of the Proclamation; we regularly place large contracts with British Firms and do not fail to square all their Accounts during the war; we mention it because you say, that possibly an authority from your Consul will be delayed to make now any payments; we understand that you have to adhere to the instructions of your Consulate but we think that we as an Austrian Firm should not suffer because", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452159, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "## ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO\n\nLONDON, BERLIN NEW YORK.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nSHANGHAI.\n\nTIENTSIN.\n\nTSINGTAU.\n\nCHUNGKING.\n\nMUKDEN.\n\nPEKING.\n\nCANTON, HANKOW. NEWCHWANG.\n\nTSINANFU.\n\nWUHU.\n\nKIUKIANG.\n\nFontech Street.\n\n33077.\n\n31st August 1914.\n\nLondon.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: KARBERG, LONDON.\n\nTELEPHONE: [860] 887 AVENUE.\n\nThe Secretary, The Colonial Office, Eastern Department (Hongkong), 12, Downing Street, Whitehall.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the writer's call this afternoon, we beg to give you below particulars as to the position in which our firm is at present placed in Hongkong:-\n\nOur firm was originally established in China in 1866. At the time the original founder was a German, and the firm was naturally registered in the German Consulate and has remained so registered ever since, though the founder of the firm subsequently became a naturalised British subject.\n\nAt the present moment the partners are partly British born and partly German. The firm's head office is in Shanghai, and the senior partner is a British born British subject.\n\nOn the outbreak of hostilities we have communicated with the Board of Trade regarding the status of our firm, and it has been confirmed to us, that we are at liberty to carry on our trade so far as British, allied, or neutral countries are concerned, without a special license. This was further confirmed by the recent pronouncement.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453542, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## 12\n\nCanton Branch was landed at Yokohama where it is stored and \"the Bank\" permission to take over the bars held here on account of their Calcutta Office and set them may want against the contract made with Chinese in Canton above stated leaving the bars in Yokohama to be held there on account of their Calcutta Office.\n\nLetters and Telegrams. It is proposed to allow the Bank to deal with all letters coming in and going out. As to this we shall be glad to have instructions. We understand that no telegrams are accepted from or delivered to \"the Bank\" or their staff. Confirm this.\n\nPlease\n\nC\n\nGeneral. All vouchers for all transactions will pass through the hands of \"the Representative\", who will see, as far as in his power so to do, that no transaction goes through which could in any way be looked upon or be considered as new business. Transactions under old contracts will be checked with the contract books of the bank.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nWe have, &c.,\n\nJOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.\n\n## 13\n\nTelegrams in plain language for this purpose. These telegrams should be initialled by \"the representative\". Drafts bearing dates before the declaration of war need not be referred to the Government unless \"the representative\" is of opinion that they present some special features. All payments of drafts bearing dates after the declaration of war must be authorised by \"the representative\". Should any draft be presented bearing a date later than the date by which the notice to cease drawing might reasonably be expected to reach the other branches, the matter should be referred to the Government.\n\nBar Silver - Application may be made later if permission should be required to take over the bars held here against the Canton contract.\n\nThe general intention of the permission conveyed in my letter of the 25th August is the liquidation of the business of \"the bank\" somewhat as if a solvent firm were being wound up in bankruptcy.\n\nI shall address you later on the question of dealing with letters and telegrams, and in the meantime \"the representative\" may continue to act as he has been doing.\n\nAs a special exception, \"the bank\" will be allowed to pay to the Consul-General for the United States of America the expenses incurred by him in respect of his charge of the Imperial German Consulate so long as \"the bank\" may remain in being here.\n\nEnclosure in No. 18.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nCLAUD SEVERN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG, 1st September, 1914.\n\nSIR - The representative of the Hongkong Bank in charge of the Liquidation of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank requests that you will be good enough to advise him whether he is in the future to pay to the United States Consul in charge of the German Consulate a sum estimated to be about $1,200 a month (and this would include the August expenditure) being the rent of the offices and the wages of the Portuguese and Chinese staff and incidental expenses of the German Consulate.\n\nIf paid, the disbursement will create an overdraft which will accumulate month by month until after the war. Will you kindly let us hear from you as to this. An early reply is requested, as the American Consul is of course without funds to meet the August obligations in respect of the German Consulate.\n\nWe have, &c.,\n\nJOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure in No. 13.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 3rd September, 1914.\n\nDeutsch-Asiatische Bank.\n\nGENTLEMEN, I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th August and to express general approval of the proposed arrangements subject to the remarks made below:\n\nCurrent Accounts. - No lodgments must be accepted for current accounts.\n\nDrafts Drawn on \"The Bank\", Hongkong. - These drafts may be paid as they come in, but immediate steps should be taken by \"the bank\" to notify other branches to cease drawing on the Hongkong branch. Permission will be given to \"the bank\" to send...\n\nMessrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master.\n\nTelegraphic.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nFrom the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n11th September, 1914.\n\nProclamation of August 5th and August 12th relating to trading with enemy having in practice been found to be not altogether adequate, amended proclamation has been issued dated September 9th revoking proclamation of August 5th and paragraph No. 2 of proclamation of August 12th which applied proclamation of August 5th to Austria-Hungary and substituting following provisions: - (begins)\n\n1. The expression enemy country in this proclamation means the territories of the German Empire and the territories of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, together with all the Colonies and dependencies thereof.\n\n2. The expression enemy in this proclamation means any person or bodies of persons of whatever nationalities resident or carrying on business in the enemy country, but does not include persons of enemy nationalities who are neither resident nor carrying on business in the enemy country. In the cases of incorporated bodies enemy character attaches only to those incorporated in an enemy country.\n\n3. The expression outbreak of war in this proclamation means 11 p.m. on the August 4th 1914 in relation to the German Empire, its colonies and dependencies, and midnight on the August 12th 1914 in relation to Austria-Hungary, its colonies and dependencies.\n\n4. From and after the date of this proclamation the following prohibitions shall have effect, (save so far as licences may be issued as hereinafter provided), and we do hereby accordingly warn all persons resident, carrying on business or being in our dominions: -\n\n(i.) not to pay any sums of money to or for the benefit of an enemy; \n(ii) not to compromise or give security for the payment of any debt or other sum of money with or for the benefit of an enemy; \n\nPage 323", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457729, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 471, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "465\n\n.bounlined\n\nOn arriving at Shanghai on Sept.1st Mr. Kleinjung called at the British Consulate, and was favoured with an interview with Sir E. Fraser. Mr. Kleinjung writes to us as follows:- I have shown Sir E.Fraser my passport and he advises me to write to you and ask you to communicate with the Foreign Office, and to ask the Foreign Office to arrange with the Colonial Office for the latter department to cable instructions to Hongkong that I am to be treated as an ordinary British subject, i.e. to be allowed free entry, and to be allowed if I consider it desirable to open a branch office in Hongkong for the firm.\n\nSir E. Fraser considers that unless this is done I shall be liable to similar treatment on my return journey as on my way out.\n\nTo prevent a repetition of the indignities to which Mr.Kleinjung was subjected we trust the Colonial Office will act upon Sir E. Fraser's suggestion and cable out the necessary instructions to the Hongkong authorities.\n\nWe may add that Mr. V. Kleinjung was born in England 35 years ago, and with the exception of mere trips abroad has always lived in England. As regards our firm, it is purely British, as since our incorporation as a Limited Company in 1907, we have had only British shareholders, officials and employees.\n\nAwaiting your kind report,\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nOTTO V. KLEINJUNG, LIMITED,\n\nZ.Mitchell\n\nDirector\n\nSept.29/15. Continued.\n\n \nPage 465\n\nPage 465\n\nPage 465", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458115, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "October 16th 1915.\n\n56219\n\nREG 7 DEC 15\n\nSir,\n\nAbout one month ago there arrived in the port of Hong Kong 48 bales of French Michelin automobile tyres consigned to the undersigned. These tyres were shipped by the Michelin Tyre Company of Clermont-Ferrand, France, through the port of Marseilles, France, to a French house in the Philippines.\n\nAccording to information which we receive from the British Consulate of this City, these tyres were held up in Hong Kong as contraband of war.\n\nWe therefore furnished the British Consul, through the French Consul, all information concerning this shipment to us, and the invoices.\n\nHaving heard nothing further as a result of this action, we wish to call the attention of Your Excellency to the situation and at the same time express our great surprise that the government of Hong Kong would hold up a shipment of this character, shipped by a French firm, through a French port without difficulty, to another French House in a neutral port.\n\nThe fact that we are in great need of these tyres moves us to place this matter before your Excellency. We would also explain to you that our automobile business is the largest in the Far East and in volume exceeds that of most other establishments in other lines in the Philippines. We have sold approximately 2,000 pleasure cars and trucks, and the owners look to us for tyres, particularly Michelin of French manufacture.\n\nTo His Excellency Sir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G., Governor of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "We would also take this opportunity to remind Your Excellency that scarcely a week passes that we do not note merchandise arriving for German houses, via Hong Kong - cotton goods, drugs, &c. - that in our opinion is far more contraband of war than automobile tyres shipped by a French house, through a French port to another French house of established integrity.\n\nWe trust therefore that Your Excellency will use your good influences toward having this shipment promptly forwarded to us, inasmuch as we have already suffered considerable loss, which continues from day to day as long as we are without the tyres in question.\n\nAs to our position and standing we take pleasure in referring you to the British Consulate of this city, to any British firm or to any Manila bank.\n\nWe have &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\np.p. Levy Hermanos", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459887, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nH. B. M. Consulate-General,\n\nShanghai, 25th November, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my despatch of yesterday, I have the honour to report that the Yangtse Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, has now advertised an extraordinary meeting to go into voluntary liquidation and to transfer the business as a going concern to a new company to be registered at the German Consulate.\n\nThere are a few British shareholders who will apparently be offered shares in the new enemy company, according to the private and confidential circular issued.\n\nThe reason for the change is given as our coming Order in Council.\n\nIt is proposed to appoint as liquidator Boolsen, the manager of the Hamburg Amerika office here. I venture to suggest that the rights of the British shareholders would seem to call for the exercise of the powers of the Colonial Court under Article 192 of the Companies Ordinance of 1911.\n\nThe land of this Company is not like that of the other German Company registered at this office, which would have enabled us to have our shareholders indemnified by the liquidator.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) E. H. Fraser,\n\nConsul-General.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir H. May, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460921, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "content_text": "# Petition to Proceed to Zion City, America\n\n398\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nDoederlein in Leipzig, who saw things through. Being considered American, I did not come into any military service. After passing the final examination in Leipzig, I went in my 22nd year again to the States, where I worked with the founder of Zion City, Dr. Dowie, for two years. I then returned to Germany for 1 year, preparing and passing the examination in Leipzig Theol. College as D.D. \n\nAfter this, I followed an invitation from the founder of the China Inland Mission, Rev. Hudson Taylor, to act as his interpreter in Germany, Switzerland, and France, and I came out with him to China in 1896. Since that time, I have not been to Germany, had no connection whatever with Germany, and was told by the Consul General of Germany that he had no connection with me whatever.\n\nMy son Hans has been born here in China, is not registered in any German consulate, and has never been to Germany. We considered ourselves always at heart as Alsacians, politically as Americans, but never as Germans.\n\nWhen I wanted to explain things to the officer who boarded the China, I was told to wait till I was in Hongkong.\n\nTherefore, most honored Sir, it is my humble petition to let my son and myself go on to Zion City, America, to prepare a home there for my relatives from Feaumont, and my wife, who are now, since 20 months, again oppressed by the Prussians. If I had not had cancer for two years in my left arm, my place was not in China, but on the side of my brothers, who are giving blood and life to regain our homeland; and because the British nation is helping us in that heroic fight, we ask God to give us victory and our homeland. I have been 17 years in China without any rest and need rest very much.\n\nBut if it should be decided that I had to go to Australia, I would beg you, most honored Sir, to put my son and myself away from any German camp, as I do not want him to grow up among our enemies.\n\nI cannot write down all I feel about the situation, but I assure you that each word I wrote is spoken as before God. I can assure each statement with a holy oath.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## 1916 June\n\n35119 REC REG 25 JL\n\nDeubela Arabische Bank.\n\nTransmits copy Correspondence bet. Vice Consul & the Colonial Secretary.\n\nLast previous Paper: a Charge of US. Hamlett in Consulate `34915`.\n\nThe property to be put up to Auction in August.\n\nNext subsequent Paper: `2. Allyson Mr Read for Chwell see also 34915`\n\nThis paper shows that the premises with furniture will be sold at the auction in August; the reason for the special treatment of my hands does not seem to hold in this country.\n\nCopy of letter to Treasury with enclosure `34915`, `35119`.\n\nJoonas WL MAD9-6. 45,000 12/15. BM & 8. on 29426.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463548, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 640, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## COUNCIL\n\nThe Objections and Reasons state that Article 3 of the China (Amendment) Order-in-Council, 1910, provides as follows:-\n\n\"Where a person not belonging to Hongkong is sentenced to imprisonment and deportation under Article 2, and is sent for imprisonment to Hongkong, the Governor of Hongkong shall, if lawfully empowered thereto, deport such person to the place to which he was ordered by The Court to be deported and if not so empowered the Governor shall cause such person to be sent back to Shanghai.\"\n\nClause 2 of the Bill is included to give the Governor, so far as the competency of the local legislature extends, the necessary powers to enable him to carry out the duties indicated in the above article.\n\nIn the case of Hongkong and China companies, those companies which are managed here, the directors and officers are within our territorial jurisdiction, making it easy for the Courts to exercise effective jurisdiction over the company. But in the case of China companies managed from some place in China, which frequently have their officers and directors and property outside our territory, the Courts here are not in a position to exercise at present any effective control over the company. The only way in which control can be exercised over the company in China by the Supreme Court of China is, of course, through the person of the British officers and directors, and the main scheme of the Order-in-Council and the Bill is to ensure that a company registered in Hongkong, which carries on business in China and is managed from some place in China, shall have a certain proportion of British directors through whom control can be exercised over the Company.\n\nThe objects of clause 3 are (a) to provide that registration as British Consulate in China shall no longer be a bar to deportation; and (b) to define the form of the certificate of British birth.\n\n## THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL\n\nIn doing so, he said: This Bill, Sir, is supplementary to the China Companies Order-in-Council, 1915, which has just been issued by His Majesty-in-Council. The object of the Order-in-Council and this Bill is to enable better control to be exercised over companies carrying on business in China, and, incidentally, over Hongkong companies which are controlled from Hongkong. The companies registered in Hongkong which carry on business in China fall into two classes: companies which are managed from Hongkong, and companies which are managed from some place in China. The former class are given the name of Hong-China Companies, and the latter class, companies managed from some place in China, are given the name of \"China Companies.\" There may be some question as to the particular class under which a company should fall, and there may be a question whether the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over these companies will continue to be exercised in accordance with the Ordinances passed in Hongkong with respect to companies registered here.\n\nThere is one other point which I think I should refer to. It is known, of course, that a number of companies here have their register of shareholders not in Hongkong but at Shanghai and other coast ports, and this is done under a system of licences. When a Company is licensed to keep its register at some other place outside the Colony, the shares on that register pay no death duties, and transfer fees are not payable in respect of the transfer of shares. That, of course, has the effect of depriving the Colony of a certain amount of revenue, and the company, by way of compensation, pays an annual fee to the Government of Hongkong. Now when this Bill comes into force with the Order-in-Council on January 1st, the local registry of licences will disappear so far as China is concerned, but it was never expected that the fee payable by these companies to the Hongkong Government as compensation for the loss of revenue referred to would be abandoned, and the Bill provides that the fee shall continue to be paid to the Colonial Treasurer.\n\nIn addition to the alterations in the Companies Ordinances necessitated by the Order-in-Council to bring our law into line with the Order-in-Council, there are also some other amendments, none of which, I think, are of any far-reaching importance. Some are corrections of obvious mistakes; others are slight improvements in the form of the principal Ordinance. It is intended, Sir, that this Ordinance shall come into force on January 1st, which is the date upon which the Order-in-Council will come into force. I beg to move the second reading.\n\n## HON. MR. ...\n\nIn the future, in determining exactly in what category a company is formed, there may be some practical difficulty. Of course, I am aware that the learned Attorney-General has followed the wording of the China Order-in-Council, and I quite realise that he felt himself bound to do so. But, Sir, I think it is just as well to point out that I think this is a practical difficulty which might arise in the future.\n\nAnother point, Sir, which I would like to draw attention to is in connection with sub-section 4 of Clause 3 of the Bill, which says:-\"All fees which companies are required by the Companies Ordinance to pay to the Registrar of Companies shall, in the case of a China Company, be paid to the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai.\" Your Excellency will remember that in introducing the Budget for this year, you made use of the following expressions: \"Under 'Other Charges' there is a sum equivalent to £300 contributed from this Colony towards the cost of establishing a Registry of Companies which is to be established at Shanghai. This registry will be subordinate to the Hongkong Registry, and as the whole of the fees received will be paid over to the Hongkong Government, it is very desirable that the Colony should make a contribution towards the annual expense involved.\" There does seem to be a discrepancy between what fell from your Excellency and the provisions of sub-section 4 of Clause 3 of this Bill, and it seems to me that we were given to understand, when the Budget was introduced, that the fees would be paid over to the Hongkong Government.\n\nI rather confess I am bewildered at the roundabout procedure adopted and would like to know, definitely, really what arrangement has been come to-whether the Governor will be able to assure us that what His Excellency said in introducing the Budget is correct; and that the whole of the fees received from the companies will be paid over to the Hongkong Government. There is some doubt on the point, and it should be cleared up. I have a few small amendments to make when the Bill is in Committee.\n\n## HON. MR. POLLOCK\n\nI should like to say a few words upon this Bill, Sir. In the first place, it seems to me that the definition of \"China Companies\" and \"Hongkong and China Companies,\" respectively, are somewhat vague and likely to lead to some difficulty. I rather gather from what fell from the learned Attorney-General that the question of whether a company was directed or controlled in a particular place or not was in the main to be determined by the question of where the directors were. But, Sir, there are some companies in this Colony in which there are directors in three or four different places, and under three or four different jurisdictions, and therefore, Sir, I fancy that there might be some difficulty.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464551, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "## \n\n109\n\nMr. Punch, British Vice-Consul at Copenhagen answered that if the Belgian Legation or the Belgian Consul at Copenhagen would raise no objection, the British Consulate would give the export permit.\n\nThereupon the Belgian Consul at Copenhagen, after having discussed the matter with the Belgian Legation here, informed us that there was no objection to the export of the goods, and the late Mr. Punch, the British Vice-Consul, on hearing this, confirmed to the undersigned that the glass could be shipped, without mentioning anything as regards a special export permit from the Foreign Office in London being required.\n\nOn the strength of this assurance we bought the glass, and paid for same at once to the Belgian firm.\n\nWe then received the Consular certificate of origin, legalized by the Belgian Consul at Amsterdam which we sent to you and on presenting this document to the British and the Belgian Consulate at Copenhagen, we were given an export permit. The latter was forwarded by us to Messrs. Van Es & Van Ommeren, a Dutch firm of forwarding agents at Amsterdam, who are to ship the glass to Hongkong, but it was returned to us with the remark, that this paper was not sufficient and that we must have an export permit from the Foreign Office London.\n\nAccording to your telegram the Foreign Office in London...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465661, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 460, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "## Appendix \"A\"\n454 \n### Swatow Revolution. Extending telegrams sent.\n\n**British Consulate, Swatow, No.11. March 31, 1916.**\n\nSir,\n\nI now have the honour to extend the information which was summarized in my telegram numbered 2, 3, 4, and 5.\n\nIn the afternoon of March 27th, news reached me that the Ch'aoyang luchun, consisting of one ying had revolted under T'uan-chang ho Ching-yü, had seized the city, and commandeered two or three steam launches, for the use of which they paid, intending to proceed to Kityang, Ch'aochoufu, and Swatow and take possession of these places in the order named. I at once went over to see General Ma, and the French Consul came in a few minutes after I did. General Ma assured us that he could easily handle the situation, and that there was no reason to fear that any trouble would occur at Swatow. The same afternoon the revolutionaries were reported to be in possession of Chaochoufu, from which place Mo Ch'ing in-shu (the Ch'ao An Hsien), and Yi Chia-Chü (the Salt Commissioner), the two latter under compulsion, sent a joint telegram to the military officials, the Chief of Police, the Superintendent of Customs/Foreign Deputy, the Chamber of Commerce, and other public offices in Swatow, asking them to urge General Ma to throw in his lot with them, in order that fighting might be avoided. The Taoyin was not included because he left, ostensibly for Canton on public business, on the 21st March. No reply was sent to this telegram.\n\nMa received telegraphic orders from Canton to suppress the rising in five days. Varying rewards were promised for the arrest of the leaders, and thirty thousand dollars would be divided among ...\n\n**Right Honourable \nSir John Jordan, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., \nHis Majesty's Minister, \nPeking.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465663, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "## : 100 \n\nI received telegraphed to His Majesty's Consul-General to enquire whether Canton was sending troops, and his reply at 8 a.m. on the 1st April to the effect that three ying with six guns had left for Swatow on the morning of the 31st March. I visited personally the leading British subjects, and the foreign Consuls to convey the information and discuss the arrangements to be made. In this connection, I would state that the German Consul, Dr. von Borch, is working harmoniously with the rest of us. Under the Swatow Defence Scheme, the German Consulate is one of the rallying places for the Kialat residents, and as Dr. von Borch had intimated that British subjects would be welcome to go there in case of necessity, I deemed it only right, when on my round, to call and thank him, and give him the information about the despatch of troops from Canton, which he had not received. The Japanese Consul informed me that his advices by telegram from Canton were to the effect that no troops could be spared for Swatow.\n\nYour telegram No.2 was received on the 1st April, and the following arrangements were made by the \"Wilmington\". If the Commanding Officer believes that heavy guns are going to be used against Swatow, he will fire three guns at intervals of thirty seconds; hoist a red flag by day and a red lamp by night at the truck of the mast. After this signal, armed boats will be sent to the Customs chamber, and an armed launch with boat in tow will approach Kialat as near as the tide will allow, between the German and Japanese Consulates, to bring off all foreigners.\n\nIt may be of interest to know that, when the revolution was brought about, General He was allowed quietly to escape. He went out of the harbour in his own small gunboat, and is now believed to be at Ungkung (Huang Kang). The Taoyin's family, The Chief of Police, The Ch'aochoufu Salt Commissioner (one of the signatories of the telegram mentioned in paragraph 2 of this despatch),", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466455, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Copy 95604/45\n\n☛ No. 326.\n\nMy Lord:\n\nBritish Consulate General,\n\nSan Francisco.\n\nNovember 17, 1918.\n\n36\n\nC.O. 60237\n\nREC REGE DEC 18\n\nUS\n\ner: P04\n\nJuly 21/16 dispatch to F.O.\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith enclosed copy of a despatch which I thought advisable to send to His Excellency, the Governor-General of Hong-Kong, regarding rubber shipments from Sumatra.\n\nHis Excellency, in reply to my despatch to him of July 19, informed me that the Hong-Kong Agent of the Java-Japan Line\n\n\"has throughout shown himself anxious to observe the spirit and not merely the letter of the law, and has behaved with scrupulous correctness.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n(signed) A. Carnegie Ross.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General.\n\n& His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "About one month ago there arrived in the port of Hongkong 48 bales of French Michelin automobile tires consigned to the undersigned. These tires were shipped by the Michelin Tire Co, of Clermont-Ferrand France, through the port of Marseilles, France, to a French House in the Philippines.\n\nAccording to information which we receive from the British Consulate of this city these tires were held up in Hongkong as contraband of war.\n\nWe therefore furnished the British Consul, through the French Consul, all information concerning this shipment to us, and the invoices.\n\nHaving heard nothing further as a result of the action, we wish to call the attention of Your Excellency to the situation and at the same time express our great surprise that the government of Hongkong would hold up a shipment of this character, shipped by a French firm, through a French port without difficulty, to another French house in a neutral port.\n\nThe fact that we are in great need of these tires moves us to place this matter before Your Excellency. We would also explain to you that our automobile business is the largest in the Far East and in volume exceeds that of most other establishments in other lines in the Philippines.\n\nWe have sold approximately 2,000 pleasure cars and trucks and the owners look to us for tires, particularly Michelins of French manufacture.\n\nWe would also take this opportunity to remind Your Excellency that scarcely a week passes that we do not note merchandise arriving for German houses, via Hongkong cotton goods, drugs, etc., that in our opinion is far more contraband of war than automobile tires shipped by a French House, through a French port, to another French House of established integrity.\n\nWe trust, therefore, that Your Excellency will use your good offices to expedite the release of the tires.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466811, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "„TRI „BE,#00 \n\nVOOL\n\nBuxgnol to tog wilt at bevĚTLA MINIË” oge danom wao tuoda „FAİŞİN TƏ Bu ede od bargitano sa:E* «Iidoro.tur zi IndoJM Joger; to wsiad has 1-tnorteio to 100 »TIT ALI^{¤IM »** yd becqbia, ATAW BAI)“ AreaT Sapol AndATE A DI‚* PRANÍ meillertal to tioq mte darweld „PonETE\n\n+\n\n-nou reken de mort avlanet ww noble moftamrotni ot gatibo SOA Ludorfans me arolygoli nè qu bien szew neukt wanda ytło wid? ↑ STRİLM .Isu to\n\nSenard add quod*,banog dal$178 460 bmetakresif MINIMUMËT MË -xt wit be an No Trenqhín đḥat antarengan NOITARrotat [De\n\nLuanos .septor\n\ndolw ownof÷ha + to timer e sa Tediyot quinton Franc! snival wyn da bras moitauti- nde në gomiInox] way to mohteesta «ft Jiao ot stokprofi 9 TARCIA- Ad it matiqvum tanty ruɔ saanya wild amsa myft donek z eď beeglis, Tatortado #14+ *ɔ tranqbre a qu blo: bEzrova mi nared for 10'-\"TOSP N/ **IsoF790 ?pon+kw mroq fonass 2 Asword?\n\nbig ** wu bevor Bent* »zes* ya Sven Seery ii era me dada dost ady\n\nPak peng at nisiqre are tipo F wynttelinoxa way stated retran æift for at his dea: TAN 1944 at daegret wit »i sewaterd effdomofua ipo An Ad Max}[ sedto al adregialitatue reddo tune to tait abansota\n\nnant at estrimet bus wise Tursiq 900,5 vIntambrosqqa blon seed an\n\ndoneIT TO BA??-dol girafunkmaq damit zot By a+ % of ITADA AST B\n\n.Ayudastrosor\n\n*\n\nnais blooW H ded* gore (!noxi toy balms of ythæutro qo min» «gos\n\nI BITF mathnan nhan ton nên tự tại Hội dov I HAD LẠ\n\nBARDOA KEMIDE Two mi fan+,98% (8g/m3 (abung mo**9* -\n\ngasit attdozetwa na it saw to badastron\" AION TRT si nɔiniqo to Amro fɔrunt radione attraq tomark a fond+ magot dona1¶ » ytirgotai berint(dadan\n\nboog woy Ans: [{}w yorita : FAOXE Leor ted: erotarent,tærð AT\n\n32b\n\n392\n\ninfluences toward having this shipment promptly forwarded to us, inss- much as we have already suffered considerable loss, which continues from day to day as long as we are without the tires in question.\n\nAs to our position and standing we take pleasure in referring you to the British Consulate of this city, to any British firm or to any Hanila Bank.\n\nWe have, Sir, the honour to be,\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\np/p Levy Hermanos,\n\nSir Francis Henry May, 1.0.M.0...,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong,\n\nHongkong.\n\n: \n\nX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469427, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "(No. 12. Confidential.) Sir.\n\nEnclosure I in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Eastes to Mr. Alston.\n\nTengyueh, June 26, 1917.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 10 of the 11th instant, I have the honour to submit herewith a report on my recent opium-inspection tour in the southern and western circuits of this province.\n\nI am forwarding copies of this report to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma, and to His Majesty's Consul-General at Yünnan-fu.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. E. EASTES.\n\nReport on a Tour of Inspection for Opium in West and South Yunnan.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nTHE instructions of His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, communicating the arrangements made with the Wai-chiao Pu for the joint inspection of the province of Yünnan for opium, in accordance with the terms of the 1911 Agreement, reached me on the 7th March.\n\nMr. Alston informed me of the desire of the Government of India that the inspection should be as thorough as possible in the time available. The Governor of the province was to appoint the Chinese inspection delegates and arrange details with His Majesty's Consul-General at Yünnan-fu.\n\nMr. Goffe, through whom the above instructions were communicated to me, added that he had suggested that I should travel to Szemao—the treaty port in the southern or Puerh circuit—and thence to Tali and on to Likiang, and he enquired when I could start. I replied the following day that I could start in ten days' time.\n\nTwo days later I received a telegram from the Governor of Yunnan announcing that he had appointed Yu Jên-lung, the Taoyin of the Tengyueh circuit, to be the Chinese delegate. This was bad news indeed, for of the whole body of Chinese officialdom there was obviously no one with so material an interest in placing obstacles in the way of my discovering any opium crops in the Tengyueh circuit; while on personal grounds the appointment was singularly unfortunate, for of all the native officials with whom I have been brought into touch during a residence in China extending over sixteen years I can recall but two whom I should have been less likely, had the choice rested with me, to select as travelling companions.\n\nMr. Goffe, to whom I telegraphed for confirmation of the unwelcome tidings, made it clear that the appointment had been made entirely independently of himself, but gave small hope of his being able to procure its alteration.\n\nFrom the first, the Tengyueh Taoyin made it clear that he intended to put obstacles in the way both of an early start and of the exercise by me of unfettered discretion regarding the route to be followed. Having failed to induce me to agree to defer inspection of all places not yet officially declared free from opium, he attempted to discourage visits to a large number of localities alleged—in many instances, I believe, without the slightest foundation—to be fraught with danger to such a mission as ours. Simultaneously with these tactics, he bombarded me with demands, each more insistent than its predecessor, to communicate the route I proposed to take, so that adequate arrangements might be made in advance for my protection. My original refusal, based on the precedents afforded by joint inspection of other provinces in previous years, was subsequently, with the approval of His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, modified by communicating a bare outline of the projected tour.\n\nThe result was what I had expected. The first district mentioned on my meagre list was Lungling, already reported entirely free from opium; not twenty-four hours later, two more Chinese deputies were despatched to tour the Lungling district, to make assurance doubly sure.\n\nOn the 18th March a letter from the Taoyin acquainted me with the news that the inspection of the Province of Kueichow and of the eastern circuit of Yunnan was to be carried out by Mr. B. C. Tours, C.M.G., His Majesty's Consul at Ichang. On the 24th March Mr. Yu Jên-lung sent me an official despatch notifying the receipt of a telegram from the provincial capital announcing that the Hjuen Taoyin was to be the Chinese delegate for the joint inspection of the places which I had announced my intention of traversing in that circuit. Next day came a tactless letter to say that, by the orders of the Provincial Governor, my entertainment was to be a charge on Chinese hospitality; fortunately I contrived to evade both this most unwelcome attention and also that of an escort of Chinese troops which it was designed to detail for my safety on the road throughout the tour.\n\nOn the 27th March, the eve of the date finally fixed for the start, the Taoyin called to learn the route suggested for the first day's trip. Although Lungling, south-east of Tengyueh, had been mentioned first on the rough outline of my projected tour, I had particular reasons for not wishing to travel thither by the normal direct route. Firstly, not two months had elapsed since I had passed over the road in the reverse direction, on my return from the January Frontier Meeting, without seeing any trace of opium poppy. Moreover, I was anxious to see the present condition of the fields alongside the mountainous track between Nantien and Lungling, which, as mentioned in my Opium Report for the December quarter, 1916, Mr. R. U. Grierson, Assistant, Tengyueh Customs, had described as an almost unbroken succession of opium cultivations. I therefore announced to the Taoyin that I proposed to stop the first night at Nantien. In spite of the frankest betrayal of colossal ignorance of the geography in the immediate vicinity of his own post—he enquired blandly if the main road to Lungling (three days' journey south-east of Tengyueh) did not pass through Kuyung, two days to the north-west, and only a day's journey from the frontier of the Myitkyina district!—Mr. Yu nevertheless seemed to have some idea that the neighbourhood of Nantien was an undesirable one—from his point of view—for a search for opium crops; and I had to insist, gently but firmly, that my knowledge of the localities in the Tengch'ung district, where troops were being employed in connection with poppy eradication, was by no means inferior to his own. I was also able to counter his second line of argument, that we could not reach Nantien in one day's journey, and he yielded finally a reluctant acquiescence in my arrangements. His last bolt was not, however, shot, and late at night he sent a lengthy missive advancing the contention that the route between Nantien and Lungling would take us through the zone of military operations against the unsubdued Kachin opium cultivators. To show weakness now would have been hopelessly impolitic, but it was past midnight before I signed and despatched the letter demolishing all his arguments and holding him to his word given to me some hours previously.\n\nNo reply was vouchsafed, and I therefore despatched my caravan betimes the next morning, the 28th March, and proceeded to the rendezvous with the Taoyin. He had apparently accepted the inevitable; a verbal message was brought to me that, as he was late in starting, he did not propose to descend from his chair; would I, therefore, kindly proceed?\n\nNantien witnessed the last despairing effort of the Tengyueh Taoyin to combat my daily tour programme. I had already retired to bed when a letter of ominous length arrived; Mr. Yu professed information that the route suggested by me for the morrow had been wantonly obstructed by a formidable barrier of timber. I roused myself and the uncomplaining writer to reply that my information did not tally, and that I frankly disbelieved the report. I promised, however, that if on the morrow or at any other time during our travels we encountered obstructions, I would turn aside and avoid them. Some time after 2 A.M. I was roused once more to blink at the dawn-song of the Taoyin's objections. In view of my undertaking, solemnly repeated in extenso, he resigned himself to following my rash lead.\n\nNeedless to say, we encountered no trace of the alleged timber-barrier obstructing the path; but after some two hours' journey the consulate writer and I found a field of opium-poppy, measuring roughly some 70 feet by 35 feet, round a bend a few hundred yards off the road. When we arrived, the owner, a woman of A-Chuang race, in a paroxysm of weeping, was plucking up the full-blown plants—presumably in obedience to orders from advance emissaries of the Taoyin's party. The Taoyin contented himself with despatching one of his numerous attendant underlings to inspect the field, and on the strength of his report sent me the same evening a letter minimising the incident.\n\nOn the 31st March our route joined the main Lungling road at Manlo, just above the wire rope suspension bridge over the Shweli; for the past three or four weeks this bridge had been closed for the retimbering of the roadway, and the honour of reopening it to the traffic was reserved for our cavalcade. At the head of the stiff ascent on the left bank of the Shweli we were met by the Lungling magistrate, Hsiu Ming-ch'ang, formerly senior frontier deputy at Tengyueh, and an old acquaintance; he assured me with cheerful confidence that no matter what part of his district I might visit, I should ...\n\nPage 297", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "fail to find a single opium-poppy. On arrival at Lungling, the consulate writer and I were entertained to a Chinese dinner-party in his yamên,\n\nThe discovery of only one solitary field of opium along the route between Nantien and Lungling must, I think, be taken as evidence of the strenuous efforts which have been made during the past few months to eradicate all traces of the prescribed plant; from one or two more talkative residents encountered en route I obtained admissions of a considerable recrudescence of cultivation during last year, but all agreed as to the thorough measures of suppression carried out since November last. In the T'engch'ung district, for instance, no less than three separate expeditions of eradication had been sent out, under territorial, military, and police officials respectively, and it is only just to place on record that their duties were performed in a very thorough manner.\n\nThe normal order of procedure was for my caravan, headed by the writer and myself, to take the lead, and for the Taoyin's more imposing party to bring up the rear. The 1st April was, however, appropriately celebrated by the failure of the Taoyin's party to keep touch with us at a parting of the ways, this added some 2 miles for them to the long and undulating road to Siangta. Thence to P'ingka is normally reckoned as a single though lengthy stage for caravans; at the Taoyin's request we split it into two, halting at the small hamlet of Huchiachal, 7,000 feet high, picturesquely situated in the midst of dense groves of bamboos. At Huchiachal we encountered our first rain, and thereafter we had not a single rainless day until the 19th April. From Pingka to Hankuai, high above the right bank of the Salween, with a magnificent view of the lofty mountains on the other side, was another long day's march.\n\nThe crossing of the Salween was a tedious business for so large a cavalcade; two bamboo rafts were provided, taking only some five mule-loads or ten men on each trip; the method of propulsion across the swift current was by a species of flat umbrella fashioned of stout bamboo; at each end of the craft an \"oarsman\" plied one of these cumbrous weapons by plunging it into the water and pulling it towards himself with powerful strokes.\n\nArrived at the left bank of the Salween, we were in the Chênk'ang district; and at the head of the very long and stiff ascent from the river we were met by the local magistrate, Tang Te-ch'uan, a pleasant elderly official, who travelled with us until we left his jurisdiction. Tê-tang, where his official residence is, was our third halt after crossing the Salween; this place was made memorable for me by a sufficiently unhappy experience. Somewhere about A.M. a gale of wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, brought my tent down over my head, and my slumbers to a beautifully abrupt close.\n\nThe town of Chênk'ang was reached next day. Formerly there was a Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Chenkung, but his downfall was brought about as the result of the Manchu viceroy, Hsi Liang's, policy for the gradual absorption of the Chinese Shan States into direct Chinese administration; and save for a few picturesque ruins of the Sawbwa's palace, the place is now shorn of any pomp and circumstance it may have once possessed.\n\nTwelve days' travel, although for the most part along comparatively unfrequented routes, had now disclosed but one solitary field of opium-poppy, and I therefore decided on a somewhat rash experiment. None of the four maps of Yunnan which I took with me gave any indication of a road from Chênk'ang to Mienning, the next district town on my list, and the recognised routes between these two places are circuitous in the extreme, passing through either Shunning or Yünchow. I ascertained, however, that a road practicable for chairs existed, and elected to attempt it. Fortunately, by this time the Tengyueh Taoyin had resigned himself to accepting my lead, or he would almost certainly have protested. For five days we followed the roughest of mountain paths, which had in many places to be prepared overnight for our transit by the felling of trees and clearing of jungle. At none of the intermediate halts, Pank'a, Maulung, Hup'o, and Manlai, we were assured, had a white traveller ever been seen, and I cannot recommend my example as one to be lightly followed. The only camping-ground to be found at Manlai was on a wind-swept spur projecting out of a deep ravine, and once again a sudden hurricane brought my tent crashing down.\n\nBelow Manlai our route crossed the Namting River by a ford which would obviously be impracticable during the heavier rains of midsummer. At the Namting we quitted the Chênk'ang district and entered the jurisdiction of the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Kengma. During our six days of travel through Chenkang territory we had found no opium crops whatever, though I learnt that there had been a small harvest of the earliest sown poppy. The magistrate was said, however, to have been indefatigable in the work of eradication, and I was assured—not by himself—that since November of last year he had never been in residence at his post for five consecutive days.\n\nDuring our day and a-half through the jurisdiction of the Kengma Sawbwa we were escorted by his Shan-Chinese clerk, who was full of his recent visit to Rangoon and Lashio in attendance on his master. The road from the left or south-east bank of the Namting River was a terribly steep ascent for some 3,000 feet, which we negotiated in pouring rain; this was succeeded by a hair-raising path—with an average breadth of 14 inches at the most—for some 5 miles along the edge of a precipice. After the heavy rain the surface of red laterite was so treacherously slippery that I felt safer on my sure-footed Yunnan pony than on my own legs.\n\nOur next halt, the Shan village of Chepi, was on a route traversed more than twenty years ago by H. R. Davies, the standard authority on the province of Yunnan, and doubtless by other foreigners since; here for the first time I abandoned my tent, in favour of a comparatively clean temple.\n\nAt this point we were met by a guard of honour sent out to meet us by the P'uêrh Taoyin, who had arrived at Mienning, our pre-arranged meeting-place, on the 11th April. I owe the noisy but efficient commandant a debt of gratitude for his thorough arrangements for my comfort at each of our halting places throughout the Mienning district.\n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chêpi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days' travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium-poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires.\n\nOn my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one; he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a-half days' journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th: Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mienning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the Puerh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour. The Puerh Taoyin, Lu Pang-shun, a Kiangsu man aged 56, has held office for the past twenty-one years in Yunnan, and possesses a very thorough knowledge of the province. Two periods of service he has spent in Tengyueh, first as sub-prefect in Manchu times, and secondly as taotai under the Republic in 1913. The Mienning magistrate, Hsieh Yunan, has formerly held a billet in the War Office in Peking; he struck me as being unusually intelligent and capable.\n\nAt Pingyehhsün, where we halted for the night, the two Taoyins came over to call. From the first, Mr. Lu showed up very favourably beside his Tengyueh colleague, and displayed a friendly acquiescence in my suggestions with regard to our joint tour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages. On arrival at the city, we were escorted for a sort of Jericho-tour round the walls before being conducted to the old lieutenant-general's yamên, especially done up for the occasion, where ample quarters were provided for both Taoyins and their escorts, and a refreshingly clean and well-aired suite of rooms was set apart for me.\n\nMy caravan had now been on the move for nineteen consecutive days; men and animals had, I felt, well earned a rest, and I accepted without compunction the friendly invitation of Lu Taoyin and the magistrate to stop over one day in Mienning. The first night they entertained the Tengyueh Taoyin and myself at dinner; the next day they gave me a bathing-party picnic at a hot sulphur spring some 3 miles outside the town.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by Lu Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked Mr. Lu point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season.\n\n[2729 -1]\n\n298", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "7\n\nseason, but that all had been uprooted by expeditions sent out in November and I see December, and there was no trace of any remaining when he came out.\n\nIt was no reason whatever to doubt this statement, but even if it was untrue, it was practically certain that there would not be a single plant left after his passing through; I therefore decided to take an entirely different road for our joint journey and selected the southern route via Poshang, the Tapeng ferry over the Mekong, Mengka, and Mengchu. This is a fairly well recognised, though little used, road, but I possess records of only isolated portions as having been previously traversed by British subjects.\n\nThe first two days' journey from Mienning via Poshang to Toukuo call for no special comment beyond the unusually good condition of the road-surface. Nature has so fashioned the province of Yunnan as to render it practically impossible for the road-builder to make the crooked straight; for some weeks prior to our passing through, however, human labour had done a great deal to make the rough places plain. In spite of pouring rain on the second day, we encountered no really serious obstacles.\n\nOn the 19th April, at the Taoyin's suggestion, we made a very early start in view of the formidable journey in front of us. After 6 miles of easy going, we reached the limits of the Mienning jurisdiction and bade farewell to the magistrate. No trace of opium poppy had we seen in his district, in which, as far as I could ascertain, he and his subordinates had carried out their suppression duties with exceptional thoroughness. The next 7 miles traversed a corner of what is now known as the Lants'ang (i.e., Mekong) district—formerly the sub-prefecture of Chênpien—and the going was very severe, though it must, in all fairness, be admitted that the country is extremely difficult, including a terrific descent for 3 miles through constantly subsiding red clay to the level of the River Mekong (2,750 feet). The crossing of the Mekong is effected in a single huge wooden boat with deep sides; mules and their loads are transported in this craft, the river-current being too swift to admit of the animals swimming across without danger. The ascent up the left or east bank of the Mekong is even more severe, and for 2 miles the ruling gradient is steeper than one in six. The consulate writer and I reached the halting-place about 2:20 P.M., followed about an hour later by the Taoyin and his party, who took up their quarters in a native hovel close to our selected camping site. Realising our discomfiture at the non-arrival of our mule-loads, Mr. Lu with friendly thoughtfulness sent us over a supply of tea and Australian biscuits, to which I at least did unhesitating justice. It was not till after sunset that the rest of my caravan turned up. At one of the steepest points of the descent to the Mekong the mule entrusted with my small but precious supply of glass and crockery had missed his footing and rolled headlong, load and all, for several hundred feet, and rescue had taken much time; further, heavy delay had been caused by the passage of the Mekong with but one unwieldy boat, to which the liveliest objection was displayed by most of the mules.\n\nTwo stages further, through pine-woods tenanted by peacocks and brilliant emerald-green parrots, brought us to the Chinese Shan town of Mêngka. At Tamotacho, the half-way halt, we came across a few families of Lahu race, said to be rapidly dying out in China. Given a plentiful supply of soap, water, and combs, the smaller children could, I am convinced, be made into strikingly pretty little gipsies.\n\nShortly before reaching Mêngka we were met by the Chingku district magistrate, La Kuang-shih, a Kuangsi man, who accompanied us so long as we continued in his extensive jurisdiction. Mêngka, the residence of a Shan Sawbwa, possesses also large temples and two monasteries in the Burmese Shan style; one in particular, over 200 years old, must have been very fine in bygone days.\n\nAt Liutsungt'eu'n, our halt mid-way between Mêngka and Mengchu, the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of the latter place, and Meng'an came over to pay his respects; both the excellence of his Chinese and his appearance gave the lie, I fancied, to his boasted pure Shan parentage. Mêng'an is one of the old Shan towns whence the original inhabitants have been practically ousted by the more thriving Chinese. Here, I was given fairly decent quarters in the temple of the god of war, now converted into a school, the discipline of which struck me as unusually good; the very natural curiosity at the arrival in their midst of the first white man ever beheld by any of the ninety scholars was never allowed to exceed the bounds of politeness.\n\nOn the 25th April, two days after leaving Mêngchu, we crossed the River Weiyuan (or Chingku, as it is now gradually becoming known) at Patieh. At this season of the year the stream is just fordable here: I managed, however, to find a place not much higher up where a swim proved welcomely refreshing. The next halt bore the ill-omened name of Ch'ou-Shui (\"Stinking Water\"), but I have stayed at many places in Yunnan where the water supply has been even worse. Two days later, after passing a few villages inhabited by natives of the strikingly handsome Puman race, we entered the Szemao district and were met by the local magistrate, Hsieh Shih; the following day, the 28th April, we arrived at Szemao, where spacious quarters were provided for me adjoining the Taoyin's Yamên. The Taoyin and magistrate pressed me to stay a week in Szemao; I consented to two days, but on the second day Mr. Lu urged that he still had important business to transact, and I could hardly refuse his request that we should postpone our departure for one more day. Both he and the magistrate were most hospitable during my stay, celebrated by two Chinese dinner-parties and a picnic.\n\nPrevious to my departure for Tengyuen, I had written to the commissioner of Szemao Customs, soliciting his co-operation to obtain for me, if possible, information on the subject of opium in the area under his cognisance. With that request M. R. de Nully, the commissioner (French), very courteously complied; he informed me quite definitely that, as the result of several punitive expeditions during the past winter, there was, as far as he was aware, no more cultivation of opium in the Szemao district, and that while probably at least 30 per cent. of the adult population of the town, both male and female, still continued to consume the drug, the enormous rise in price bore out his contention.\n\nFrom Szemao northwards towards Tali three routes were open to me; that via Chingku (Weiyuan) was ruled out by the fact that it had already been traversed by Lu Taoyin on his journey to Mienning to meet me; on the north-eastern route, via Talang—the main road to Yunnan-fu according to all the information I could obtain, a considerable quantity of opium had been grown, and harvested, earlier in the season, but very thorough measures of eradication had been carried out some weeks previously; I therefore decided to take the more direct but less frequented route via P'uêrh, Hsinfu (in Chênyüan district) and Chingtung.\n\nLeaving Szemao on the 2nd May, some three hours of travel, including a stiff climb, brought us to the boundary of the Puerh district, where the local magistrate, Chou Ju-chao, awaited us; the Szemao magistrate, however, continued to accompany us till the town of Puerh was reached the next day; on this day's journey our route crossed a splendid Chinese arched stone bridge, in admirable preservation. At Puerh, an old walled city with relics of fine stone carving, I was again given most comfortable quarters; Mr. Chou also entertained the Taoyin, the Szemao magistrate, and myself at a lengthy Chinese dinner.\n\nAt Mabei, the next stage, I took the opportunity to pay a visit to the large and flourishing salt mines about a mile and a half away. Dr. Kelly, the American representative of the Chinese Salt Administration, who had arrived about two months previously, was away on tour, but his English-speaking Chinese colleague very kindly demonstrated to me all the processes of Chinese salt extraction.\n\nThe next four stages, via Mop'o, Maupieh and Manlien, to Hsin-fu, call for little comment save for the extreme beauty of the scenery; on all sides rose range after range of pine-clad hills, mostly well-wooded to their summits; the valleys were, however, parched and bare, and travelling along the lower levels was excessively hot. Our route crossed the eastern section of the Chênyüan district, and midway during the third stage we were joined by the magistrate, Mo Yu-ju, a scholarly man of considerable charm of manner, with whom my relations during our five days of joint travel were exceedingly cordial, and from whom I parted with really genuine regret.\n\nThe only record in my possession of a route between Hsinfu and Chingtung dated from 1881, when the journey was made by a British traveller; our route, however, was almost entirely different from his, and we spent but five days on the distance which had taken him six. For the last three days we were accompanied by the Chingtung magistrate, Ming Fao-ch'ien, who came out to meet us. The surroundings of Chingtung breathe of ancient history; the last 5 miles of the road could hardly have been repaired for centuries, while of the city-wall nothing now remains save one single gate; peacocks strutting unmolested in the main street seemed likewise aloof from modernity. The magistrate's yamên was woefully dilapidated, and I was well housed by comparison in the newly built Szech'uan Guild premises. From Szemao we had travelled for twelve days on end, mostly in great heat, and a halt of one day was amply justified. For me it spelled the inevitable Chinese dinner-party, as the guest of the district magistrate.\n\nThis latter official was also among the number of those who have displayed special energies in the matter of opium suppression; practically every town and hamlet which\n\n299", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "306\n\n(No. 14.) Sir,\n\n20\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Brown to Mr. Alston.\n\nKiukiang, May 8, 1917\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith a report on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in the province of Kiangsi jointly with officials appointed by the Chinese Government in accordance with article 4 of the Opium Agreement of 1911.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nReport on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in the Province of Kiangsi.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that Messrs. Chien Kuang-hsi and Huang Tao-hsiung, the Chinese delegates appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior, reached Kiukiang on the 16th March, and left with me by rail on the 19th March for Southern Kiangsi via Nanchang and the River Kan. This route was selected as the most practicable in view of the information in the possession of the consulate, which showed that the cultivation of opium poppy had been completely eradicated in the plains and low-lying parts of the province, and that any opium which might exist would be found in remote places in the mountains. On this point Protestant and Catholic missionaries, native informants, and the local Chinese press were unanimous. The mountainous regions of Kanchou, Yü Tu, Hsing Kuo, Ningtu, and Ihuang in the south and south-east and the range of hills lying on the borders of Chien Chang, An, and Chingan in the north-west were generally regarded as suspicious localities, and I therefore determined to visit these districts in succession. Owing to the difference in climate between the north and south of the province, the poppy flowering three weeks earlier in the Kanchou region than in the An district, we directed our course first to the south.\n\nOur party, augmented by deputies despatched by the provincial administration and escorts of soldiers and police, left Nanchang early on the morning of the 21st March in seven junks, and were towed by steam launches up the Kan River to Wanan. Here on the 28th March we left the river and proceeded by chair to Kan Hsien (formerly Kan Chou), where we arrived on the 30th March.\n\nEnquiries were made by me at the Protestant and Catholic mission stations touched at en route from Nanchang, and I was everywhere informed that the rigorous measures of the magistrate and anti-opium officials had effectually suppressed opium-poppy cultivation in those districts.\n\nThe Protestant and Catholic missionaries at Kan Hsien were equally emphatic on this point, and assured me that it would be waste of time to visit the hills in that region. I accordingly pressed on to Yü Tu, which was reached on the 2nd April, after an exceedingly difficult two days' march.\n\nAs Yü Tu was one of the few districts in which opium poppy was known to have been grown in 1916, I determined to pay particular attention to this region, and after passing the district city, I left the road, climbed the most difficult part of the mountain range, and proceeded inland for a couple of hours' journey, looking with a pair of powerful field-glasses at the pockets of land lying between the hills. In this way I was able to satisfy myself beyond doubt that no opium poppy was under cultivation in an area of many square miles. I eventually regained the main road by a different route, and in the afternoon scaled the mountains to the south-west by a woodcutter's path. Here I spent some four hours in a careful inspection of the surrounding country, and returned convinced that no opium poppy was grown there, as I had been able to see the crops over an area of more than 12 square miles. The climbing in this part of the country was so difficult that only two officers and a few of the soldiers were able to accompany me. We reached the borders of Hsing Kuo district before turning back. I did not enter that district as I had received information at Kan Hsien that opium poppy had been eradicated in that region in 1916 after a severe fight between the troops and the people, in the course of which several persons had been killed and wounded and many houses burned.\n\n21\n\nOn the 5th April we arrived at Ningtu, where we were forced to rest for one day owing to the exhaustion of our party. Many of the soldiers were brought in in chairs, as they were quite unable to walk.\n\nAt Ningtu, Mr. and Mrs. Seipel, German missionaries in charge of the China Inland Mission station in that city, gave me a most cordial welcome, and assured us that the poppy was believed to be extinct in that region. The resident Chinese Catholic priest, however, supplied me with the name of one possible opium-poppy-growing locality, the Mi Shih Chai mountain, 70 li from Ningtu, on the road to Ihuang.\n\nOn the 8th April we left in a northerly direction for Ihuang, and stopped the night at Lo K'ou. Here eight people were shot in 1915 in an affray between the opium growers and the troops despatched to carry out suppression work.\n\nThe Mi Shih Chai mountain was situated some 10 li from Lo K'ou, and early on the morning of the 9th April we mounted it by a difficult path, and spent five hours in a careful exploration of the countryside. This region is said to be infested with tigers, so extra precautions were taken for the safety of our party. No poppy could be discovered anywhere, and the remains of the previous year's crops seen in the fields showed that none had been grown last year.\n\nWe arrived at Ihuang on the 11th April, and from there proceeded to Lin Ch'uan (formerly Fu Chou), where we embarked on board junks and were towed by steam launch to Tu Chia Pu, in the Chien Ch'ang district. As the country was flooded we were able to make use of certain shallow channels and short cuts, whereby we saved between one and two days' time.\n\nIn the range of mountains lying on the borders of the three districts of Yung Hsiu (formerly Chien Ch'ang), An, and Ching An, the names of Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'iu had been given as possible opium-poppy-growing localities, and we therefore proceeded from Tu Chia Pu, via Yung Hsiu district city to Pai Ch'a, which appeared to be the most convenient centre for visiting the places in question. Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'iu were found to be in close proximity, and on the 17th April I made a careful inspection and traversed the district without finding any trace of poppy, although the paths we took led us well into the heart of the hills away from the main roads. From here we crossed the mountains to An and entered the more level country leading to Feng Hsin and Kao An (formerly Jui-chou Fu). We arrived at Kao An on the 20th April. My intention had been to proceed to Shangkao and the Wan Tsai district, but in view of the advanced date and the favourable information received from the missionaries at Kao An it appeared waste of time to investigate further in this direction, and I accordingly returned to Kiukiang via Nanchang. I spent a day and a half in the provincial capital as the guest of the civil Governor, and returned to my post at Kiukiang on the 24th April.\n\nMethod of Inspection.\n\nIn those districts where the names of possible opium-poppy-growing localities had been furnished, the Chinese delegates and I visited and inspected each of the places in question. In those regions where it was commonly believed that poppy might possibly be found somewhere in the hills, I picked out the highest and most accessible part of the mountain range, ascended it by any track that could be found, and proceeded inland or along the crest for some miles until I had satisfied myself by the aid of powerful field-glasses that no poppy was under cultivation. In order to obtain fuller information as to the crops, official anti-opium proclamations, people, and general conditions, I walked for the greater part of the overland journey, and was thereby enabled to see much that might otherwise have escaped my notice.\n\nRelations with Chinese Officials.\n\nFrom first to last I have met with the utmost courtesy and consideration at the hands of the military and civil governors and their subordinates. The district magistrates and the gentry of every district visited have extended the heartiest hospitality to me as the representative of His Majesty's legation. Every facility was given me for visiting and inspecting any part of the country, and my wishes were met in every respect.\n\nThe successful organisation of our party reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Wang Nien-tsu, the Kiukiang magistrate, and the officers under his control. It is entirely due to ...\n\n[2729 k-1]\n\nG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "24\n\n25\n\n308\n\nmatter to persuade porters to carry for us. hospitable manner.\n\nBoth sides welcomed me in u most\n\nActivity of Secret Societies.\n\nThe Triad Secret Society has long been active in Southern Kiangsi, but of late there has arisen a new society commonly known as the Chi T'an Hui, although it is probable that it flourishes under other local names. This society is growing in strength in the south and south-west particularly among the agricultural population. Temples have been built and members initiated in increasing numbers and charms of invincibility and of protection against malign influences are sold and exhibited in the country places.\n\nA curious rumour has arisen among the Chinese to the effect that the new society has some secret connection with Li Lieh-chun and Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The explanation given is that Li and Sun fear a future return to the monarchial régime, and that they hope to use the members of the Chi Tan Hui as the nucleus of a Republican army. I understand also that many young men from Kiangsi have been given good positions in Kuangtung by Li Lieh-chun in order that they may acquire experience in anticipation of the time of trouble. If it be true that Dr. Sun Yat-sen is connected in some way with the Chi Tan Hui, he may reasonably have had some ground for alluding to the possibility of a second Boxer trouble in his telegram to Mr. Lloyd George.\n\nThe officials in general deny the existence of the society. The Garrison Commissioner at Kan Hsien, however, admitted that it had existed in the Kan Nan circuit two years before, but that orders had been issued to the magistrates for its suppression. No proclamations against secret societies were seen by me anywhere on my journey in the interior.\n\nIn any case the gentry are behind the Chi Tan Hui, and its progress merits close attention. The society advocates the return to the primitive faith of the lani, or, in other words, devil worship, a doctrine which appeals peculiarly to the people of these parts, and claims to have the direct protection of Heaven. The general tendency of the movement is therefore anti-missionary, but the resistance is so far passive and inappreciable. That the movement may hereafter develop a more serious aspect is shown by the following extracts from the correspondence of missionaries in the interior:\n\nMr. Hall, of the China Inland Mission at Lung Ch'uan, writes:-\n\nIf\n\nThe Chi-tan is if anything in a more flourishing state than ever throughout the whole Hsien of Lung Chuan, and some of the church members and enquirers are having a hard time of it. If something is not done soon to check it, sooner or later there is certain to be serious trouble. We hear that Wang Chih Shih received a proclamation to put out against it, but yielded to the entreaties of the gentry not to do so. As far as we know, the only places in Wanan Hsien where they dare to carry on the Chi-tan are on the borders of Lung Ch'uan.\"\n\nMr. Horne, of the China Inland Mission at Nanchang, writes:-\n\n\"At our provincial conference from the 4th to 10th April, many of the missionaries testified to the prevalence of this sect in their districts, and were at a loss to know how best to meet it. It certainly is a rapidly growing and serious menace to foreigners and mission work. It is to be hoped that they may soon overstep themselves and meet with repressive measures before any great harm is done.\"\n\nI have requested the missionaries throughout the province to furnish me with information as to the development of this society, and propose to take action as soon as a concrete case is brought to my notice.\n\nGeneral Trade Conditions.\n\nJapanese goods, mainly soap, scent, trinkets, thread, medicines, and toys figure conspicuously in most of the shops in the area visited where Japanese agents are also actively engaged in the collection of camphor, tea, oil, &c. In the two cities untaken by the Taipings, Nanchang and Kan Hsien, British and general foreign goods were found in considerable quantities. In general, the speed at which we were forced to travel prevented me from making extensive enquiries as to trade conditions. For the most part the towns visited had not recovered from the devastation of the Taiping rebellion. In the Wanan district and to the south and east of Kan Hsien ruthless deforestation now results in periodical floods of a severe nature which are a serious handicap to the local trade. In 1915 every house in Wanan district city was destroyed by water, and other cities have suffered in varying degree from the same cause.\n\nItinerary and State of Roads.\n\nMarch 19-Kiukiang to Nanchang (by rail)\n\n21-28.-Nanchang to Wanan (by water). 29-30.-Wanan to Kan Hsien (by road)\n\n73\n\nApril 1-2.-Kan Hsien to Yu Tu\n\nLi\n\n275\n\n644\n\n218\n\n170\n\nH\n\n3-5.-Yu Tu to Ningtu\n\n... \n\n240\n\n7-10.-Ningtu to Ihwang\n\n21\n\n} \n\n280\n\n+1\n\n11-12.-Ihuang to Lin Ch'uan (\n\n17\n\n>... \n\n120\n\n13-15.-Lin Chuan to Tu Chia Po (by water).\n\n310\n\nH↑\n\n\"\n\n16.-Tu Chi Po to Pai Ch'a (by road)\n\n50\n\nF\n\n\"\n\nELT\n\n17.-Pai Ch'a to Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'uan Shan Chiu (by road) 18-19 Ch'uan Shan Chiu to Pung Hsin (by road)\n\n71\n\n114\n\nTH\n\n++\n\n\"\n\n20-Feng Hsin to Kao An (by road)\n\n60\n\n11\n\n21-22.—Kao An to Nanchang (by water) ...\n\n190\n\n2,748\n\n150\n\n2,898\n\nVisits in mountain regions away from main road (say)\n\nTotal Li\n\n-\n\nI have\n\nRoads. The roads by which our party travelled consist in the main of narrow tracks across a series of mountain ranges and valleys where rivers wandering in sandy channels are crossed on the flimsiest and most insecure of bridges. Planks or thin tree trunks of a total width of from 1 to 4 feet supported on rickety scaffolding extend from bank to bank across a space of from 20 to 1,000 and more feet. I crossed one of 85 spans of 20 feet. The crossing of such bridges on a wet dark night is a strain on the nerves and endurance of the hardiest person, and ten or more of these bridges may be encountered in a single day's journey. There is no vestige of a handrail and one is forced to make one's way across them as best one can. Travel in these parts is arduous, particularly in the spring which is the rainy season in Kiangsi province. To be carried across rough mountain-roads by amateur chair-bearers is an experience that must be felt to be truly appreciated. Better roads of course exist, but they did not serve the purpose of opium-poppy investigation.\n\nThe li are in general longer than in other parts of China, 2 and not 3 li being frequently the equivalent of 1 English mile, so that the actual mileage traversed by our party exceeded 1,000 miles.\n\nSir,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Kiukiang,\n\nMay 4, 1917.\n\nEnclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Smith to Mr. Alston.\n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN.\n\nSwatow, April 16, 1917. I HAVE the honour to report that, in accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch of the 5th ultimo, I left Swatow on the 19th ultimo, in company with the Chinese delegates, on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium-poppy in Kwangtung, and returned to Swatow yesterday. All preparations for the journey had been completed several days beforehand in Swatow, but no start was possible until after the arrival of the delegates from Canton. The time at our disposal for the journey was only about a month, as the poppy harvest is practically over by the middle of April.\n\nThe Chinese officials who accompanied me were: Mr. Lam Hi Chow, the chief secretary to the Chao Hsün Taoyin, who was the representative of the Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, the principal Chinese delegate Mr. Kum Yung Fan, the secretary to, and delegate of, the Opium Suppression Bureau, Canton; and two interpreters, Mr. Hoang Tsou Yn, English and French interpreter to the civil Governor, Canton; and Mr. Lau Wai Chi, English interpreter to the Chao Hsün Taoyin.\n\n[2729-\n\n1]\n\nI}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469439, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "309\n\n20\n\nThe principal districts in which the opium-poppy was previously grown are Chieh Yang, Pu Ning, Feng Shun, Ch'ao Yang, Chao An, and Jao Ping, the two latter in a much less degree, but nowhere have I been able to discover a single plant.\n\nThe information received at this consulate from Chinese and missionary sources was to the effect that very little, if any, poppy had been planted in the autumn of 1916 in the Ch'ao Yang, Chao An, and Jao Ping districts, in the east of Chieh Yang, the east and south of P'u Ning, and the north and east of Feng Shun, and that what little had been planted had been uprooted as soon as the shoots appeared, none being left growing at the end of the year. This claim appears to me to be fully established by the fact that all the fields I passed through in these districts were in full cultivation with winter crops, such as wheat, hemp, sugar-cane, &c., the sowing period of which coincides with, or is earlier than, that of the poppy, and the cultivation of the opium-poppy would, therefore, appear to have been completely eradicated from these districts.\n\nWith regard to the western half of Chieh Yang and the adjoining portions of P'u Ning and Feng Shun, all reports agree that much poppy was planted in the autumn of 1916, and that, owing to the supineness and carelessness of the magistrates, who were simply place-seekers who had bought their appointments from the local revolutionary Government, and also owing to the unruly character of the Hakka inhabitants of the country, a great deal of the poppy was permitted to come to maturity, and the scraping of the capsules had commenced. Early in 1917, however, energetic magistrates were appointed from Canton, who personally conducted the uprooting of the poppy plants throughout their districts so energetically that, by the middle of February, practically not a single plant was left. The amount of opium collected—a part of the first scraping only—is said to have been but a very small percentage of the expected main crop, none of which was harvested, while no seed can have been saved for the next autumn's planting.\n\nThese districts I investigated very thoroughly, visiting all places where missionary reports stated that opium-poppy had been seen growing, but was unable to discover a single plant. The winter crop in these districts is mainly wheat, for which, during the past seven or eight years, opium has been largely substituted; and though wheat was much in evidence, numerous bare, uncultivated plots of land showed where the poppy had been pulled up too late to permit of any other crops being sown during the winter.\n\nThe Chao Hsün Taoyin, Mr. Wang Siao Cho, though unable, on account of his official duties in Swatow, to accompany the party throughout, visited us at Ch'ao Yang, Chieh Yang, Pu Ning, and Ch'ao An district cities, and at Ung Kung, in Jaop'ing district, to satisfy himself that all arrangements for the journey and for our convenience were being satisfactorily carried out. As a suitable chair was not otherwise procurable, the Taoyin placed his own private chair and bearers at my disposal for the whole journey.\n\nA detailed itinerary and a map* showing the route followed are enclosed herewith.\n\nS. WYATT SMITH.\n\nEnclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nItinerary of Journey through Kwangtung.\n\nMarch 19.—By launch and chair to Ch'ao Yang, accompanied by the Taoyin and Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Crops mostly market produce, sweet potatoes, and tobacco.\n\nMarch 20. Taoyin and Foreign Commissioner returned to Swatow. We went by chair to shore of Haimun Bay, crossed bay by launch to the promontory, and thence via Sua Leng to Hap Sun. All fields in full cultivation with sugar-cane, sweet potatoes, and oranges. Country very fat and soil sandy. Paths very good, being composed of lime concrete about 4 feet wide.\n\nMarch 21. Firstly to top of the Hap San hill, where a good view of the surrounding country was obtained, showing all land in full cultivation but no poppy. Thence via Hua Peng to Kui Su along a river valley. Country very fertile and in full cultivation with rice, sugar-cane, and sweet potatoes.\n\nMarch 22—The first part of the journey lay across a very fertile plain, where formerly much opium was grown. Now none can be seen, sugar-cane being the principal crop. Then across a range of hills and through paddy fields to the river bank at Kuan Pou.\n\nMarch 23. In the morning a tour round the neighbouring country, where the principal crops were sugar-cane and paddy. In the afternoon by water to Kityang. Fields on both sides of the river in full cultivation, the principal crops being paddy and sweet potatoes. The Taoyin arrived at Kityang in the evening.\n\nMarch 24.—In the morning and afternoon inspected the land to the north of the river, climbing a high peak from which the surrounding country could be viewed. Crops mostly sugar, sweet potatoes, and paddy. Ten at the Kityang Educational Bureau, where the President of the Chamber of Commerce delivered an address thanking Great Britain for the help she was giving China in eradicating the growth of the opium-poppy.\n\nMarch 25.—Sufficient chairs being, at first, unprocurable, a short march only was possible to Sin Hêng. Crops mostly sugar and sweet potatoes. Country very flat.\n\nMarch 26.—Via Ku Kou to Wu King Fu. The country at first flat, and growing rice, sugar, and sweet potatoes, but, near Wu King Fu, the country became hilly, and wheat was the principal crop.\n\nMarch 27.—Via Ku Tang to Nam San. Hilly country inhabited solely by Hakkas. Crops mainly wheat and hemp, but many fields left fallow pointed to poppy having been pulled up too late for any other crop to be planted during the winter.\n\nMarch 28—Nam San to Ho Po. Country very hilly, except just round Ho Po, which is situated in the middle of a large fertile plain. The smaller hills all terraced. Crops: paddy, wheat, and hemp, but many bare patches as on previous day.\n\nMarch 29.—To Tua Nia Pou across a high mountain pass. Country very mountainous. Crops mostly wheat and hemp, but many fields left fallow.\n\nMarch 30.—To Mi Wu. First through low hills with little fertile land. Then across to fertile plain with huge fields of wheat, though some fallow fields.\n\nMarch 31—To Li Wu by road near river. Country very fertile. Crops mostly wheat; fallow patches here and there.\n\nApril 1—To Wu Chieh by circuitous route over low foot-hills. Mostly paddy country, but some wheat and hemp.\n\nApril 2. To Kee Lun, over rolling hills. Mostly paddy and wheat.\n\nApril 3. To Pu Ning. Much tobacco and orange-trees near city. Taoyin arrived in the afternoon from Swatow, returning next morning.\n\nApril 4.—To Mi Wu, across fertile plain. Crops: tobacco, wheat, and paddy.\n\nApril 5—To Pu Tsz Tsai, via Wu King Fu. Country hilly. Crops wheat and hemp, with some fallow fields, now being ploughed up for paddy.\n\nApril 6—To Tong Hang, over low foot-hills. Rolling country. The principal crop is wheat, though much fallow land, now being ploughed up, shows where poppy has been pulled up.\n\nApril 7.—To Fông Shun. Mountainous country, only fertile in the narrow plain. Crops mainly wheat and paddy.\n\nApril 8—Ta Pan Tien, through valley. Land not very fertile and crops mainly paddy, but much bamboo being planted on the hills.\n\nApril 9.—To Liu Wang, through valley. Hills on all sides. Land only fertile in the valleys. Crop mainly paddy, and bamboo grown on the hill-sides.\n\nApril 10—To Ch'ao An, by water. Only narrow strips of land on each side fertile, where paddy and wheat are the main crop. The hills are mainly planted with bamboo and pine-apple. Near Chao An the valley widens out and the crops become varied, mostly market garden produce. Taoyin and Foreign Affairs Commissioner arrived from Swatow for the night.\n\nApril 11.—To Pin Kee. Crops mainly paddy in valley. Very heavy rain fell, which flooded the paths. The road lay across a very high pass, the land being mainly unfertile.\n\nApril 12.—To Lai Fo Shan. The road lay first over a very high pass, the hilly country being absolutely unfertile. Then a widening plain, the main crops of which were paddy and tobacco. The rain was incessant and very heavy, and all our baggage was drenched through. The streams were swollen and, no bridges being available, soon became almost unfordable, the water being up to the coolies' and soldiers' waists.\n\nApril 13—We remained all day at Lai Fo Shan to dry our baggage and clothes. The surrounding country is hilly with fertile plains, where the principal crops were paddy and tobacco.\n\nApril 14.—To Ung Kung. Country fairly hilly, but with plenty of fertile land in the valleys.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "Gentlemen, \n\n33985 \n\nd. \n\n`PFC REG 1 JUL 18` \n\n**Consulate-General,** \n\nYunnanfu, March 1st, 1918. \n\n160 \n\nI am endeavouring to raise a fund, in the form of annual subscriptions to provide scholarships for Yunnan students at the Hongkong University and I venture to address you in the hope that you will afford us your co-operation and support. \n\nYunnan, as you are aware, is immensely rich in mineral wealth and offers a good opening for British trade both in imports as well as exports, it is coterminous with British territory for hundreds of miles and its future development is intimately connected with important British interests. The French are carrying on a very active propaganda, both political and economic, and American and Japanese firms are also interesting themselves in the province, and apart from the desirability of Hongkong houses paying much more attention to the possibilities of trade here than they have hitherto done, it is of the utmost importance that British influence should predominate and British ideas be disseminated throughout the province. The most effective way of achieving this end is by training Yunnanese students in British educational establishments, and for this purpose the Hongkong University stands ready and close at hand. \n\nThere is a great demand in Yunnan for facilities for learning English, which is taught in numerous Government and private schools throughout the province: in Yunnanfu alone there are hundreds of students learning English, and many of us, British and American, are taking classes to assist the more advanced students with their English. \n\nBut", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478554, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# \n\n17 \n\n-5- \n\nfor 9000 kilos on the same conditions but shipment and drafts were to be in the name of Cesar Dubler, Calle Coello 208. (Cf. `V.E. 2540` and `1170 N`). The writer lamented that no answer had been received to the telegram communicating this order, as Ffister had further orders in view. On the 15th April (the letter continued) telegraphic instructions were given not to ship to Barcelona but to the Societe Suisse de Surveillance Marseilles. Pfister had instructed the S.S.S. to give the Swiss Consulate at Marseilles instructions as to shipment of 10400 kilos gross to the order of Freixas (i.e., Germann & Co.). (`V.E. 1809 N` of 20.5.16.)\n\nThis letter suggests that Germann & Co. Hamburg were not to be the ultimate recipients of the hemp but that they were ordering the goods on behalf of Pfister's firm. But that firm appears to be merely a continuation of the business of Rich. Pottstock for whose benefit the transaction probably accrued.\n\nIn June and August 1916, the following messages were sent to and from Germann and Co., Hamburg:\n\n| No. | Date | From | To | Message |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1258 N | 28.6.16 | Germann, Neuerwall, Hamburg | Everett Heaney, Broadway, New York | \"Elst orders thousand quintales recortes cortadillas twenty eight cents fob same conditions as fourteen thousand bales new nine thousand knotted same proportion hundred seventy five cif newyork draw dubier reply.\" |\n| 43 N | 2.8.16 | Germann, Neuerwall, Hamburg | Atlantic Communication Company | \"xcept three thousand spools two hundred ten dubler cif newyork no letter since february telegraphically reply.\" |\n| 152 S | 5.8.16 | Atlantic Co. New York | Germann Co., Neuerwall, Hamburg | \"Confirm spools remitted end June tobacco rising rapidly awaiting answer representative not arrived embarrassed.\" |\n| 390 S | 5.9.16 | Germann Co. Hamburg, Germany | Chas. Young, New York | \"Wireless received address us hereafter chas young 502 broadway.\" |\n\nThen follow two suspicious messages showing that the American pseudonym was changed and indicating that payments were made through Switzerland and the knotted hemp was to be consigned to Rotterdam if shipment was impossible owing to restrictions on importation elsewhere.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480499, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "# \n224 \n\nreturned to Strassburg, where my mother remarried. As the treatment, accorded to us three boys by our German stepfather was unbearable, my two younger brothers went over to Beaumont in France, and I went to Gymnasium in Strassbourg. I finished that with 19 years, and went then to University in Leipzig. When I was called up to register as soldier in my 20th year, I applied to the American Consul Doederlein in Leipzig, who saw things through. Being considered American, I did not come into any military service. After passing final examination in Leipzig, I went in my 22nd year again to the States, where I worked with the founder of Zion City, Dr. Dowie, for two years. I then returned to Germany for 1 year, preparing and passing examination in Leipzig Theol. College as D.D. After this I followed an invitation of the founder of the China Inland Mission, Reverend Hudson Taylor, to act as his interpreter in Germany, Switzerland and France, and I came out with him to China in 1898. Since that time I have not been to Germany, had no connections whatever with Germany, and was told by the Consul-General of Germany, that he had no connection with me whatever.\n\nMy son Hans has been born here in China, is not registered in any German Consulate, and has never been to Germany. We considered ourselves always as Alsacians, politically as Americans, but never as Germans.\n\nWhen I wanted to explain things to the officer, who boarded the China, I was told to wait till I was in Hongkong.\n\nTherefore, most honoured Sir, it is my humble petition, to let my son and myself go on to Zion City, America, to prepare a home there for my relatives from Beaumont, and my wife, who are now since 20 months again oppressed by the Prussians. If I had not cancer since two years in my left arm, my...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480982, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "content_text": "102\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\ninjustice to their fellow-servants out he as well as to a body of hard working, patient and loyal men and women.\n\nSir, I desire to associate myself with the remarks which have fallen from the senior unofficial member of this Council, more especially as those remarks reflect the results of certain discussions which the unofficial members have held on this budget.\n\nIf I may supplement those remarks, sir, I should like to say that, whilst the Colony and those who have the shaping of its destinies are to be congratulated on the continuous and natural increase of its revenues and on the allocation of so large a proportion of those revenues to development, it is impossible to pass the estimates without some criticism of their faults, the greatest of which are those of omission.\n\nLast year this Council was asked to apply a sum not exceeding $10,605,343 to the Public Service of the year 1919. For the previous year the sum voted was $8,386,910. Yet only eight weeks ago we were asked to authorise the appropriation of a supplementary sum of $5,406,327 to defray the charges of the year 1918, and we now know from your Excellency's speech on the first reading of this Bill that these estimates which are framed to show a balance in favour of revenue of something more than four lakhs, attain that satisfactory appearance only by the studied omission of two factors of expenditure which must be reckoned with during the financial year, the deficit on rice purchases and the emoluments of public servants.\n\nThe Government on the rice question you must understand, sir, that they have exercised that self-restraint so as not to tie the hands of the Administration in dealing with a delicate and difficult situation. But the time for calling on the Government to give an account of its stewardship cannot be much longer deferred. It is to be hoped, sir, that means will be devised to prevent a recurrence of the conditions of the last few months, and that the burden of paying the bill will be imposed as far as possible on the speculative interests that brought the situation about.\n\nPassing from the faults of omission to those of commission in the Estimates, it is to be noted that you propose to spend the sum of $5,231,700, or 35.88 per cent of the total vote, on Public Works and that, of this large sum, no less than $3,073,700 are to be devoted to Public Works Extraordinary. That being so, it would seem impossible to defend or palliate the reticence which has been displayed by the Administration in disregarding the unanimous desire of the unofficial members, expressed last year, that the estimates for public works should be submitted in the first instance to the Public Works Committee of this Council, which should be enlarged for that purpose, as appears to be the case in Singapore and Penang, by the inclusion of all the unofficial members.\n\nOn the question of increased emoluments of public servants, which are represented on page 12 of the estimates as a sum of $105,000, we know from your Excellency's speech and from the footnote on that page that this sum represents merely temporary increases authorised by Colonial Office telegrams in July and September, and that the real sum required for the service of the year will be measurably greater.\n\nAmongst the most outstanding omissions from the draft estimates are any reference to the Praya East reclamation scheme (a matter of infinitely greater importance than the scheme for Ap Lei Chau), and, equally important, the omission of any reference to the Government's proposals in the matter of housing, with regard to which the situation is, I can assure you, acute.\n\nIf the item of $150,000 on page 94, for a hill tramway to Wan Chai Gap and the commencement of a road which will eventually reach Shek O and Cape d'Aguilar are intended as contributions to the housing problem, I will observe that, however much these works may benefit posterity, they do not go one inch towards the solution of the problem of the present situation, which is urgent throughout the Colony and particularly in Kowloon, which the unofficial members have every sympathy.\n\nWhilst additional public works will necessitate increases in the staff of the Department charged with the duty of executing them, it is becoming more and more evident that the time has arrived to relieve that overburdened Department of its duties in connection with the sale of Crown Land and conversion of farm lots into building lots in urban areas. These duties properly appertain to the Land Office, which should have its own staff of surveyors under the Land Officer.\n\nIn this connection, and with special reference to the item of $200,000 which appears at the bottom of page 5 as the amount which will be required under the former head, you have told us how it is to be used; it is fairly generally believed that it cannot be evenly approximately estimated and will run into some millions of dollars.\n\nIf, hitherto, unofficial members have refrained from criticising or catechising the Government on the rice question, you must understand, sir, that they have suffered long and silently and stoically from the fluctuations of exchange, from the high rents of houses and from the general increased cost of living in the Colony.\n\nThey have been fobbed off from time to time with mean shifts such as the so-called duty pay which was obviously only designed to deprive Civil Servants of the share of pension which should have been attached to that duty pay. And not only that, it was intended, or, at any rate, it resulted in forcing them to remain out here and work and so injure their health when they should have been at home recruiting their strength.\n\nWhat I think of the gentleman who invented that duty pay is perhaps better illustrated in this way. When I was a young man in Hong Kong, the American Consul was the celebrated Colonel Moseley, a great cavalry leader. He was a first-class fighting man and very irascible when I knew him and he soon came to loggerheads with a man called Peter Smith, the official crimp of the Consulate. Moseley was a past master in strong language and was soon told he was to be prosecuted for libel by Peter Smith. He turned round, saying, \"Libel Peter Smith, the word is not coined that could libel him.\" That is how I feel about the man who invented duty pay. Contrasted with him, Peter Smith must have been a nobleman.\n\nI know Mr. Messer says they must make the best of it and that it is better than nothing. It was like the little boys taking medicine. They laughed miserably, the little wretches, but they had to swallow it. The men in high places should care for the interests of those under them. They should not try to take advantage of difficulties in this way. If I were not speaking in this Council and in the presence of H.E. the Governor, I should call it a dirty trick.\n\nWe invited everyone who wished to come before us to state his or her case. We examined personally every applicant and, in no instance, did we recommend any expenditure or any increase that we did not think absolutely justified by the facts. It was a matter of bare justice and nothing more.\n\nAfter all, we unofficial members can do very little in these matters. We can bark but we are muzzled by the official majority, and we cannot bite. But I will go on barking as long as I can and I say now that if Lord Milner's advisers see fit to modify our recommendations to any material extent, they will do grave injustice to their fellow-servants as well as to a body of hard working, patient and loyal men and women.\n\nIt is to be hoped, sir, also that by improving the communications with the southern district of the New Territories, particularly Lantau and Lamma, greater areas of Colonial land may be put under cultivation so as to enable the Colony to grow its own consumption of rice and other vegetables and fruits. The cultivated acreage at present is only 42,463. It is high time, sir, that steps were taken to put as much as possible of the remaining 207,778 acres under cultivation on the terrace system, at which the Chinese cultivator is such an adept.\n\nOn the question of salaries, I may point to the somewhat misleading statement which appears in the exchange footnote on page 3. The rate of exchange on sterling salaries is not 4/5ths at 1/9 and 1/5th at 3/-. The last fifth is paid at the Government current rate, with the result that neither the sterling posts nor the compensated dollar posts will receive during the year the sums in dollars stated in the estimates. In fact, they will not receive so much unless the dollar drops in value to 3/7.\n\nPage 103\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n200\n\nNOOSSBAPY", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# though for the time being capital might only be raised in America and Japan yet the central management of the consortium should continue to be conducted by the British group.\n\nPolitical Matters not Discussed.\n\nThe remaining terms of the agenda of a political nature were not discussed. At the request of Mr. Armstrong, the British consul-general, Sir Charles Addis had attended at the consulate and was shown a despatch from Lord Curzon on this subject. Sir Charles Addis was able to assure His Majesty's consul-general that no political matters had been or would be the subject of discussion and further that the question of the inclusion of a Chinese group had already been considered and the suggestion of His Majesty's Government adopted.\n\nVotes of Thanks.\n\nVotes of thanks to the New York Chamber of Commerce, where the conference had been held, and to the chairman for presiding terminated the official proceedings.\n\nVisit of Chinese Delegate.\n\nSubsequently, in consequence of information received by the American group that a delegate of the Chinese Ministry of Finance was on his way to New York to discuss business with the consortium on behalf of the Chinese Government, the representatives of the groups were invited to await his arrival, but at an informal meeting with the delegate, Mr. Hsü Un Yuen, on the 18th October, it appeared that he had no definite instructions or authority to deal officially with the consortium. It is understood, however, that on a subsequent occasion he sounded the American group as to the possibility of an immediate temporary advance of 5,000,000 dollars. This overture was discouraged, but was made to serve a useful purpose in connection with the tentative offer embodied in the American group telegram which forms Appendix 3 above referred to.\n\nGeneral Attitude at Conference.\n\nIn spite of sharp differences of opinion on various points, general harmony marked the proceedings as a whole, and in particular the British group were sensible throughout of the loyal co-operation of their Japanese colleagues.\n\nSummary of Results.\n\nThe results of the conference may be briefly summarised as follows:-\n\n1. The definite inclusion of Japan in a common policy of substituting international co-operation for international competition in China.\n2. The prevention of any expansion or extension of existing Japanese special interests in China outside of Manchuria (see Appendix 4).\n3. The final abandonment of the policy of spheres of influence in China (see supra),\n4. The encouragement of the formation of a Chinese group to assist in the raising of capital in China itself by the issue of silver loans.\n5. The adoption of the principle that agreements pooled but remaining unexecuted at the termination of the consortium should revert to the original concessionaire.\n6. The adoption of the principle that no group which has failed to make any individual contribution to the pooled agreements shall be entitled to share in the individual contributions of the others.\n\nThese results are substantially those which, in accord with the general instructions of His Majesty's Government, it was the object of the British group to achieve, and they believe that the foundations of a new policy in China have been firmly laid in which British commercial interests have been fully safeguarded.\n\nLondon, November 6, 1920.\n\nC. S. A.\n\n## APPENDIX 1.\n\nDepartment of State,\n\nFor information of the British Group:\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWashington, October 11, 1920. IN connection with recent correspondence regarding proposed financial assistance to the Chinese Government you are advised that the Department has received a telegram of the 7th October, 1920, from the American Legation at Peking, stating that on the 4th October the Chinese Minister of Communications ratified an agreement for a Dutch-Belgian Loan for 60,000,000 fr. The text of this agreement was forwarded by pouch on the 20th September.\n\nThe above information was in reply to a despatch to the Legation, dated the 27th May last, calling attention to an item which appeared in the Washington Post of the 18th May with reference to a report that construction was to commence on the Lunghai Railway with funds borrowed from Belgium.\n\nMessrs. J. P. Morgan and Co.,\n\nFor the American Group,\n\nI am, &c.\n\nNORMAN H. DAVIS, Under-Secretary.\n\n23. Wall Street. New York.\n\n## APPENDIX 2.\n\nTelegram of October 27, 1920, from the American Group to their Representative at Peking.\n\nTHE Finance Minister has sent us unofficial message through Hsü Un Yuen that he would appreciate temporary advance of $5,000,000 to tide over present difficulty. We have explained to Hsü and should be glad to have you inform Finance Minister verbally that consortium cannot consider piecemeal business and that any loan to be successfully offered on American market must form part of comprehensive plan for constructive effort in China; otherwise public will not subscribe. During all of the consortium meetings there was evident the greatest wish to assist the Chinese Government along constructive lines looking to the development for China's benefit of her great resources. Nevertheless, in view of limited amount of fund available for China in near future because European markets are largely closed to any outside investments, the Japanese market has been undergoing difficulties and American market is not yet acquainted with Far Eastern issues, consortium considers that loan should be raised only for constructive purposes, particularly railways.\n\nAfter having discussed this matter informally with British, French and Japanese representatives of consortium in New York, we are sending this cable to advise Minister and other group representatives in Peking through you that we have been considering means whereby consortium can be of early practical help, and that, subject always to market conditions, we would be prepared to proceed now with consideration of a loan looking towards the completion Canton-Hankow Railway and, when additional funds become available, for the further development of the Hukuang Railway system.\n\nConditions precedent would be:-\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a.) | Complete recognition by Chinese Government of liability of complete original issue of Hukuang bonds without distinction. On this point consortium adopted the following resolution :— \"It was resolved, without questioning that the course hitherto pursued by the Chinese Government has been followed in good faith, that it is now manifest that the successful flotation of further Chinese loans in foreign markets, which are necessary if the work of the consortium for the benefit of China is to be carried out, imperatively requires a public announcement by the Chinese Government with reference to the German issue of bonds forming part of the Hukuang Loan, to the general effect that after consideration of all the facts and the unprecedented conditions involved, and resolving all doubts in favour of the holders of such bonds, the Chinese Government has determined to recognise the entire issue without distinction.\" |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489221, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## \n\nLi Yao Han, presumed to be acting in Lung Chi Kuang's interest, is still in arms in the Tung Kun district; it is, however, not expected that he will give any trouble, and he will probably be placated with an official position of some kind. There is some idea of Wu Ting Fang being appointed Civil Governor, but in the meantime Wei Pang Ping is to officiate.\n\nEarly in October I received complaints from the Governor of Hong Kong, as well as the general officer commanding the troops, that the colony was not getting the necessary supplies of cattle and firewood from Wuchow owing to the interference with steamers, both British and Chinese, by the Kwang-si and Kwangtung military officials. Representations here having no effect, I despatched His Majesty's vice-consul to the West River with full discretion to make some arrangement by which the river traffic to Hong Kong could be resumed. Mr. Sly's very full and interesting report on his mission, copy of which I enclose,* will inform you of the agreement he reached with the military authorities at Wuchow and Samshui; the system he inaugurated has worked, and still is working, very successfully, and he is, I think, entitled to great credit for a very excellent piece of work.\n\nIt is now fairly certain that H.M.S. \"Robin\" was fired on in error owing to her ensign being invisible on a close day without any breeze; orders have now been given that the ensign is to be stretched out by bamboos, so that there may be no possible mistake in future. The United States gunboat \"Pampanga\" was fired on not long ago, a little below Samshui, but this is probably accounted for by the fact that she was proceeding up river after dark.\n\nI have now the pleasant duty of bringing to your notice valuable services and generous assistance rendered by officials and firms during the past two months.\n\nCommander Cloete of H.M.S. \"Tarantula,\" Senior Naval Officer on the West River, was at Canton during practically the whole of the trouble; he was responsible for the defence of Shameen and arranging for the patrol of the delta and East River. I am much indebted to him for his cordial co-operation and valuable assistance readily accorded at any hour of the day or night. Good service has been rendered by Lieutenant-Commander Johnstone of H.M.S. \"Moth,\" Lieutenant-Commander Hunt of H.M.S. \"Cicala,\" Lieutenant-Commander Manwaring of H.M.S. \"Moorhen,\" Lieutenant-Commander Pearce of H.M.S. \"Robin\" in patrolling the West River and the delta, and in enforcing Mr. Sly's scheme for the protection of shipping between Hong Kong and Wuchow. I trust that the services rendered by these officers may be brought to the notice of the Lords of the Admiralty.\n\nIn connection with the West River patrol the following occurs in a letter addressed to me on the 21st October by Mr. Holworthy, who up to that time had been Commissioner of Customs at Wuchow:--\n\n\"I am writing a few lines to express my great appreciation and thanks for the successful efforts of the British consulate-general at Canton, in combination with the Admiralty, in raising the blockade of Wuchow. I would remark that the action of Mr. Sly, vice-consul, has had the result of greatly enhancing British prestige in the province of Kwang-si; it had sunk very considerably during the last two years.\"\n\nI would mention that as the French consul-general had neither men nor ships at his disposal we took over the defence of the French concession, and as this largely increased our responsibilities we asked the American naval authorities to assist us with a force if required. This the commander of the U.S.S. \"Helena\" readily agreed to do, and on the only occasion on which British bluejackets had to land they were supported by a large force from the \"Helena.\" Our best thanks are due to Commander Schoop of the \"Helena,\" Commander Rhodes of the \"Wilmington\" and to Lieutenant-Commander Woods of the \"Pampanga.\"\n\nThe Indian detachment on Shameen carried out their duties admirably; there was no friction with the Chinese, and, so far as I am aware, not a single case of misconduct among them.\n\nIt is difficult to overestimate the value of the service rendered by Captain Wahl, a British language officer here. He speaks Cantonese fluently, and knew personally every officer of any rank; he was thus enabled to get into close touch with them and ascertain unofficially their views. He placed his time unreservedly at my disposal, and I made very heavy demands on it; he frequently acted as interpreter for me with officials, who spoke little Mandarin, and during the whole time, and especially during the latter negotiations, acted as liaison officer between the two sides. I trust that his services may be brought to the notice of the proper military authorities.\n\nThe Municipal Council supported me loyally in arranging for the defence of the concession, and their police carried out their difficult duties with great tact. Without hesitation I can say that the restrictions, which I found it necessary to impose, were carried out with a minimum of inconvenience to the commercial community.\n\nI am much indebted to the Commissioner of Customs and several British firms for the loan of launches and motor-boats.\n\nM. Segerdal, Commissioner of Customs at Samshui, rendered valuable assistance in helping Mr. Sly on both his visits to the West River, and his advice and co-operation have been especially valuable in drawing up and enforcing the arrangement for the West River traffic. He has also been very good in keeping me informed as to events in his district before there was a gunboat continually stationed. I trust that you will see your way to bringing his services to the notice of the Inspector-General.\n\nNaturally, a great amount of extra work has been thrown on the staff of this Consulate-General, especially as I myself had frequently occasion to be away from the office. Mr. Sly, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Guthrie and Constable Read have carried out their duties to my complete satisfaction and readily responded to the heavy demands I was obliged to make on their spare time.\n\nI am forwarding copies of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong as well as to the General Officer Commanding the Troops and the Commodore at Hong Kong.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**HERBERT GOFFE.**\n\nPage 307", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489345, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "their titles registered at their own consulates, and a further right to a continuation of the municipal system of control and a voice in the expenditure of the rates and taxes to which they contribute.\n\nWith the above instances of violation of treaty rights before one, what guarantee is there that in the event of further resumptions a similar or worse state of affairs will not be brought into existence? The thin end of the wedge has been inserted and you have now to contend with a new spirit which aims at driving the wedge still further in until the position of foreigners enjoying the privileges of extraterritorial rights is so far weakened as to bring the whole fabric to the ground. A new situation has been created by reason of the resumption by the Chinese Government of the privileges granted by treaty to certain foreign Powers, in the process of which encroachments have been made on the treaty rights of others; and the question arises as to what steps should be taken by those whose treaty rights are still intact, or in respect of which such encroachments have been made, if not to preserve the former state, at least to assure to them as many as possible of those privileges they have hitherto enjoyed.\n\nI suggest that the answer to this question is to be found on the following lines. Whilst protesting against the new conditions as evidenced in the areas where control has been already resumed by the Chinese Government or held in trust by them, recognition must be given to the fact that the rendition to China of extraterritorial rights is only a question of time, and the fact that certain of the more influential Powers have ceased or are likely to cease from the exercise of those rights makes it increasingly difficult for those Powers whose rights are still intact to approach the Chinese authorities with the same confidence which they enjoyed before the present state of affairs was brought into existence. This difficulty, which is making itself felt with a definiteness which cannot be ignored, will, as time passes (unless Germany and Russia, for instance, recover their power), and non-treaty Powers become more firmly established in the Chinese polity, make it increasingly difficult for the remaining treaty Powers to maintain their old privileges intact. It is only too probable that the latter will have to make terms with the Chinese Government under much less attractive conditions than exist to-day. Already we find Germans returning to China, and a class of Russians, of Bolshevik tendencies, becoming increasingly numerous and distributing themselves over the country and to whose interest it undoubtedly is to see extraterritoriality and foreign municipal administration abolished and so drag their opponents down to their own level.\n\nIt would appear, therefore, to be of the highest importance to discuss as soon as possible the conditions under which the treaty Powers possessing rights can negotiate with China for a readjustment of certain of those rights in return for the establishment of a state which will have a greater chance of enduring than the present.\n\nAt present the treaty Powers have their extraterritorial rights to bargain with and those Powers with concessions have those concessions. In striving to arrive at what would be the most advantageous form of concession government, it cannot be denied that where foreign Powers come to China with certain proposals, and they are all of one mind, the chances of getting what they want must be greater than if they are at variance.\n\nNon-treaty Powers have nothing to lose and everything to gain by an arrangement with treaty Powers, but those Powers with concessions would apparently lose much by giving up special rights in their particular concessions, Great Britain perhaps more than any other. All, however, must recognise the fact that a delay in the reorganisation of their rights *vis-à-vis* the Chinese Government now, whilst most of those rights are still in force, must react adversely sooner or later.\n\nIt comes to this, therefore, that with the evidences before us of the trend of events during the last few years, and with the knowledge of Chinese feeling and the atmosphere which is gradually being created by official utterances on the subject, unless a move is made forthwith to establish our position on a firm foundation, in a few short years the rights we now possess run a grave risk of being further shorn until the Chinese Government is in a position to demand complete rendition without a compensating quid pro quo.\n\nOn what lines such a reorganisation should proceed is no doubt a matter of diverse opinion, but it is my purpose to offer to this conference certain suggestions which I trust may be considered as not unworthy of consideration.\n\nTreaty Powers with concessions in the different ports might be prepared to surrender them and form international settlements. To these might be added a demand on China to include the late enemy concessions as well as the Russian area, with the consent, if possible, of Russia. The whole settlement thus formed would come under the control of a municipal council elected by popular suffrage and under regulations framed that the foreign vote on the council should form the majority.\n\nAbove this council a Consular Body, presided over by the senior consul, would act as an ultimate court of appeal on municipal difficulties.\n\nMunicipal control is not, however, the whole question. Another point is the settlement of disputes between foreigners and natives. Here is a point on which both parties can meet on more or less common ground. Except in ports such as Shanghai or Hankow where a Mixed Court functions, foreigners in other ports, as in Tien-tsin, for instance, are thrown on the tender mercies of Chinese courts with their long delays and the scantiest justice. Apart from this, you have the anomaly of foreigners residing in one port in a more favourable position for recovering their claims than those residing in another port. More often than not, where there is no Mixed Court, the difficulty in obtaining any sort of satisfaction is so great that unsatisfactory compromises are entered into rather than suffer the disadvantages of invoking the assistance of the court.\n\nThen there is the case of the so-called political offender who seeks and hitherto has had no difficulty in securing sanctuary in the foreign-controlled areas, and thus evades the claims of his own Government. In each international settlement, therefore, should be established an international court with an international code of laws acceptable to all concerned and presided over by an international jurist of tried reputation, and in that court should be administered an even-handed justice between all foreigners and Chinese resident or connected with the foreign concessions, and thus all, both foreigners and Chinese, would be in this respect on an equal footing.\n\nIt is possible that these suggestions might not altogether commend themselves to the Chinese Government, but a step further could be conceded in regard to the status of those so-called political offenders to whom I have already made reference. Provision should be made whereby all such persons who seek sanctuary in foreign-controlled areas should be handed over to their own Government on demand unless they are able to prove that their case would be referred to the judgment of the international court.\n\nWith such a system as I have tried to outline, I believe the rights and privileges of our foreign community might be preserved for many decades. If, however, a policy of drift is followed and some such arrangement is not sought to be made without waste of time, foreigners in China may find themselves so shorn of their rights as to be unable to resist a complete demolition of what remains to them.\n\nIn seconding the resolution, Mr. Fraser, on behalf of Hankow, said:—\n\nSo far the Chinese Government have not taken any really active steps in interfering with the Russian concession except that the archives of the consulate are now in the hands of the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. It is true that M. Beltchenko is no longer consul and that it is at present impossible, for instance, to transfer land owing to doubt as to which is the proper authority, but as regards the actual running of the concession the old municipal council functions as before. As far as I could learn, the Chinese authorities have all through shown no disposition to be unreasonable, and those in authority feel fairly confident that that attitude will be continued. With the object lesson of the ex-German concession before us, we should strive as much as possible to have the present reasonable attitude put into concrete form, and an agreement concluded in black and white with the proper Chinese authorities.\n\nSince the Government took over this concession in March 1917, no change whatsoever has taken place in its administration. In accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the Chinese Government, although they never signed that treaty, entered into possession of the concession with the proviso that it was to be used for international purposes. To give effect to this, a properly constituted municipal council composed of members of the various nationalities with vested interests who are settled in the concession would have to be formed, and it must be presumed that this also was from the beginning what the Chinese Government had in mind. In fact, in a despatch of the 5th October, 1917, from the Waichiaopu to Sir John Jordan, the then doyen of the Diplomatic Corps, the Waichiaopu undertook to elaborate a system of municipal administration of the Special Administrative District, which should make it a model commercial settlement.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Bolts MoixI\n\nfor all intents and purposes the Telefunken system. Information was however vouchsafed to the effect that whereas the \"spark\" system had formerly been employed this was now to be changed to the \"arc\" system. It was anticipated that one result of this conversion would be a smaller degree of interference with other stations, notably that at Hong Kong, which has often complained of the \"jamming\" of its messages by the Hozan installation. Receiving and transmitting is carried on by day as well as by night.\n\nIt is obvious to the untrained eye that the Hozan installation is of great power, and it was stated by the officer in charge that transmission had actually been effected as far as Aden. Great secrecy is observed; no mention of the station appears to be allowed in the local press and every approach is flanked with notice-boards in Japanese and English warning of the penalties imposed on persons taking photographs or making notes of its features. The officer in charge assured us that the installation possessed no special distinctive features as compared with similar plants in Europe and America, but whether this statement was true or false I have no means of ascertaining.\n\n**British Consulate, \nTamsui, April 7th, 1921.**\n\n(Signed) **O. H. Phipps, \nH.B.M. Consul.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Danzig Delegation of the Harbour Board\n\n247\n\nTo the **British Consulate**, Danzig.\n\nDanzig, July 26th, 1921.\n\nThe Danzig Delegation of the Harbour Board is at present examining the question of the establishment in Danzig of a free port, but finds great difficulty in obtaining the data necessary to settle the various questions connected with this scheme; we should therefore be glad to know whether you can supply us with any information on free ports or free port areas. We are particularly interested in the historical development of free ports, especially those that have at any time included the whole town, or at least workmen's dwelling houses within the free area; we believe that **Hongkong** and **Shanghai** are examples of this.\n\n(Signed)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Page 14\n\nIn view of the desire of the Wai-chiao Pu to place Hupei on the list of provinces into which Indian opium shall not be conveyed, the issue of opium is considered. You enclose a translation from a memorandum by the Wai-chiao Pu dated the 3rd July, in which a telegram is quoted from the Tutu and Civil Governor of Hupei, claiming that opium cultivation throughout the province has been extinguished and that the import of native opium has long ago been prohibited.\n\nI fear that it would be useless for me to apply for information to the missionaries of Hupei at the present time, seeing that they are in the middle of their summer vacation and will not return to their several posts for a month or two. Even were they at their posts, they could do little more than give me their impressions based, for the most part, on hearsay of what has taken place in the past.\n\nHad General Li Yuan-hung, instead of telegraphing as he did to the Wai-chiao Pu, applied to me, I should have answered in the sense of the third paragraph of your memorandum to that Department of the 18th July, namely, that the poppy season is now over, and that it is too late to attempt any inspection. I should have added that, under article 4 of the Opium Agreement of 1911, it is for British officials to decide as to the extent of cultivation, and not for \"various bureaux, magistrates, and deputies\"; and that the Hupei Government, although invited by me last December to arrange for such investigation by British officials, never, from first to last, has evinced the least desire for even a joint commission of enquiry.\n\nGeneral Li's reluctance to suggest or accept such a commission is easily comprehended when it is remembered that he was obliged to admit the existence of poppy cultivation in Shih-nan and Yünyang prefectures (see my despatch of the 24th December, 1912). It is true that his Excellency has shown much zeal in stamping out that cultivation; but if he had been convinced, let us say in May last, that his efforts had completely succeeded, it is only reasonable to suppose that he would have adopted the same course as his colleagues of Hunan and Anhui and pressed for investigation by British officials.\n\nThe local Chinese newspapers are not in all respects reliable, but even in their most extravagant statements, there is usually to be found some basis of fact. Now, during the period from the 1st January to the 30th June last, frequent paragraphs have appeared in these journals noting cases where the poppy was being grown, either with the connivance of the local authorities or in defiance of the \"bureaux and deputies.\" I have compiled a list of some of these paragraphs, a copy of which, in English and Chinese, I have now the honour to enclose.\n\nThe conclusion that cannot well be avoided, if any credence at all is to be given to reports so circumstantial, is that the suppression of the cultivation of the poppy, in at any rate the more remote and mountainous portions of Hupei, was by no means so complete last season as to justify His Majesty's Government in declaring this province to be one into which Indian opium is now no longer admissible.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 7\n\n### Translations of Extracts from Hankow Native Press on the Subject of Opium Suppression\n\n| Date | Location | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| January 4 | Hsing Kuo Hsien, Hsin T'ou P'u, and Wang Sha-pen | Poppies in abundance. Magistrate takes no notice. |\n| January 11 | Mien Yang Hsien | Poppy still grown in great quantities: opium dens ignored by magistrate and gentry. |\n| January 24 | Li Ch'uan Hsien, Ch'ang Tan-pa | Poppy still grown. |\n| February 28 | Ma Ch'eng Hsien | Poppy now ripe; magistrate does nothing. |\n| March 3 | Ch'un Hsien, Heng Shen Wan, and Shen pan Tan | Popular resistance to anti-opium measures. |\n| March 26 | An-lu Hsien Pai Chan-shan | Abundance of poppies, many opium dens. Magistrates and police indifferent. |\n| March 30 | Kienshih Hsien (Shihnan Prefecture) | T'ai Wang-pa farmers resist and destroy local Government building; troops sent. |\n| May 6 | Cheki Hsien | Poppy grows all over the hills, soldiers sent to eradicate are bribed by the wealthy: poor farmers are arrested and their poppy destroyed; this leads to a case of arson and murder. |\n| May 11 | Sung Tzu-Hsien | Poppy sown as usual. Magistrate pays no attention. |\n| May 25 | Pating Hsien, Lien Ch'uan Gorge | Armed resistance of farmers, aided by brigands, to work of eradication; military from Tchang summoned. |\n| May 30 | Li Ch'uan Hsien | Several farmers, opium growers, shot down. District Council indicts magistrate for murder. |\n| June 20 | Lai Feng Hsien, Lin Kang | Poppy growers tie up local inspector, who is rescued by military. |\n| June 21 | Lai Feng Hsien, Hui-pei | Armed resistance to eradication. |\n\n## Page 15\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 7\n\n### Acting Consul Handley-Derry to Mr. Alston\n\nIchang, August 7, 1913.\n\nWith reference to your despatch of the 24th ultimo, enclosing copies of correspondence with the Wai-chiao Pu, relative to the placing of Kiangsi and Hupeh on the list of provinces into which Indian opium shall not be conveyed, I have the honour to inform you that there is little to add to what I have already reported.\n\nThere is no doubt that a determined and sustained effort has been made to stamp out the growth of poppy in all easily accessible places, and so far as I can gather from missionaries, railway men, and others, they have seen nothing of the poppy during the spring.\n\nIt is useless to suggest any search at this time of the year, but I would very much like to make a journey round through the prefecture of Shih-nan in the early spring of next year. It is a journey which would take nearly a month, but from what Chinese say, there must be a good deal of growing going on in the more secluded spots.\n\nOf the import of native opium, it is difficult to speak. None comes through the customs, but I have questioned the writer of this consulate very closely, and he says he could buy smuggled opium at any time about 5-6 tiao an ounce. The price stated in my above-mentioned despatch has gone up, owing to the greater stringency caused by the closing of the official opium offices.\n\nWhen I was at Shasi, I questioned several of the merchants there as to how many smokers there were still; they said that there were now no more than 3 or 4 per cent. (Shasi population, 95,000).\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. F. HANDLEY-DERRY.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 7\n\n### Memorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu\n\nIn continuation of his memorandum of the 16th July, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires has the honour to inform the Wai-chiao Pu that he has now received consular reports from Hankow and Ichang.\n\nMr. Alston is not disposed to accept the statement in the Wai-chiao Pu's memorandum of the 3rd July that poppy cultivation had been prohibited and extinguished and that the import of the native drug from other provinces had also been forbidden.\n\nHe regrets, therefore, that he is unable to consent to place Hupeh forthwith on the list of provinces into which Indian opium shall not be conveyed, but is ready, in accordance with article 4 of the 1911 agreement, to arrange for investigations next spring on the lines of the joint inspections carried out in Shantung, Anhui, and Hunan this year.\n\nPeking, August 20, 1913.\n\n## No. 8\n\n### Mr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received November 27.)\n\nPeking, November 12, 1913.\n\nWith reference to my despatch of the 24th July, I have the honour to enclose copies of reports from His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang, together with a copy of a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## 52\n\nto be carried out by Mr. B. G. Tours, C.M.G., His Majesty's consul at Ichang. On the 24th March Mr. Yu Jên-lung sent me an official despatch notifying the receipt of a telegram from the provincial capital announcing that the Puerh Taoyin was to be Chinese delegate for the joint inspection of the places which I had announced my intention of traversing in that circuit.\n\nOn the 27th March, the eve of the date finally fixed for the start, the Taoyin called to learn the route suggested for the first day's trip. Although Lungling, south-east of Tengyueh, had been mentioned first on the rough outline of my projected tour, I had particular reasons for not wishing to travel thither by the normal direct route. Firstly, not two months had elapsed since I had passed over the road, in the reverse direction, on my return from the January Frontier Meeting, without seeing any trace of opium poppy. Moreover, I was anxious to see the present condition of the fields alongside the mountainous track between Nantien and Lungling, which had been described by a reliable source as an almost unbroken succession of opium cultivations. I therefore announced to the Taoyin that I proposed to stop the first night at Nantien. In spite of the frankest betrayal of colossal ignorance of the geography in the immediate vicinity of his own post - he enquired blandly if the main road to Langling (three days' journey south-east of Tengyueh) did not pass through Kuyung, two days to the north-west, and only a day's journey from the frontier of the Myitkyina district - Mr. Yu nevertheless seemed to have some idea that the neighbourhood of Nantien was an undesirable one - from his point of view - for a search of opium crops; and I had to insist that my knowledge of the localities in the Têngch'ung district, where troops were being employed in connection with poppy eradication, was by no means inferior to his own. I was also able to counter his second line of argument, that we could not reach Nantien in one day's journey, and he yielded finally a reluctant acquiescence in my arrangements. His last bolt was not, however, shot, and late at night he sent a lengthy missive advancing the contention that the route between Nantien and Lungling would take us through the zone of military operations against the unredeemed Kachin opium cultivators. To show weakness now would have been impolitic, but it was past midnight before I signed and despatched the letter demolishing all his arguments and holding him to his word given to me some hours previously.\n\nNo reply was vouchsafed, and I therefore despatched my caravans betimes the next morning, the 28th March, and proceeded to the rendezvous with the Taoyin. He had apparently accepted the inevitable: a verbal message was brought to me that, as he was late in starting, he did not propose to descend from his chair; would I, therefore, kindly proceed?\n\nNantien witnessed the last despairing effort of the Tengyueh Taoyin to combat my daily-tour programme. I had already retired to bed when a letter of ominous length arrived; Mr. Yu professed information that the route suggested by me for the morrow had been wantonly obstructed by a formidable barrier of timber. I roused myself and the uncomplaining writer to reply that my information did not tally, and that I frankly disbelieved the report; I promised, however, that if on the morrow or at any other time during our travels we encountered obstructions, I would turn aside and avoid them. Some time after 2 A.M. I was roused once more to blink at the swan-song of the Taoyin's objections. In view of my undertaking, solemnly repeated in extenso, he resigned himself to following my rash lead.\n\nNeedless to say, we encountered no trace of the alleged timber-barrier obstructing the path; but after some two hours' journey the consulate writer and I found a field of opium poppy, measuring roughly some 70 feet by 35 feet, round a bend a few hundred yards off the road. When we arrived, the owner, a woman of A-Ch'ang race, in a paroxysm of weeping, was plucking up the full-blown plants - presumably in obedience to orders from advance emissaries of the Taoyin's party. The Taoyin contented himself with despatching one of his numerous attendant underlings to inspect the field, and on the strength of his report sent me the same evening a letter minimising the incident.\n\nOn the 31st March our route joined the main Lungling road at Manlo, just above the wire rope suspension bridge over the Shweli; for the past three or four weeks this bridge had been closed for the retimbering of the roadway, and the honour of reopening it to traffic was reserved for our cavalcade. At the head of the stiff ascent on the left bank of the Shweli we were met by the Lungling magistrate, formerly senior frontier deputy at Tengyueh, and an old acquaintance; he assured me with cheerful confidence that no matter what part of his district I might visit,\n\n## 53\n\nI should fail to find a single opium poppy. On arrival at Lungling, the consulate writer and I were entertained to a Chinese dinner-party in his yamên.\n\nThe discovery of only one solitary field of opium along the route between Nantien and Lungling must, I think, be taken as evidence of the strenuous efforts which have been made during the past few months to eradicate all traces of the proscribed plant; from one or two more talkative residents encountered en route I obtained admissions of a considerable recrudescence of cultivation during last year, but all agreed as to the thorough measures of suppression carried out since November last. In the Têngch'ung district, for instance, no less than three separate expeditions of eradication had been sent out, under territorial, military, and police officials respectively, and it is only just to place on record that their duties were performed in a very thorough manner.\n\nThe normal order of procedure was for my caravan, headed by the writer and myself, to take the lead, and for the Taoyin's more imposing party to bring up the rear. The 1st April was, however, appropriately celebrated by the failure of the Taoyin's party to keep touch with us at a parting of the ways; this added some 2 miles for them to the long and undulating road to Siangta. Thence to Pingka is normally reckoned as a single - though lengthy stage for caravans; at the Taoyin's request we split into two, halting at the small hamlet of Huchiachai, 7,000 feet high, picturesquely situated in the midst of dense groves of bamboos. At Huchiachai we encountered our first rain, and thereafter we had not a single rainless day until the 19th April. From Pingka to Hankuai, high above the right bank of the Salween, with a magnificent view of the lofty mountains on the other side, was another long day's march.\n\nThe crossing of the Salween was a tedious business for so large a cavalcade; two bamboo rafts were provided, taking only some five mule-loads or ten men on each trip; the method of propulsion across the swift current was by a species of flat umbrella fashioned of stout bamboo; at each end of the craft an oarsman plied one of these clumsy weapons by plunging it into the water and pulling it towards himself with powerful strokes.\n\nThe town of Chênk'ang was reached next day. Formerly there was a Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Chênk'ang, but his downfall was brought about as the result of the Manchu Viceroy, Hsi Liang's, policy for the gradual absorption of the Chinese Shan States into direct Chinese administration; and save for a few picturesque ruins of the Sawbwa's palace, the place is now shorn of any pomp and circumstance it may have once possessed.\n\nTwelve days' travel, although for the most part along comparatively unfrequented routes, had now disclosed but one solitary field of opium poppy, and I therefore decided on a somewhat rash experiment. None of the four maps of Yunnan which I took with me gave any indication of a road from Chênk'ang to Mienning, the next district town on my list, and the recognised routes between these two places are circuitous in the extreme, and pass through either Shunning or Yunchow. I ascertained, however, that a road practicable for chairs existed, and elected to attempt it. Fortunately, by this time the Tengyueh Taoyin had resigned himself to accepting my lead, or he would almost certainly have protested. For five days we followed the roughest of mountain paths, which had in many places to be prepared overnight for our transit by the felling of trees and clearing of jungle. Below Manlai our route crossed the Namting River by a ford which would obviously be impracticable during the heavier rains of midsummer. At the Namting we quitted the Chênk'ang district and entered the jurisdiction of the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Kêngma. During our six days of travel through Chênk'ang territory we had found no opium crops whatever, though I learnt that there had been a small harvest of the earliest sown poppy. The magistrate was said, however, to have been indefatigable in the work of eradication, and I was assured not by himself - that since November of last year he had never been in residence at his post for five consecutive days.\n\nOur next halt, the Shan village of Chepi, was on a route traversed more than twenty years ago by H. R. Davies, the standard authority on the province of Yunnan, and doubtless by other foreigners since; here, for the first time, I abandoned my tent, in favour of a comparatively clean temple.\n\nAt this point we were met by a guard of honour sent out to meet us by the P'uêrh Taoyin, who had arrived at Mienning, our pre-arranged meeting-place, on the 11th April. I owe the efficient commandant a debt of gratitude for his... \n\n[6032]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490028, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# 56\n\nDuring the whole time that I had travelled with the P'uêrh Taoyin, I had met with nothing but courtesy and kindness at his hands, and it was with real regret that I parted with him and resumed the company of the Tengyueh Taoyin.\n\nTwo days' travel, the first of which gave us a magnificent and extensive view of Wu-Liang-Shan, brought us to Nanchien, where our halt coincided with that of an unusually ragged and ruffianly party of Chinese regular troops, en route to suppress a local outbreak of brigandage some two days' journey to the south-west. I received a visit from the district magistrate of Mitu, the limit of whose jurisdiction was only a mile or so away. Two days later, 21st May, the large walled town of Menghua was reached, and here, much against my wish, we stayed a day at the request of the Taoyin, who asserted the receipt of important despatches requiring urgent attention.\n\nThe large district of Mênghua is one of those which took the fullest advantage of the iniquitous permission accorded last year by the Governor of Yunnan for the cultivation of poppy; if rumour speaks true, the early harvest of the past season was considerable, and the local magistrate is asserted to have lined his pockets well by allowing a second crop, on learning that the inspecting officers would not be able to reach his district before May. But for several weeks prior to our arrival, military, police, and civil officials, including himself, had been out in all directions to ensure that no poppy should be left. Certainly none was to be seen along our route, and the predominating crops consisted of healthy-looking wheat.\n\nFrom Menghua, it is but two days' journey to Siakwan, the largest business town in West Yunnan; on the second day, the route crosses a high mountain pass, which from the level of 8,800 feet affords a magnificent view of Tali lake.\n\nAssembled at Siakwan, which was reached on Empire Day, to meet the Taoyin were a host of Chinese officials, including the magistrates of the three districts of Fêngi, Pinch'uan, and Tali. For many years past, Siakwan has been one of the largest distributing centres for opium in all Yunnan, and the Chinese firm in whose premises quarters were found for me bears the reputation of being the wealthiest of all the opium dealers.\n\nFrom Tali, it had been originally suggested that the inspection tour should continue northwards to Likiang. Previous to our departure from Tengyueh, I had invoked the aid of two well-informed foreigners with local knowledge to obtain for me reliable information on the subject of poppy crops in the north-west of the province; and letters from each of them were awaiting me at Siakwan. The first reported planting this season in the north of the Paoshan (Yungchang) district and north-east of Yungpei, but that none remained, save, perhaps, in inaccessible spots; the second affirmed that already by the middle of April, no trace of cultivation remained in the Likiang, Hoch'ing, or Chiench'uan districts, and that in the Yungpei district (north of the Yang-tsze), it was probably grown only by Liso and other tribal folk, over whom the Chinese have practically no control. These reports were confirmed at Tali by the Rev. W. J. Hanna, of the China Inland Mission, and by the representative of the British-American Tobacco Company, both of whom travel extensively, and who assured me that it was several weeks too late for any likelihood of discovering opium crops on a visit to Likiang.\n\nIn view of this consensus of opinion and also of the clear indications of the opening, already overdue, of the rainy season, I decided to abandon the Likiang tour. As, however, I had received many weeks previously definite information that no poppy crops were to be seen anywhere along the main road (via Siakwan, Yungping, and Yungchang) between Tali and Tengyueh, I elected to take the difficult and circuitous route via Têngch'uan, Yünlung, and Kait'ou; this route, incidentally, cuts across the north of the Paoshan (Yungch'ang) district.\n\nLeaving Tali on the 27th May, our first stage was the 16 miles of terrible ancient paved stone road to Shangkuan, at the north-west end of the Tali Lake. Here, we bade farewell to the Tali magistrate and made the acquaintance of the official in charge of the district of Têngchuan. This town was passed the following morning after two hours of easy going, succeeded by a stiff climb to 8,900 feet, and a steep descent to the surprisingly large town of Fengvü (in the Erhyuan district), lying in a huge basin of terraced rice-fields. From Fengvu, the road climbs up to 10,700 feet, and then drops down to 6,100 feet, the level of the Yangpi River, which flows through the town of that name and Siakwan, into the southern end of the Tali Lake. Two days of travel through beautiful pine-forest country and one day of wilder scenery past several large salt-wells brought us to the town of Yünlung.\n\n# 57\n\nThe town of Yünlung lies at the eastern foot of the lofty range flanking the left bank of the Mekong River, and the day's journey to the 60-year-old chain suspension bridge (the Fei-Lung, or Flying Dragon, bridge) over that turgid torrent consisted of a climb from 5,500 feet to 9,700 feet, succeeded by a long and stony descent to 4,600 feet, the elevation of the Mekong at this point. The fierce swiftness of its 80 yards broad current is sufficiently accounted for by the fact that it descends over 1,800 feet between here and the Tapêng ferry, by which we crossed it on the outward journey.\n\nBut a still more formidable day's march lay before us, over the yet higher range on the right bank of the Mekong. The altitudes on this section varied between 5,000 feet at the start (Chiuchou), 11,800 feet at the summit, and 7,000 feet at the halting-place, Ts'aochien. Almost the whole of the climb was over the roughest of stone-boulder paving, and much of it in deep trough-like gullies, while, save at the very summit, the path was overgrown by dense jungle.\n\nAfter two more days of very hilly travel, we came to the crossing of the Salween, here effected in a large, unwieldy-looking boat, the helmsman of which plied a huge stern sweep, some 20 feet long, to negotiate obliquely the passage of the intervening rapids. From the level of the Salween at this point (Mêngku ferry) to the summit of the range, on the right bank, is an ascent of all but 8,000 feet, and the climb over the summit, 10,500 feet, through dense jungle, followed by a steep and terribly rugged drop of close on 4,000 feet, made a day's journey scarcely less arduous than that over the Mekong range.\n\nWe were now back again in the Têngch'ung district, and three more days, the first two of which descended the undulating paddy-plains flanking the Shweli, brought our tour to a close on the 11th June.\n\nThe total period occupied by my tour was seventy-six days, all but seven of which were travelling days; my estimate of the total distance covered is 884 miles, of which I accomplished fully 90 per cent on foot. The route followed traversed some portion at least of eighteen separate districts, and while it cannot, of course, claim to be in any way exhaustive—the start was far too late to admit of such a possibility—it served, in my opinion, to establish the fact that along considerable stretches of country in both the western and southern circuits of Yunnan, the Chinese have undoubtedly made genuine efforts to stamp out, for the time being at any rate, the cultivation of opium. This effort must have cost the province a very large sum of money, estimated by the Tengyueh Taoyin at not less than half a million dollars. As an instance of the heavy expenditure incurred, he assured me that between the months of November and March last, his bill for official telegrams on the subject of opium alone, at 6 cents per word, came to over 2,000 dollars.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an itinerary of the journey, together with a rough sketch map† showing the various places passed en route.\n\nI cannot close this report without adding a few words to express my high appreciation of the very great assistance willingly and cheerfully rendered throughout the tour by the consulate writer, Mr. Chang-Po-tuan, in obtaining accurate information from day to day regarding both the route I desired to follow and the facts in relation to opium cultivation in the adjoining territory.\n\nA. E. EASTES.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Tengyuek,\n\nSir,\n\nJune 26, 1917.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 29.\n\nConsul Tours to Mr. Alston.\n\nIchang, July 20, 1917.\n\nIN accordance with your instructions, I have inspected the eastern portion of the province of Yunnan for opium-poppy cultivation; and I now have the honour to enclose herewith my report thereon.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n* Not printed.\n† Not reproduced.\n\nB. G. TOURS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "68 \n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 29. \n\nActing Consul Brown to Mr. Alston. \n\n**Sir.** \n\nKiukiang, May 8, 1917. I have the honour to forward herewith a report on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in the province of Kiangsi jointly with officials appointed by the Chinese Government in accordance with article 4 of the Opium Agreement of 1911. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nEnclosure 8 in No. 29. \n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN. \n\n## Report on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in the Province of Kiangsi. \n\nI have the honour to report that Messrs. Chien Kuang-hsi and Huang Tao-hsiung, the Chinese delegates appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior, reached Kiukiang on the 16th March, and left with me by rail on the 19th March for Southern Kiangsi via Nanchang and the River Kan. This route was selected as the most practicable in view of the information in the possession of the consulate, which showed that the cultivation of opium poppy had been completely eradicated in the plains and low-lying parts of the province, and that any opium which might exist would be found in remote places in the mountains. On this point Protestant and Catholic missionaries, and the local Chinese press were unanimous. The mountainous regions of Kanchou, Yu Tu, Hsing Kuo, Ningtu, and Ihuang in the south and south-east and the range of hills lying on the borders of Chien Chang, Ani, and Chingan in the north-west were generally regarded as suspicious localities, and I therefore determined to visit these districts in succession. Owing to the difference in the climate between the north and south of the province, the poppy flowering three weeks earlier in the Kanchou region than in the Ani district, we directed our course first to the south. \n\nOur party, augmented by deputies despatched by the provincial administration and escorts of soldiers and police, left Nanchang early on the morning of the 21st March in seven junks, and were towed by steam launches up the Kan River to Wanan. Here on the 28th March we left the river and proceeded by chair to Kan Hsien (formerly Kan Chou), where we arrived on the 30th March. \n\nEnquiries were made by me at the Protestant and Catholic mission stations touched at en route from Nanchang, and I was everywhere informed that the rigorous measures of the magistrates and anti-opium officials had effectually suppressed opium-poppy cultivation in those districts. \n\nThe Protestant and Catholic missionaries at Kan Hsien were equally emphatic on this point, and assured me that it would be waste of time to visit the hills in that region. I accordingly pressed on to Yü Tu, which was reached on the 2nd April, after an exceedingly difficult two days' march. \n\nAs Yu Tu was one of the few districts in which opium poppy was known to have been grown in 1916, I determined to pay particular attention to this region, and after passing the district city, I left the road, climbed the most difficult part of the mountain range, and proceeded inland for a couple of hours' journey, looking with a pair of powerful field-glasses at the pockets of land lying between the hills. In this way I was able to satisfy myself beyond doubt that no opium poppy was under cultivation in an area of many square miles. I eventually regained the main road by a different route, and in the afternoon scaled the mountains to the south-west by a woodcutter's path. Here I spent some four hours in a careful inspection of the surrounding country, and returned convinced that no opium poppy was grown there, as I had been able to see the crops over an area of more than 12 square miles. The climbing in this part of the country was so difficult that only two officers and a few of the soldiers were able to accompany me. We reached the borders of Hsing Kuo district before turning back. I did not enter that district as I had received information at Kan Hsien that opium poppy had been eradicated in that region in 1916 after a severe fight between the troops and the people, in the course of which several persons had been killed and wounded and many houses burned. \n\n87 \n\nOn the 5th April we arrived at Ningtu, where we were forced to rest for one day owing to the exhaustion of our party. Many of the soldiers were brought in in chairs, as they were quite unable to walk. \n\nAt Ningtu, Mr. and Mrs. Seipel, missionaries in charge of the China Inland Mission station in that city, gave me a most cordial welcome, and assured us that the poppy was believed to be extinct in that region. But from another source I learnt the name of one possible opium-poppy growing locality, the Mi Shih Chai mountain, 70 li from Ningtu, on the road to Ihuang. \n\nOn the 8th April we left in a northerly direction for Ihuang, and stopped the night at Lo K'ou. Here eight people were shot in 1915 in an affray between the opium growers and the troops despatched to carry out suppression work. \n\nThe Mi Shih Chai mountain was situated some 10 li from Lo K'ou, and early on the morning of the 9th April we mounted it by a difficult path, and spent five hours in a careful exploration of the countryside. This region is said to be infested with tigers, so extra precautions were taken for the safety of our party. No poppy could be discovered anywhere, and the remains of the previous year's crops seen in the fields showed that none had been grown last year. We arrived at Ihuang on the 11th April, and from there proceeded to Lin Ch'uan (formerly Fu Chou), where we embarked on board junks and were towed by steam launch to Tu Chia Pu, in the Chien Ch'ang district. As the country was flooded we were able to make use of certain shallow channels and short cuts, whereby we saved between one and two days' time. \n\nIn the range of mountains lying on the borders of the three districts of Yung Hsiu (formerly Chien Ch'ang), Ani, and Ching An, the names of Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'in had been given as possible opium-poppy growing localities, and we therefore proceeded from Tu Chia Pu, via Yung Hsiu district city to Pai Ch'a, which appeared to be the most convenient centre for visiting the places in question. Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'in were found to be in close proximity, and on the 17th April I made a careful inspection and traversed the district without finding any trace of poppy, although the paths we took led us well into the heart of the hills away from the main roads. From here we crossed the mountains to Ani and entered the more level country leading to Feng Hsin and Kao An (formerly Jui-chou Fu). We arrived at Kao An on the 20th April. My intention had been to proceed to Shang-kao and the Wan Tsai district, but in view of the advanced date and the favourable information received from the missionaries at Kao An it appeared waste of time to investigate further in this direction, and I accordingly returned to Kiukiang via Nanchang. I spent a day and a half in the provincial capital as the guest of the civil Governor, and returned to my post at Kiukiang on the 24th April. \n\n## Method of Inspection. \n\nIn those districts where the names of possible opium-poppy growing localities had been furnished, the Chinese delegates and I visited and inspected each of the places in question. In those regions where it was commonly believed that poppy might possibly be found \"somewhere in the hills,\" I picked out the highest and most inaccessible part of the mountain range, ascended it by any track that could be found, and proceeded inland or along the crest for some miles until I had satisfied myself by the aid of powerful field-glasses that no poppy was under cultivation. In order to obtain fuller information as to the crops, official anti-opium proclamations, people, and general conditions, I walked for the greater part of the overland journey, and was thereby enabled to see much that might otherwise have escaped my notice. \n\n## Relations with Chinese Officials. \n\nFrom first to last I have met with the utmost courtesy and consideration at the hands of the Military and Civil Governors and their subordinates. The district magistrates and the gentry of every district visited have extended the heartiest hospitality to me as the representative of His Majesty's Legation. Every facility was given me of visiting and inspecting any part of the country, and my wishes were met in every respect. \n\nThe successful organisation of our party reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Wang Nien-tsu, the Kiukiang magistrate, and the officers under his control. It is entirely... \n\n[6032] \n\nPage 87 \nPage 68", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# Provincial Anti-Opium Campaign\n\nThe Kiangsi Provincial Administration has dealt with the question of opium-poppy suppression in a thorough manner, and of the complete success of their measures there is no doubt. From 1914 to 1916 poppy cultivators in the country districts have been harried by officials, gentry, and soldiers. Oppressed, fined, imprisoned, their land confiscated, their homesteads burned, and their lives imperilled, opium growers have come to the conclusion that the Government was in earnest, and that the cultivation of the poppy was too costly and dangerous an undertaking. The complete eradication of opium poppy would appear to have been accomplished in 1916, when the few remaining patches under cultivation in the province were torn up.\n\nOpium-poppy suppression was first effectively taken in hand in 1914, when proclamations in popular language were posted throughout the length and breadth of the province, and the district magistrates, police, gentry, and militia were strictly enjoined to make an end of all poppy in their neighbourhood. The ancient Chinese rule of mutual responsibility has been rigidly enforced in many districts, and many magistrates were degraded or removed from their posts for lack of vigilance in opium suppression. Inspectors were despatched twice yearly by the Provincial Administration, as also by the attendants of each circuit, in addition to constant inspection by special officers. The magistrates of each district were required by the Civil Governor to make personal inspection everywhere in the territory under their rule and report to Nanchang. In the country places, the local gentry were organised into anti-opium societies, each member of which was responsible for the surveillance of a given section of the countryside. Particular attention was paid to the hilly regions, where inspectors sent by the provincial and local authorities have visited and revisited the most remote localities to ensure against any recrudescence of the poppy evil.\n\nProclamations threatening poppy growers with death, and offering rewards ranging from 50 to 500 dollars for information as to opium-growing localities, have been affixed everywhere in the country towns and villages. I have noted such proclamations in every district on our overland route. Before the poppy was finally exterminated, persons defying the regulations were, in some instances, shot; in others, their houses were burned and their land confiscated. In the Yu Tu district, such heavy fines were inflicted by the former magistrates that the offenders were forced to sell their children.\n\nPrior to our visit of inspection, the farmers and country people in many districts tore up all vegetables and plants that might be regarded as remotely resembling the opium poppy. This in itself is a sign that little opium poppy has ever been cultivated in these districts, for no one who has ever seen an opium poppy would be likely to mistake it for a plant of a different nature.\n\n## Effect of Inspection on Gentry and Country People\n\nIn each district visited, the towns and villages were decorated with flags and banners bearing the words \"Welcome to the British Commissioner,\" the people lined the streets in holiday attire, and committees of welcome and entertainment met us long before we entered the streets. The educated classes appeared to regard my visit as a recognition by us that China was at last one with Great Britain and the Western Powers. Everywhere we experienced the greatest courtesy and kindness at the hands of the magistrates and gentry. The latter, indeed, vied with one another in their attentions and hospitality, and I was frequently touched by the pains they had taken to provide for my comfort. To them, my visit has undoubtedly given much satisfaction, but I fear that the passage of our party was not so welcome to the farmers and country people. Apart from the exactions to which they were subjected by the officials under the plea of entertainment expenses—I know of at least one district, to which I did not proceed, where the people were penalised to the extent of 10,000 dollars on this account—the services required of the countrymen were most irksome. The provision of chair-bearers and porters for a party of over 200 persons is no easy matter in a remote agricultural district. To make up the requisite number of bearers, the officials were at times forced to impress the local farmers, labourers, and artisans. It is true that the magistrates offered and paid a fair day's wage to each carrier, but the people were anxious to be at their work in the fields at this season, and they gave their services only under compulsion.\n\nThat the country-folk should have suffered by reason of our visit is regrettable, but on the other hand, it will, I think, be productive of good, for it is certain—and my opinion on this point is confirmed by missionaries in the interior—that our visit will prove a distinct deterrent on all future poppy cultivation in these districts. Rather than be subjected to the discomfort of a second joint investigation, the country people will take such steps as will effectually debar their neighbours from growing opium poppy hereafter. With regard to myself, the villagers and farmers, when convinced that I was not on press-gang duty, welcomed me gladly in their homes both on the roads and among the hills.\n\n## People\n\nThe people in the south and south-east of Kiangsi from Kan Hsien to Ningtu appear to be mainly of Hakka origin. Both men and women are vigorous, well-grown specimens of humanity. Bound feet are practically unknown among the country women, who work side by side with the men in the fields, with the result that there is little poverty and beggars are almost non-existent. In disposition, they are fierce and turbulent and of cleanly habits, in marked contrast to the Chinese proper. The latter are met once more at Ningtu. The revolution of 1911 appears to have had little effect upon the inhabitants in the interior of this province. The queue is universally worn, and the ancient terms and forms of respect are in general employment. Here, an official is still regarded as a superior being, and no one dare \"come betwixt the wind and his nobility.\"\n\n## Clan Rule and Faction Fights\n\nThe country in the south and south-east of the province is in the hands of powerful clans who quarrel with one another on the most trivial pretexts. In some localities, pitched battles occur regularly once or twice a year, but as all the combatants are armed with primitive guns, spears, and swords, the casualties on each side are usually limited. Repression by the magistrate is impossible; the score or so of indifferently armed police of whom he disposes are hopelessly outnumbered, and he can only let matters take their course and content himself with the rôle of peacemaker after the affray.\n\nBetween Kan Hsien and Yu Tu, our party was conveyed 5 miles off the proper road and nearly drowned when crossing a ferry by reason of the insistence of one of these clans. We had, it appeared, passed the previous night in the ancestral home of the opposite faction, and nothing would satisfy the other clan but that I should lunch with them at their principal seat, and the official was forced to comply with their wishes.\n\nAt Lai Ts'un, a market town between Yü Tu and Ningtu, a faction fight between two branches of the local clan was in progress at the time we entered the district, but, on receiving information from our party by advance messenger that we were not a punitive expedition, the combatants, said to number from 1,000 to 2,000 on each side, very kindly agreed to a cessation of hostilities until we had passed through the district. This, they were good enough to state, was solely out of consideration for my safety and comfort; but I incline to the belief that the modern rifles of our escort also turned the scale in favour of peace. The temporary truce did not, however, extend to the members on the wrong side of the clan. These were liable to lose their heads at sight if they ventured into the Lai Ts'un territory, and for this reason, we found it a difficult matter to persuade porters to carry for us. Both sides welcomed me in a most hospitable manner.\n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Kiukiang,\n\nMay 4, 1917.\n\nPage 68\nPage 69", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490035, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Enclosure in No. 29\n### Vice-Consul Smith to Mr. Alston\n\nSwatow, April 18, 1917.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that, in accordance with your instructions, I left Swatow on the 19th ultimo, in company with the Chinese delegates, on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in Kwantung, and returned to Swatow yesterday. All preparations for the journey had been completed several days beforehand in Swatow, but no start was possible until after the arrival of the delegates from Canton. The time at our disposal for the journey was only about a month, as the poppy harvest is practically over by the middle of April.\n\nThe Chinese officials who accompanied me were: Mr. Lam Hi Chow, the chief secretary to the Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, who was the representative of the Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, the principal Chinese delegate; Mr. Kum Yung Fan, the secretary to, and delegate of the Opium Suppression Bureau, Canton; and two interpreters, Mr. Hoang Tsou Yn, English and French interpreter to the Civil Governor, Canton; and Mr. Lau Wai Chi, English interpreter to the Chao Hsün Taoyin.\n\nThe principal districts in which the opium poppy was previously grown are Chieh Yang, Pu Ning, Feng Shun, Ch'ao Yang, Ch'ao An and Jao Ping, the two latter in a much less degree, but nowhere have I been able to discover a single plant. The information received at this consulate from Chinese and missionary sources was to the effect that very little, if any, poppy had been planted in the autumn of 1916 in the Ch'ao Yang, Chao An and Jao Ping districts, in the east of Chieh Yang, the east and south of P'u Ning, and the north and east of Feng Shun, and that what little had been planted had been uprooted as soon as the shoots appeared, none being left growing at the end of the year. This claim appears to me to be fully established by the fact that all the fields I passed through in these districts were in full cultivation with winter crops, such as wheat, hemp, sugar-cane, &c., the sowing period of which coincides with, or is earlier than, that of the poppy, and the cultivation of the opium poppy would, therefore, appear to have been completely eradicated from these districts.\n\nWith regard to the western half of Chieh Yang and the adjoining portions of P'u Ning and Feng Shun, all reports agree that much poppy was planted in the autumn of 1916, and that, owing to the supineness and carelessness of the magistrates, who were simply place-seekers who had bought their appointments from the local revolutionary Government, and also owing to the unruly character of the Hakka inhabitants of the country, a great deal of the poppy was permitted to come to maturity, and the scraping of the capsules had commenced. Early in 1917, however, energetic magistrates were appointed from Canton, who personally conducted the uprooting of the poppy plants throughout their districts so energetically that, by the middle of February, practically not a single plant was left. The amount of opium collected as part of the first scraping only is said to have been but a very small percentage of the expected main crop, none of which was harvested, while no seed can have been saved for the next autumn's planting.\n\nThese districts I investigated very thoroughly, visiting all places where missionary reports stated that opium poppy had been seen growing, but was unable to discover a single plant. The winter crop in these districts is mainly wheat, for which, during the past seven or eight years, opium has been largely substituted; and though wheat was much in evidence, numerous bare, uncultivated plots of land showed where the poppy had been pulled up too late to permit of any other crops being sown during the winter.\n\nThe Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, Mr. Wang Siao Cho, though unable, on account of his official duties in Swatow, to accompany the party throughout, visited us at Ch'ao Yang, Chieh Yang, P'u Ning and Ch'ao An district cities, and at Ung Kung, in Jaoping district, to satisfy himself that all arrangements for the journey and for our convenience were being satisfactorily carried out. As a suitable chair was not otherwise procurable, the Taoyin placed his own private chair and bearers at my disposal for the whole journey.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nS. WYATT SMITH.\n\n## Enclosure 10 in No. 29\n### Acting-Consul Toller to Mr. Alston\n\nNingpo, June 4, 1917.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that on the 23rd April I met, at Nanking, Mr. Yu Shou-chang, the deputy appointed by the Governor of Kiangsu for the inspection of the province, and on the following day Messrs. Chau Hang-nien and Mou Chia-yo, the delegates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior respectively. The Governor of Chekiang had also appointed a deputy, Mr. Chang Chin, the headmaster of the Middle School here, who accompanied me from Ningpo. This appointment was probably made because the Governors of Kiangsu and of Chekiang are brothers, and with the idea that Mr. Chang, whom I already knew well, might serve as a mediator between the Kiangsu delegate and myself in case of any difficulty or dispute, but I am glad to say no occasion for his services in this connection ever arose.\n\nFrom Mr. Giles I learned that the former opium-producing regions were in the country north of the Yang-tsze, generally known as Kiangpei, and that the only territory in which there was any likelihood of poppy being found was the Hsü-Hai circuit. Mr. Ottewill had kindly furnished me with a copy of his despatch of the 25th March last, and this together with the information which he gave me in Chinkiang from reports made in 1915, also indicated the northern part of the province as the area to be investigated. I accordingly arranged with the Chinese deputies to start our tour from Hsüchowfu, for which place we left by train on the 26th April, arriving at midnight the same day.\n\nThe following day was spent in making preparations for the lengthy chair-journey, and on the 28th April we proceeded to Hsiao Hsien. In this district we also made a circuit through the hilly country to the south of the town towards the Anhui border, striking across the ranges of hills that radiate from the town so as to examine the sheltered valleys, which were the most likely haunts of the poppy. I also climbed the highest point in the group, in order to get a wide view over the surrounding country.\n\nFrom Hsiao Hsien we went to Tang-shan Hsien, covering the distance of 150 li in a day, keeping near the Honan border—indeed, for a short distance our road took us through Honan territory. Tang-shan was, in the past, one of the most noted opium-producing areas in Kiangsu; it lies on the borders of three provinces, so appeared to be a district where, perhaps, the repressive measures might be less effective than elsewhere. We accordingly made an excursion into the surrounding country, visiting the fortified village of Hsieh Chi, on the border of Kiangsu, Shantung and Honan, and returning by a different route.\n\nOur journey was then continued to Feng Hsien and Pei Hsien. Between Feng Hsien and P'ei Hsien we did not take the direct road, but made a detour to the south in order to get from Hun Shan, one of the very rare hills in this locality, an opportunity of surveying a wide area. From Pei Hsien back to Hsüchowfu we also made a detour to the east with the object of examining the country bordering on the Wei-shan Lake.\n\nThe second stage of our journey took us from Hsüchowfu to Haichow, through Pi Hsien. From Pi Hsien to Haichow we travelled by a small road close to the Shantung border for the greater part of the way. This led us through the districts of Sutsien and Shuyang, including the country north-east of Yao-wan, where it was reported, in 1915, that a good deal of poppy had been planted. We did not visit the towns of Sutsien and Shuyang, as I was anxious to keep away from the main roads as far as possible.\n\nThe information received from the members of the American Presbyterian Mission at Haichow, who travel a great deal through the country on motor-bicycles, indicated that Kan-yü, to the north of Haichow, was not formerly an opium-producing district, and that there was little object in visiting that magistracy. As Kan-yu is, so to speak, a cul-de-sac, and a journey through the territory would have taken three or four days, after which we should have had to return to Haichow, I thought it better not to waste time on a visit there while there were important areas further south still to be inspected, so from Haichow we proceeded to Kuan-yin, which has been a hsien only since the revolution, and was formerly known as Pan-p'u. Here it was reported, in 1915, that a very large quantity of poppy had been planted, we therefore, in addition to traversing the district from north to south, ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 612, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# Mawson's despatch No. 44\n## General H. B. M. Consulate-General, Canton\n### Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Canton\n\nCanton, 31st August 1921.\n\nI have the honour to remind you that, at the interview which took place between us on the 22nd instant, I warned you that, unless within a given time, sufficient to allow of communication by telegraph with General Ch'en Chiung-ming at Wanning, the British subject Ch'en Tao-heng, arbitrarily arrested and detained in prison by the Military Authorities, were surrendered to me, for trial if necessary, I should reluctantly be compelled to give full publicity to the high-handed proceedings of the Kwangtung Government in this matter.\n\nIt was not until yesterday that I received by post from Suchow a telegram from the General stating that the deciding factor in Ch'en Tao-heng's case was whether or not he had divested himself of his Chinese nationality. His Excellency added that he had given you instructions to investigate this point and to act in a spirit of fairness. Immediately on receipt of his telegram, I sent Mr. Vice-Consul Wilton to enquire what action you proposed to take in the matter. You replied that General Teng had not as yet received instructions from the Commander-in-Chief, and that in any case the question was one for the Supreme Court to determine. The release of the prisoner thus postponed indefinitely, and in the circumstances, no alternative is now left to me but to write to the Governor of Hong Kong asking him to make public the facts of the case and the inferences to be drawn therefrom.\n\nThey may be rehearsed briefly, and, for the sake of clearness, set forth (a) National Status, (b) Arrest, (c) Criminal ...\n\n## (a) National Status\n\nCommissioner for Foreign Affairs, Canton.\n\nCh'en ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922.]\n\nAs regards the third point—mis-direction in reply to questions by the Jury—I see no mis-direction whatever in it. My direction to the Jury was that if they accepted the evidence of Capt. Morgan as a whole they would be entitled to convict beyond reasonable doubt. They now ask me if they have any right to convict, irrespective of the fact of whether as he fired the shot fired\n\nThe Attorney-General: At this stage, I should like to refer to Capt. Morgan's evidence. He did not actually see the prisoner fire the shot. He saw there; he saw the smoke.\n\na man\n\nMr. Jenkin: A wisp of smoke, and he never saw him throw away the revolver and there is evidence, contra, that somebody else fired the shot. Running away is not murder.\n\nThe Chief Justice (continuing his reply to Mr. Jenkin): You have your remedy in a petition to His Majesty's Privy Council. I see no reason whatever for reserving the point.\n\nMr. Jenkin: May I apply to your Lordship—I do not quite know what is the usual practice—that the judgment on this man be suspended while I make this application?\n\nThe Chief Justice: I see no reason whatever to suspend it. I shall certainly pass sentence upon him.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Certainly my Lord; if that is your Lordship's opinion I shall sit down.\n\nSENTENCE PASSED.\n\nThe prisoner was then asked, in the usual form, if he had anything to say why judgment should not be passed upon him. He said he had, but he wanted to make his statement from the witness-box.\n\n\"No, you cannot do that,\" said the Judge. \"What you wish to say you must say from there.\"\n\nThe prisoner then began to repeat the evidence he had already given. After some sentences of this, the Judge said, \"You have told us all this before. Unless you have anything to say in addition, it is a waste of time.\"\n\nPrisoner: In that case I have nothing else to say, but I must ask you to act according to reason.\n\nThe Judge: Is that all?\n\nPrisoner: I do not know how to say anything else. I must leave the matter in your hands, to have mercy on me and to do things according to reason.\n\nThe Judge then donned the black cap and addressed the Prisoner:\n\nLeung Wo.—The Jury, after a very patient hearing and after a very able defence on your behalf, have found you guilty of murder, and in that verdict I entirely concur. It was a dastardly crime and you took away the life of a man, for some motive best known to you, and, so far as we know, a man who had done you no harm. For the offence of murder there is only one punishment known to the law and it is my duty to pass sentence upon you. Sentence of death was then pronounced.\n\nI committed no offence: I must say something more before I die.\"\n\nThe Chief Justice ordered him to be removed: he resisted violently and in spite of his small stature it took three or four burly policemen to remove him to the cells below the dock.\n\nThe Court rose at a few minutes past six o'clock.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT —\n\nTHE AMOY BOYCOTT WITHDRAWN.\n\nDISPUTE THAT DRAGGED ON FOR FOUR MONTHS.\n\nThe N.-C. Daily News of March 4th says:-\n\nWe are pleased to announce that a settlement has been arrived at in the Amoy dispute. Yesterday a telegram was received by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire stating that the boycott had been completely withdrawn. The terms of settlement have not yet been received. It would seem that much credit for the settlement is due to Mr. Eastes, who was recently appointed to Amoy as Consul in the place of Mr. Tours, who has gone on home leave, and judging from the tone of a telegram despatched to Shanghai by the People's Association of Amoy, his manner of approaching the subject placated the more restless of the Chinese and smoothed the way for a settlement. Of course, Mr. Eastes had the advantage of coming absolutely new to the crisis, untrammelled by all that had gone before.\n\nThe dispute has dragged on since about the middle of November last, when objection was taken to the construction of a pier connecting the B. & S. hulk and the Bund. As we have already shown, Messrs. Butterfield & Swire were perfectly within their rights in undertaking this work, and it was not until some time afterwards that the discovery was made that the real cause of the agitation was the existence of walls constructed for purposes of defence on the boundary of the British concession and the Chinese city. Thus Messrs. Butterfield & Swire were made the victims of a dispute which really concerned only the British Consulate officials and the Chinese.\n\n \n It is now understood that an agreement to remove the offending walls paved the way to a compromise, and it is to be hoped that the matter has been settled once and for all. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's shipments of goods to Amoy will be resumed at the end of the present week.\n \n\nESTIMATE OF JAPAN'S WEALTH.\n\nPREPARED FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS.\n\nThe Asahi says that the Japanese Government, in compliance with a request from the Board of Councillors of the League of Nations at Geneva, appointed a special Commission to fix the standard valuation of the wealth of Japan and make a report to the League.\n\nSome time ago Sir Eric Drummond, of the Board of Councillors of the League, through Viscount Ishii, Japanese Ambassador in Paris, asked the Tokyo Government to present statistics showing the wealth of Japan, and accordingly the Government instructed the Census Bureau to make investigations.\n\n \n 35\n 225\n \n\nInvestigations made by the Census Bureau last year show that the wealth of Japan is valued at Y.86,077,070,000. This shows an increase of Y.54,034,140,000 as compared with the year valuation in 1913, before the outbreak of the war. Of the total cost above, the land in Japan Proper, Formosa and other over-seas territories is valued at Y.33,085,660,000, the mines at Y.6,412,820,000 and buildings at Y.8,560,060,000, while the lake, rivers, gulfs, etc., are valued at Y.4,598,980,000. Gold and silver coins and bullion are put at Y.2,359,910,000. The property of the Court Imperial is estimated at Y.345,942,900, of which the land is valued at Y.307,510,100, buildings at Y.14,440,300, furniture, etc., at Y.7,220,100, and live-stock at Y.298,800.\n\nJAPAN'S ATTITUDE IN CHINA.\n\nGENERAL HIGASHI'S STATEMENT.\n\nSTRICT NEUTRALITY IN CHINESE POLITICS.\n\nPEKING, March 9th.\n\nThe following statement by General Higashi, Japanese Military Attaché in Peking:-\n\nSince Marshal Tuan Chih-jui removed his residence to Tientsin some time ago there have been in circulation all sorts of rumours regarding his motive and activities, and some of the Chinese papers from time to time circulated reports purporting to show that some Japanese Militarists were behind the alleged activities of Marshal Tuan and his followers. In some instances my name was mentioned as being in the alleged Japanese support of one party or the other.\n\nIt was reported by a Shanghai paper that Colonel Honjo, of Mukden, came to Peking some time ago to act as intermediary between Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, Marshal Chang Tso-lin and Mr. Liang Shih-yi and myself to secure Japanese military assistance in an alliance to be formed against General Wu Pei-fu and his party. It was also reported in another paper that I was involved in a scheme to transport Chinese arms kept in Shanghai to Hunan with a view to giving assistance to General Chao Hung-ti.\n\n\"These are only a few examples of the astounding stories that have been circulated by some interested party to alienate Japan from one party or the other. The fallacy of these reports is fully proved by the fact that Colonel Honjo has never been in Peking during the last seven or eight years, and that I have never been asked by anybody to assist in the alleged transport of arms to Hunan. Apparently there is a force at work all the time, which is trying to benefit itself by circulating these baseless reports.\n\n\"It is hardly necessary to point out that the attitude of the Japanese Government on the political situation in China is one of strict neutrality. When the reports of Marshal Tuan Chih-jui's removal to Tientsin reached Tokio the Japanese Government semi-officially announced its intention to remain strictly neutral on the situation.\n\n\"Friendly neutrality towards the political situation in China is not only the declared attitude of the Japanese Government but is also the unanimous demand of public opinion in Japan, and it is needless to repeat here that the Japanese Military Representatives in China are acting strictly in accordance with instructions from their Home Government. In fact, it is impossible for them to act otherwise.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493455, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "content_text": "300-VII\n\nior Mixed Court Magistrate to senior Consul.\n\nlosure No. 4.\n\nlation.\n\nSir,\n\n362\n\nShanghai, May 4th, 1922.\n\nI have the honour to state that many cases have recently occurred in which Chinese citizens against whom warrants and summons have been issued by the Mixed Court have managed to evade our jurisdiction by producing certificates of registration issued by foreign consulates.\n\nThese certificates are of two kinds, certificates of nationality and certificates of protection. Out of courtesy for the foreign consulates concerned this Court has hitherto not insisted on its strict rights, and has refused to take jurisdiction over Chinese who have produced such certificates.\n\nNow, however, the practice of granting such certificates has grown to such proportions, and is liable to such abuse by unscrupulous persons, that the administration of justice is becoming a mockery, and it has seemed right to us (Magistrates) with the approval of the British and American Assessors to assert the jurisdiction of this Court in cases of persons, who, though registered at a foreign consulate, are by the Chinese law recognised as Chinese citizens.\n\nThe Chinese law on the subject is that the child of Chinese parents is a Chinese even though born in a foreign country and that a person of Chinese nationality who wishes to become a foreigner must first obtain the permission of the Ministry of Interior.\n\nCases, it is true, may arise in which a person has a dual nationality, but in such cases the rule of international law...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "She be offered by HRG Pran to General A puvate\n\nFROM 1923 You Stubbs FOR CIRCULATION :- Mr. Beckett Mr. Perm U.S. of S. Part US. of S. Secretary of State, Previous Paper\n\nHONG KONG DATE 8 January, 1923 SUBJECT Complaint by relating to a Chinese RECO 171 со 7476 Rr 12 Hti 23 against Consulate for bhili Yas. for come in copies of earres. Affairs shd. We asked Suggests that its for Foreign to have the Condes crof the moling brought the notice of the Govt of Panama.\n\nMINUTES Dife Capr unth ifl Coffent all end to to LF. Chen Chung-Ming Hong Kong founces, 3. 7om be wil be glad i know whether sust propane is Conschuathe Прифате mochfication of that put forward Mr. Lord Curzon adheres 15 Asst. U.S. of S. ધ the crew cxpressed in Your letter to 7 1384/927/10 of the 224 of theil 4932. by the O AG in his hel 1 | the 9th of August on to Cuyon's ofservations foot to this past which Corres Lov you latta of the 28th of August Ni F 2631/927/10. 88. 5A6139887 5/43079 ') FO.\n\nSubsequent Paper to 19483 24 ((867578) WL. 2012/36 Gp. 140 80,000 11-22 W & 8 Ltd.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n\"The first evel. Tas affrão indication of the wethods of the Col seculevat - the which is aft to be sunduly peremptory) Corres 7 atreon At once IS\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the formatting and readability, here is the revised version in HTML as requested:\n\nShe be offered by HRG Pran to General A puvate\n\nFROM 1923 You Stubbs FOR CIRCULATION :- Mr. Beckett Mr. Perm U.S. of S. Part US. of S. Secretary of State, Previous Paper\n\nHONG KONG DATE 8 January, 1923 SUBJECT Complaint by relating to a Chinese RECO171 со 7476 Rr12Hti23 against Consulate for bhili Yas. for come in copies of earres. Affairs shd. We asked Suggests that its for Foreign to have the Condes crof the moling brought the notice of the Govt of Panama.\n\nMINUTES Dife Capr unth ifl Coffent all end to to LF. Chen Chung-Ming Hong Kong founces, 3. 7om be wil be glad i know whether sust propane is Conschuathe Прифате mochfication of that put forward Mr. Lord Curzon adheres 15 Asst. U.S. of S. the crew cxpressed in Your letter to 71384/927/10 of the 224 of theil 4932. by the O AG in his hel 1 | the 9th of August on to Cuyon's ofservations foot to this past which Corres Lov you latta of the 28th of August Ni F2631/927/10. 88. 5A6139887 5/43079 ') FO.\n\nSubsequent Paper to 19483 24 ((867578) WL. 2012/36 Gp. 140 80,000 11-22 W & 8 Ltd.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n\"The first evel. Tas affrão indication of the wethods of the Col seculevat - the which is aft to be sunduly peremptory) Corres 7 atreon At once IS\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "181\n\nEN THO SI OCATURMOD\n\n182\n\n1\n\n.SSRI „re dumtoaⱭ 1481\n\nTie\n\nG.\n\nto jg lever adi #gbeIwoníos of zoned adź ovad 1 zedjegod „Jasinad,haS edit ne bajab,SSRI\\TOD, all wettal twoy sham inialgnoo sit yalawadeo ajasawab susu Ye seiquo film naco beà x■ nadi „guali wedƐ gaol,næet ast prol,asunek yð yenom to impreme aladmo's gakiovenez Ye možžmojai edi dile val erd dikw paibrosos,ef in) es besseng at mbyo at bing yodið Jació arobargmoŭ est to godo ze [aeu odi do kưw uk Joastweo a to nariad , bez 19ta nam stalpendo vidi to grizsed atmaaknob Jadi vettai moy ni stažu us? ym zohri hoonel ed of bespeang od Jaum Labu o'ersohanquo✪ don adð am most jsouper of eval wog „exofenad? „Jadi hua přirodi na o3 (00,008,13) erallob berhued #922 kaangodt sao to gelaunter To mmm bien met doad gużyny to arogwg sdi voi,soil30 wor „o??iiniaiq odd of panom [est I tadi,zattal zwey et yiqer ni vyao od ged I Jon xo? em sumre lliw voy Jawzi yitseazas I jadi has przon from -;unonser galwollot edd no bound „Jaouger woy diłw gaięłymoo\n\n.I mi zejjam midi to y‡iiidianoqnoz edi enzmosƐ\n\nIvano rebau gnotyroll ni muazať zot stalumnacð edi yɗ bezada »nisiq adt batquoda oda yraqmóð ymiqqim edit (onllon obrunabƐ, TM surit of anonim sdt hus avill að eldat buta vsegneraaq as #YE £3 -in Lalgre of usaq I na maki. nicht drei alid to? #wamerasq benoitusm-evoda aɗT\n\n· Tedpoed ditči adó no belian do ków \",uzak oʻyyfall\" add no troq of noijmina to soldærglas welt żadź egbelwomi IIaft “om heter „ISRI\n\nI LO\n\n..0.15am vel busið .no ..\n\n„VzajemeƐ Isimoloj\n\n.3010A\n\nH.\n\nChile was forbidden, because the newspapers of Hongkong had already published an official notice to that effect, which fact was also known by the Steamship Company \"Toyo Kisen Kaisha,\" according to the attached copy of document No.1.\n\nThe Consulate for Chile, which office was open during the whole month of December 1921, had no interference or intervention in the trip of the complaining Chinese passengers, and did not stamp its \"visa\" in their passports taking into consideration the prohibition of Immigration issued by the Chilean Government: - (Document No.2.)\n\nI wish to impress the fact that, having that prohibition been made widely known, actually existing in Hongkong a Chilean Consular Office and a Chilean Consul in functions, the Consul for Panama, Mr. Edmundo Moline, not only stamped his \"visa\" to the passports of the plaintiffs, thus stepping on the privilege of the Consulate for Chile and acting against the Chilean Government instructions, but also viséed fifty-five (55) passports of Chinese bound to Chile in transit through Panama, Chinese who were making a trip, as they made it, in Japanese steamers starting from Hongkong and ending their journey at the Chilean port of Valparaiso.\n\nThis unfair conduct of the Panamanian Consul, Mr. Edmundo Molino, was the subject of two protests formulated by me to the Consulate for Panama in Hongkong, and of a communication to my own Government on the matter.\n\nFurthermore, the passengers who had been travelling under such irregular conditions and in contravention of the Supreme Chilean and Panamanian Authorities were expelled both from Panama and Chile under the right of sovereignty.\n\nNow I must put forward the fact that the responsibility of the \"Toyo Kisen Kaisha\" is an undeniable one, and I base this opinion on the Company failing to make good the cost of the return passages to Hongkong that they had to pay under the order of expulsion of said travellers.\n\nThe post of Compradore of the Chilean Consulate formerly...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495855, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 8.\n\nH. B. M. Consulate-General,\n\nCanton, December 13th, 1923.\n\nDear Sir Edward,\n\nI would wish to make the following observations on Dr. Sun's letter to you of December 4th, of which you were good enough to send me a copy.\n\n1. I will comment on the points in his letter seriatim. It is untrue to say that the Diplomatic Body ignored his request. He was informed that they were considering it, but before deciding wished to await the return of Sir F. Aglen - early in November. The question was then immediately taken up again.\n\n2. It is doubtful whether, with diminished trade and falling exchange, there now be many millions of Customs surplus, as was the case in 1919.\n\n3. Of Kuangtung's Customhouses, he does not at present control Swatow, Hoihow, nor Pakhoi, and he certainly controls no others in the South.\n\n4. He accuses Peking of using surplus revenue to fight him. Should he obtain any surplus revenue, he will use it to fight them or to pay his recently enlisted hordes. This was openly admitted to me by O. C. Wu. All projects of internal reform have now gone by the board.\n\n5. By approved banks, he presumably means native banks, and with the Gabelle precedent before us, we all know what that implies: all cash will be withdrawn the moment it is paid in, or loans floated with such revenues as security.\n\n6. An assertion of sovereignty on the part of one who controls a single city and its suburbs, but cannot collect taxes rightly his due elsewhere in territory, nominally under his rule, is ridiculous.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir Edward Stubbs, K.C.M.G.\n\n\"Hongkong.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500085, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "# CAFE WISEMAN \n**BREAD, CAKES, etc.** \nFull Stocks \nBut \n**CASH PAYMENT** \nThe \n**Hongkong Telegraph.** \n**FOUNDED 1881** \nNo. 21 845 \n\n三拜禮 \n**SHAMEEN SENSATION.** \n**DEMONSTRATORS FIRE ON CONCESSION.** \n**FRENCH MERCHANT KILLED BRITISH SUBJECTS WOUNDED.** \n\nCanton, June 23. Thousands of students, workmen, citizens and soldiers paraded along the Bund around the European quarter and opened fire opposite the Victoria Hotel in the British Concession.\n\nBritish and French marines replied with machine-guns, the firing lasting twenty minutes.\n\nThe French merchant, Mr. Pasquier, and the Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Edwards, were killed, whilst one British marine and two civilians were wounded.\n\nAll the evidence indicates that the Chinese fired first.-Reuter.\n\nLater. \nMr. Edwardes was wounded, and not killed, as previously reported.-Reuter.\n\n**British Naval Version.** The Naval authorities here state that while they are not prepared to say that Reuter's wire is grossly exaggerated, their own information is of a modified nature. The report of the occurrence received by them is to the effect that whilst a more or less peaceful demonstration taking place in Canton yesterday was in progress, it appears that the crews of the boats all went ashore at Canton yesterday to attend a meeting of the Seamen's Union and that after the meeting was over they returned to their boats. But this was not until long after the scheduled departure time. Some of the boats have come into Hongkong this morning.\n\n## WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1925.\n### MORE TROUBLE IN THE NORTH.\n\nJAPANESE CONULS STONED.\n\nCANTON AUTHORITIES WARNED.\n\nSINGLE COPY $1 OKNTS $36 PER ANNUM\n\n### TO KOWLOON RESIDENTS \n**AN APPEAL** \nThe Kowloon Residents' Association appeals to its members and to residents generally to join in the Special Constabulary, if they are not engaged upon essential service elsewhere.\n\nAll available are requested to attend at Magistracy, Central Police Station, between the hours 4 and 5 p.m. on 24th and 25th inst. for the purpose of being sworn in.\n\nD. GOODWIN. \nHon Secretary.\n\n### TENNIS. \n**TURNBULL EXTENDS BOROTRA.** \nLondon, June 23rd. \nThe second round of the Men's Open Championship opened to-day in dull weather. Playing at the Oval, Surrey defeated Somerset by an innings and 111 runs.\n\nJagat Mohanlal \n**HOME CRICKET.** \n**ANOTHER DOUBLE CENTURY FOR HENDREN.** \nChintang, June 23. Prior to the Outbreak.\n\nLondon, June 23. Strikers here have stoned the Japanese Consul, who has demanded an apology, otherwise strong despatch addressed by Sir...\n\nShameen's Defences.\n\nFrom another source, we learn that before the fighting broke out, Crowds stoned the Japanese Consul General in Canton, to...\n\nCharking, June 23. \nJames Jamieson, Drift Jaguar me Three Straight sets taking seven wickets for 43 before the fighting broke out, H.M.S. Moth Was anchored opposite the A P. C godown, Reuter\n\nPlaying at Hull, Yorkshire defeated Leicester by an innings and 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.\n\nShanghai, June 23. \nCanton, has this afternoon been forwarded us via `XCR(85)72`.\n\nle Rees eliminated the British the Vigilante was stationed just Wuchow says the Japanese Customs Commissioner has been killed and two Japanese injured.-Reuter.\n\nPlaying at Kettering, \nGlamorgan defeated Northants made \nNorthants made 135 (Mercer taking six wickets for 47 runs) and 457, Wright contributing 83, Bellamy 84 and Murdin 90, not out. Glamorgan made 107, Thomas taking four wickets for 24 runs, Reuter.\n\nMelbourne, June 23. \nto the length of drawing lots \nFrenchman could claim a victory \nand made 400, \nscor \nOn enquiry at the City Hall this morning, our representative was informed that a very large number of Europeans have registered for service and that in every case the desire is expressed to commence Canton duty at once.\n\n## A BIG DEMONSTRATION.\n\n(Our Own Correspondent.)\n\nPakhoi, June 20th. \nA big demonstration took place here to-day in the town and on the General Li Fook-iam's troops being transported to the \nAbout three special constables were co-operating consequently are refusing to sell. Regarding European food distribution is apparently working smoothly through the various bodies, who have volunteered for this work.\n\nMr. C. McI. Messer (Transport Controller) assured our representative that there are ample transport facilities available and plenty of public hire services are now idle at Canton, has been taken over by the authorities and that she is now on her way down to Hongkong with over 600 refugees on board. She has been manned by naval ratings and more `Sai On` was delayed in Canton owing to a strikers' meeting of the Seamen's Union, but the men were permitted at about 2:30 p.m. to bring the night boats to Hongkong.\n\nsuddenly opened fire on the Shameen, killing one French citizen and wounding a number of British subjects British seamen watching the procession, and seeing the students firing with H.M. Consulate General and the British Senior Naval Officer in the line of fire, discharged their rifles. They were immediately ordered to cease fire and did so, and the firing from Canton stopped.\n\nThe Naval authorities state that, as far as their information indicates, there is no reason to suggest that the British seamen fired at the students.\n\nThere are five British gunboats in Canton at present time, the Tarantula, Moth, Moorhen, Robin, and Cicala.\n\n### THE CONTROL SCHEMES.\n**GOOD RESPONSE BY AMERICANS.** \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)`\n\n### NEWS FROM PAKHOI.\n\nOn enquiry at the City Hall this morning, our representative was informed that a very large number of Europeans have registered for service...\n\n## REFUGEES FROM SHAMEEN.\n\nThe compradore of Messrs. W. A. Hannibal and Co., who was in Canton yesterday and returned on the `Sai On` was interviewed by a Telegraph representative this morning, and he stated that the students and workmen were in a procession which had half-way passed the British bridge when they opened fire on the Shameen with rifles. The Shameen authorities replied and the Chinese suffered severe loss, the number killed and wounded being estimated by some as between thirty and forty, others placing the figure as high as a hundred.\n\nA man who was being rowed in a sampan to the `Sai On` was almost alongside the vessel when he dropped dead in the bottom of the sampan.\n\nIn addition to British and American gunboats, there are now at Canton a Japanese destroyer, and three French gunboats, namely the Altair, the Argus and the Vigilante.\n\n### 600 ARRIVING THIS AFTERNOON.\n\nCHINESE LABOUR.\n**DR. S. W. TSO APPOINTED CONTROLLER.** \nThe report is true.\n\n### STRIKE ITEMS.\n\nThe crew of an oil tanker at the Standard Oil installation at Laichikok yesterday left the ship is incorrect. The crew was composed entirely of white men, and the tanker sailed this morning.\n\n### RUBBER PRICES.\nTHE RESTRICTION POLICY.\n\nLondon, June 28. \nIn the House of Commons, Ormsby Gore stated that it was not proposed to make any drastic or sudden alteration in what had been the settled policy for the last two or three years. The aim of the restriction policy was to prevent the destruction of a large number of rubber states which would have gone out of cultivation altogether and in order to increase the long production in the Colony has so far been quite satisfactory.\n\n### EXPORTING MONEY.\n**A COOLIE CAUTIONED.** \nA Chinese tea shop coolie appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on a charge of unlawfully exporting $50 in notes and $14.60 in Canton silver currency.\n\nDefendant said he was on his way to Canton from Swatow when he was not aware of the new order.\n\nHis Worship said that he thought this was a case where the law should be enforced and he would forfeit all the defendant's money with the exception of $5 defendant caution the coolie.\n\n### FRENCH POLITICS.\n\nParis, June 23. \nThe Chamber has passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 510 votes to 30.-Reuter.\n\n## MR. EDWARDES NOT KILLED.\n**ONLY SLIGHTLY WOUNDED** \nLater enquiries show that Mr. Edwardes was not killed but was wounded and is coming down to Hongkong for treatment.\n\nthe Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District is to the effect that there was a peaceful procession in progress when a small party opened fire from the Bund on to the Shameen. It is true that one French resident was killed, but Mr. Edwardes was only slightly wounded and has sent a telegram to Hongkong to-day stating that he is coming down here.\n\nThere is an absence of definite information regarding the number or identity of the other people wounded and also nothing authentic regarding the effect of the return fire upon the Chinese.\n\nThe Hongkong Government had heard, this morning, of a rumour stating that about 800 students had been killed but this is, obviously, untrue. The news of the affair was first received here by the Naval authorities late last evening.\n\n### ANOTHER VERSION.\n**MANY CHINESE CASUALTIES REPORTED.** \nThe compradore of Messrs. W. N. Hannibal and Co., who was in Canton yesterday and returned on the `Sai On`, stated that the students and workmen were in a procession which had half-way passed the British bridge when they opened fire on the Shameen with rifles. The Shameen authorities replied and the Chinese suffered severe loss, the number killed and wounded being estimated by some as between thirty and forty, others placing the figure as high as a hundred.\n\n### JAPANESE CHANNEL SWIMMER.\nMr. Setsu Nichimura, the Japanese champion swimmer, is training at Dover for an English Channel swim early in August.-Reuter.\n\n### FRENCH POLITICS.\n\nParis, June 23. \nThe wedding is shortly to take place of Mr. U. Simpson Grant Semison, missionary, of St. George's House, and Miss Helen Gaynan Hoffman, also a missionary, staying at the same address.\n\nI would in this connection call your attention to the representations are being made to the Chief of Police and would ask you to be good enough to support them in so far as you may be able to do so.--I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, \n(Sd.) J. W. Jamieson, Consul General.\n\nThe Chamber has passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 510 votes to 30.-Reuter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500970, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. Queen's Buildings. \n\nRid Your Home of Flies with \n\nFLYOSAN \n\nUPER-INSECTICIDE, \n\nAlso ills Roaches, Mosquitoes, Mathe, Azta, Redbugs, Lice. Fleas and other Insects. NON-POISONOUS \n\nto every other form of Animal Life. \n\nFOR SALE AT \n\nTHE CHINA DISPENSARY. \n\n32, Quang's Road t \n\nEast of Central Market, \n\nPhone 594 \n\nAre you still doing the \n\nwashing? \n\nIf so why not \n\nhave a gas wash boiler \n\nIt saves time \n\nmoney and \n\nclothes. \n\nFor sale or \n\nhire from \n\nHONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., \n\n9 \n\nLTD. \n\nreside for the purpose of all steamship communication be carrying on the moreaufile tween Canton and Hongkong, bath pursuits, without molesta- direct and via Maeso, and also for loo or restraint, ut Chaton, the boycet in Cantor and other Amoy. Foochuw, Ningpc aud porta la South China as well a Article V of the Treaty of British subjecte ships and goods. Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502378, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "1900\n\nSpeaks good English.\n\n65\n\nThe text that follows appears to be a jumbled collection of nonsensical words and characters, likely due to OCR errors or encoding issues.\n\n... [rest of the garbled text is omitted as it does not make sense]\n\n9. The Consulate, the Oil Monopoly and the Russian Naval and Military Staff are all interconnected and are controlled by Borodin.\n\n10. The head clerk and book-keeper of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Shkodsinsky, a Polish subject.\n\n11. These Soviet agents actively connected with the Chinese Strikers Headquarters are named: - Torovsky, Cherepanoff and Schneider. Am getting further information about them.\n\n12. Four Russian Bolsheviks live directly opposite Shameen at Sna Kee. Vorovsky is one of them, the names of the others are not known.\n\n13. A large meeting of Chinese Strikers and Government needs was held at Whampoa two weeks ago. General Cheung Kai Shek gave a speech and at the end of the speech he drew a picture of a goose on a board and said to the crowd in Chinese \"Borodin took too much upon himself, this is his goose, we must cook his goose or his goose will cook us.\"\n\n14. The Russian Volunteer Fleet S.S. Georgy under the command of Captain G.I. Alexandreff is now at Champos. Alexandroff is a former Officer of the Imperial Russian Navy as is also the 2nd mate, Amarieff.\n\n15. Russian steamers call regularly at Canton. Their cargos mostly consist of kerosene and Russian produce, but some bring arms and ammunition for the use of the Chinese Forces. All the ships are unloaded at a small island before Whampoa.\n\n16. The Chinese parties in Canton are always quarrelling amongst themselves. The Chinese are completely controlled by the Russians.\n\nI returned to Hongkong 15.1.26.\n\n16.1.26.\n\nSigned. M. Koretsky.\n\nCaptain Koratsky,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502469, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "156\n\nCounsTM đ38 no betouttant metnað of tow I\n\nmimot bam Dedoustncià nosså‡ a soltispam sham I. „ösül\n\nÈ dimmang da,nätvodniel muinauli žo\n\nös nada gaut ên sợLI 80 maonom skali\n\ncuid do eta eta arošačva & yatim£out\n\ntoufi owd aad #nominez esantal shal\n\nLAZEDOČ Na Mwont al pisikilli ment mit de\n\n11,2 twoda bega sintia) må\n\n1 of indoeços si tud yukle, ak\n\nDo yĺzeurtot onda nitak\n\ns bega 11oniumă vii ni Laval ssơmi ada ba\n\nmi novi\n\nAyvali Istanqol nażanull odd Yo gim\n\nauf at derið læ¤ zand) Irmmỹ of matriả giaİLĹŽK\n\nmatemuft adó við Lammeð a písomno) nivaledi\n\n-10% buwan at arid dawol až atsivež sát to bood\n\nHi and Ila 2010 Tobanamik as sa șiisodium ableá ná\n\nCHOO JVİTOE Kɗd to myama onla al od ¡llaknow\n\n5 0 Jinaatregel Lamlostet) tioqounil 119 mind\n\nto coalq sát ynddad ut ad ;(misalli shadi ‚ILL.I.J\n\nI sort bed bedoeqe si ɑdw,Luenso0 secrso),acuormi\n\nYlJToda\n\n8. The interpreter of the above mentioned oil Monopoly is W. Schwartzberg, a German. Speaks many languages. Speaks good English.\n\n9. The Consulate, the Oil Monopoly and the Russian Naval and Military Staff are all interconnected and are controlled by Borodin.\n\n10. The head clerk and book-keeper of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Shkodzinsky, a Polish subject.\n\n11. Three Soviet Agents actively connected with the Chinese Strikers Headquarters are named:- Verovaky, Cherepanoff and Schneider. Am getting further information about them.\n\n12. Four Russian Bolsheviks live directly opposite Shameen at She Kee. Tarovsky is one of them, the names of the others are not known.\n\n13. A large meeting of Chinese Strikers and Government heads was held at Whampoa two weeks ago. General Cheung Kai Shek gave a speech and at the end of the speech he drew a picture of a goose on a board and said to the crowd in Chinese \"Borodin took too much upon himself, this is his goose, we must cook his goose or his goose will cook us.\n\n14. The Russian Volunteer Fleet S.S. Georgy under the command of Captain G. I. Alexandroff is now at Whampoa, Alexandroff is a former Officer of the Imperial Russian Navy as is also the 2nd mate, Asarieff.\n\n15. Russian steamers call regularly at Canton. Their cargoes mostly consist of kerosene and Russian produce, but some bring arms and ammunition for the use of the Chinese Forces. All the ships are unloaded at a small island before Whampoa.\n\n16. The Chinese parties in Canton are always quarrelling amongst themselves. The Chinese are completely controlled by the Russians.\n\n(Sd.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503162, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "China Mail\n\nNo. 2998.\n\nOVERLAND\n\nESTABLISHED\n\n1946.\n\nWEEKLY EDITION OF THE DAILY \"CHINA MAIL.\"\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1926.\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nBAULD. On July 12, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bauld, a son.\n\nEDWARDS. On June 30, 1926, at Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. B. Edwards, a daughter.\n\nFOSTER-HALL.--On July 10, at Tientsin, Margaret, only child of Mr. and Mrs. B. Foster Hall, Chinese Maritime Customs, Shanghai, aged two years and two months.\n\nBUCH. On July 11, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Burch, a daughter.\n\nGARDINER. On July 9, at the Foochow Sanatorium, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gardiner, a daughter.\n\nHOWELL. On July 7, at St. Marie's Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Howell, a son.\n\nMOLLAND. On July 7, at Peking, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwin Molland, a daughter.\n\nSOLOMON. On July 11, at the New Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Solomon, Hon. Representative, a daughter.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nWEBB-PALMER.- On July 12, at H.B.M. Consulate-General, Shanghai, Violet, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Palmer, of London and Shanghai, to Joseph Victor, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Webb, of Liverpool.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDARBISHIRE.- On July 4, 1926, at Home, Frances, widow of Charles William Darbishire.\n\nPage 236\n\nMail. Postage, $13.00 per annum.\n\nPrice, $1.00 per Annum, including postage.\n\n30 Cents per Single Copy.\n\n丙次歲年伍拾國民華中\n\nNow it would appear that the cordial relations that were supposed to exist between Sir Reginald E. Stubbs and the Press of the Colony were one-sided.\n\nHistory, if the chronicler is faithful, will reveal that for the local Press Sir Reginald expressed at a certain valedictory gathering the utmost contempt. Literally he bit the hand that fed him. Not only did he refrain from uttering one solitary acknowledgment of the help given to him as Governor by the Press, but, with malice aforethought, he went out of his way to belittle it, and demean it.\n\nAs murder will out, so will sayings of Cinciis in high places.\n\nDuring the regime of Sir Reginald E. Stubbs as Governor it appeared on the surface, at least, that he was favoured with what is known as a \"good Press,\" which, whilst retaining their innate rights and independence, the local newspapers, in times of stress and trial, were ever ready to do all that the Press can do to strengthen the Government's hands and to give the right lead to the whole community.\n\nA CHEAP SNEER.\n\n'ress was made at a private and public function, knowing full well that his speech would not be reported in the usual way and that, therefore, the much-maligned Press would be deprived of any opportunity to defend itself against such an uncalled-for and unprovoked attack.\n\nMoreover, he took previous good care that his denunciation, couched in no elegant terms, of the local newspapers was made at a private and public function.\n\nWe have not the slightest hesitation in saying that, go where he will and meet with the same difficult times as he did here, Sir Reginald Stubbs will never meet with a Press so uniformly helpful and tolerant as even that of this Colony.\n\nSir Reginald Stubbs is no longer with us, and his base betrayal of the Press can disturb our equanimity not one iota.\n\nWhatever success he may have achieved in his capacity as Governor here, he owed in very large part to the Press.\n\nThat is said in no spirit of \"crowning\" or vainglory.\n\nHe was throughout his tenure of office treated with the dignity and respect due to His Majesty the King's representative.\n\nSir Reginald Stubbs had a better Press than he deserved.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nLeading Articles:\n\nA Cheap Sneer 1-2\n\n24 Hours Notice 2\n\nTelepathy 2\n\nStorm Havoc 2-3\n\nStorm Precautions 3\n\nBoxer Indemnity Funds 3\n\nObituary 3\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\n\"One Man Show!\"\n\nYoung Prodigy 4\n\nComing Here 5\n\nThe Boycott 5\n\nAbout Swee 6\n\nJunk Piracy 7\n\nFrance's Day 7\n\nCadet Ships Visit 8\n\nCapt. Macintosh 8\n\nKidnapping Case 9\n\nDeep-Sea Fishing 9\n\nFatal Wounding 9\n\nForged Notes 10\n\nCalifornia Collegians 10\n\nThief Caught 10\n\nStolen Umbrella? 10\n\nMore Red Tape? 10\n\nMotor Accidents 10\n\nScouts' Work 11\n\nChina Provident 11\n\nAlleged Assault 12\n\nTunnel Boys 12\n\nRobbery Attempt 12\n\nNarrow Escapes 12\n\nTraffic Changes 12\n\nPirates Aground 12\n\nColony & Finances 13\n\nLocal Imports 13\n\nWinding Up 14\n\nMental Cures 14\n\nNaval Visitors 15\n\nPolice Report 15\n\nCanton News 16-17\n\nBoy Thieves 17\n\nHopes Gone? 18\n\nHong Kong Doubles Tennis 18\n\nLocal Baseball 19\n\nChallenge Cup 19\n\nTennis League 20\n\nPalace Hotel Billiards 20\n\nA Bye-Election 20\n\nAnother Shooting 21\n\nPassenger List 21\n\nDomestic Occurrences 22-26\n\nRecord Hongkong Deluge 27\n\n37 Years Ago 27\n\nFound Shot 27\n\nStorm Items 27\n\nPeak Water 28\n\nPeakite's Letter 28\n\nFood Thieves 28\n\nA Medicine Deal 29\n\nOur Man Seized 29\n\nCafe Dispute 30\n\nMixed Court 30\n\nColony's Health 30\n\nC.S. P. Held Up 30\n\nDown South 30\n\nValley Assault 31\n\nChinese Y.M.C.A. 31\n\nH.K. Angling Club 31\n\nMotor Routes 31\n\nAppeal Court 31\n\nTraffic Again 31\n\nTwo Motor Accidents 31\n\nYarn Market 32\n\nTyphoon News 32\n\nHongkong Hotel 32\n\nCafe Incident 32\n\nFire at Sea 32\n\nDaylight Robbery 32\n\n24 Hours 32\n\nThought Feeling 32\n\nPupils' Work 32\n\nPage 236\n\n號弍廿月柒年陸拾式百玖干壹英", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "352\n\nMr. CHEN: That is a point for consideration on which we must consult our Government.\n\nMR. BRENAN: What is meant by consulting your Government? Does it involve an adjournment of the Conference for some considerable time?\n\nMR. CHEN: Hardly that, but I must consult my Government.\n\nMR. BRENAN: The Chinese delegation are supposed to have plenipotentiary powers.\n\nMR. CHEN then again went through the \"Aide Memoire\" in detail. Mr. SOONG remarking at its conclusion that it was rough, being the product of several minds working together.\n\nMR. CHEN promised to supply a copy in the final form.\n\nThe Chinese delegation then left the hall. After five minutes consultation they returned and again MR. CHEN went through the details of the \"Aide Memoire\". He emphasised that the financial burden of the settlement should be equally shared.\n\nMR. BRENAN: We must adhere to the conviction that the first shot of the Shamee incident was fired from the Shamee side. We wish to make it clear that we have no fear of an Enquiry and that while we do not reject entirely the suggestion of an Enquiry we consider that it would be a very difficult matter to hold one for the reasons already stated.\n\nWe cannot accept the demands for compensation and the moment has arrived for us to say that we also have claims filed in the Consulate to put forward on account of the Shamee incident and of the boycott. I am, however, prepared to leave the question of compensation on both sides for later discussion.\n\nAs concerns the question of guarantees against a repetition of such an incident, we don't want a repetition and will do all that we possibly can to avoid it. But it is for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "28\n\nSome appeared to be shoving the Chinese onlookers away, the remainder turned round, faced Shameen and were seen loading their rifles. Then the front rank opened fire straight across the creek at Shameen, the others joined in and instantaneously the firing became intense all the way down as far as I could see. They then scattered in all directions and took up positions behind any available cover in the houses and continued the attack,\n\n\"In a very short space of time I found bullets splashing round the consul-general and myself, so we retreated hurriedly.\n\n\"The Lewis gun detachment stationed overhead (No. 1) observed the firing at us, and bullets were also coming over their sandbag protection. They opened fire on the soldiers; the other Lewis gun detachments on their right were also being peppered and also opened fire.\n\n\"Directly I got up into No. 1 gun's position I ordered 'cease firing' with the intention of avoiding all unnecessary fighting. In the nature of things it was a short time before the further guns and the specials could be stopped. Very little firing really took place on our part.\n\n11\n\nThe soldiers continued firing, sniping from various points of vantage. When they became too accurate and persistent a few rounds of Lewis gun or rifle were dealt out to them, but soon afterwards I ordered all firing to cease unless the enemy became dangerous.\n\n\"After about an hour all firing ceased. Meanwhile, during a comparative lull about a quarter hour after the start, I managed to get to my headquarters at the consulate.\n\n\"On the left of the British bridge only a few rounds were fired by us, it being necessary to deal with some snipers in the buildings opposite.\n\n\"Similar action was taken by the French in their part of the island.\n\n\"One naval rating, Petty Officer Robert M. Chalmers, official No. J.15613, was wounded in the hand, and three civilians, one fairly seriously, the others slightly.\n\n\"In the French concession one civilian was killed and one wounded.\n\nThree Japanese civilians were wounded, one of whom was close to one of our Lewis gun positions before we opened fire.\n\n\"I have no doubt myself, and all evidence confirms the opinion, that this was a deliberate 'incident' engineered by a section of the local Government.\n\n\"I understand the Chinese casualties were roughly thirty killed and seventy wounded.\n\nC\n\nOne bullet pierced the water-tank and reduced the water supply until the damage can be repaired.\n\n\"The defence forces remained on duty till 6 o'clock this morning, when the specials were withdrawn; the naval parties remain at their posts.\n\n\"The enormous handicap Shameen suffers under from defence and communication points of view were very evident. To communicate or pass from one block to another means crossing a bullet-swept street. Bullets were also coming down Central Avenue from the French bridge end. Some telephone communication was fixed up, but is not very satisfactory, there being no exchange on the island.\n\n\"The Chinese authorities have written accusing us and the French of deliberately creating this incident. In these circumstances the danger of further attacks is very prominent. I have therefore to-day asked for troops to be sent up.\n\n\"The number of men available from the gunboats is not sufficient to keep our lines manned for more than a day or two without relief.\n\n\"We are also running the water-works and freezing installation, and the danger of attack from the water side must be guarded against.\n\n\"Further report will be made when details are available.\n\n\"Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n\"M. MAXWELL SCOTT, Commander.\n\n\"S.N.O., West River.\"\n\n\"Commander Scott to Commodore, Hong Kong.\n\n\"H.M.S. Tarantula,' at Canton, June 30, 1925.\n\n\"I have the honour, in continuation of my letter of the 24th June, 1925, to report that there is no doubt that the soldiers who started the firing belonged to that section of the Cantonese army trained by Russians at the military academy\n\n29\n\nof Whampoa. Full of confidence engendered by their easy victories over Chen Cheng Ming's troops and the Yunnanese army, they may have readily thought that they could take Shameen. In any case, there is no doubt that they had expressed that intention on the previous day.\n\n\"His Britannic Majesty's consul-general is, however, willing to believe that the local Government were not directly cognizant of their intentions.\n\n\"Whether or no their attack was meant seriously or merely to create an 'incident' it is impossible to say, but, if the former, it is providential that it took place before the whole Shakee Creek was lined with troops. The creek had so many sampans alongside the Chinese side and the tide was at such a height that a determined rush would have probably succeeded in getting many men into Shameen and through our defence line.\n\n\"The number of casualties on the Chinese side is stated to be thirty-seven killed, including one woman and one teacher and four students of the Canton Christian College, and eighty wounded.\n\n\"After firing the first few volleys the soldiers took up positions of vantage in the houses and behind the pillars supporting the verandahs and continued to fire rapidly. It is inevitable under the circumstances that some unfortunate civilians should suffer, especially from ricochet bullets, but the only case that I have been able to ascertain of a man not in uniform being fired at by the British forces was that of an individual who drew a Mauser pistol from under his clothes.\n\n\"In connection with the order given by me to cease firing when I reached our Lewis-gun post by the British bridge, I would draw attention to the service performed by Petty Officer Robert M. Chalmers, official No. J.15613, who ran down our front line under heavy fire and blew the signal for 'cease fire' continuously until, just as he was passing the Victoria Hotel, he was hit in both hands and fell into the hotel verandah.\n\n\"Two platoons of Indian troops arrived in Shameen on the 25th June and took over that part of the line stretching from the British bridge to the western end of the island. They were at first quartered in tents, but yesterday they were moved into a convenient house, the building of which has just been completed.\n\n\"The officer in command assures me that his men are comfortable and happy. Their keenness is very evident.\n\n\"The Shameen special police have shown great keenness and energy in carrying out many\n\nvaried duties besides taking their share in guard duties; their spirit\n\ncould be no better.\n\n\"Commanding officers, officers and ship's companies have one and all shown great cheeriness and devotion to duty. Their health remains good.\n\n\"The leak in the water-tank has been temporarily plugged, and I have taken the precaution of filling the swimming bath, which now holds 90,000 gallons of drinking water.\n\n\"Informal conversations are being carried on through the good offices of the American and German consuls-general and other neutrals, and the atmosphere is less tense.\n\n\"No soldiers have lately been observed in the vicinity of Shameen.\n\n\"The custom-house was partially reopened on the 29th June; this should tend to ease the situation.\n\n\"His Britannic Majesty's consul-general has assured the neutral mediators that there is no intention of bringing up more troops; for this reason I have stopped the R.E. detachment from landing.\n\n\"I have, &c.\n\nANNEX VI.\n\n\"M. MAXWELL SCOTT, Commander,\n\n\"S.N.O., West River.\"\n\n[F3473/194/10]\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Received July 28.) (No. 5.)\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, June 25, 1925. WITH reference to the local political situation, I have the honour to enclose herewith, for your information, copies of my despatches Nos. 46 and 47 of to-day's date to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n509", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "30\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Palairet.\n\n(No. 46.) Sir,\n\nIN continuation of my despatches Nos. 44 and 45 of the 22nd and 23rd instant, I have the honour to report further on the local situation as follows:-\n\nCanton, June 25, 1925\n\nIn the forenoon of the 23rd, knowing that a monster demonstration was going to take place in the course of the day, the naval and civilian defence units of the British and French concessions took up their allotted posts with strict instructions—at least on this side—to keep, in so far as it was possible to do so, out of sight, and all persons not on duty were forbidden to appear on the back creek, opposite to the road along which the procession was to pass, so that nothing which might be construed as provocation could be charged against us. These orders were strictly observed. Through a British subject, recently engaged as liaison police officer by the city police, a request was the previous evening addressed to the French consulate that permission be given for the procession to enter Shameen by the French bridge and to leave by the British bridge, which request was of course not entertained.\n\nAt 11 A.M. two motor cars passed along the Shakee Street, on the other side of the canal, and distributed leaflets, signed by the cadets of the military school of the Kuangtung army, calling upon all and sundry to eject the foreigner. At about 2:30 P.M. the procession was at the end of the Shakee Street, which commences at the gate of the French bridge, and proceeded along the north bank of the canal. The only persons in the vicinity of our bridge were myself, the British senior naval officer, the superintendent of Shameen police, one or two naval officers, a member of my staff and some unarmed Chinese police, who, being Hakkas, had not walked out with the rest of the Chinese on the island on the 21st. (The customs employees left on the 23rd and the post office employees on the 24th) Unarmed Chinese police lined the road on the other side at intervals of about 50 yards and a company of armed soldiers took up positions under the verandahs of Chinese shops in the neighbourhood of the bridge. Three-quarters of the procession, consisting of labour, agricultural and other unions, marched along in an orderly manner with flags and banners, and I was actually on the point of leaving to send a telegram that all had passed off peacefully, when the senior naval officer remarked to me that perhaps it would be as well to wait until the students came along. In the course of a few minutes bodies of male and female students came in sight, and, on crossing the invisible line separating the British from the French concession, started to raise what I assumed to be college yells, and, in so far as I could understand, calling for cheers for the Kuo Min Tang. In other respects they did not differ from those preceding them.\n\nImmediately following on was a body of armed military cadets, dressed in dark bluish-grey uniforms, who halted at a point some 50 yards east of the bridge-head. I had in the meantime noticed a man get on a box at the mouth of Shoe Lane, which debouches on the canal side, and wave a fan, and at the same time an excited person waving a flag shouted derision at our party.\n\nSome members of the procession fell out, as I thought, to listen to what was being said, when suddenly a rifle shot was heard, and the procession broke up in disorder, rushing for shelter. Half a minute afterwards a volley was fired on to Shameen, and it was only when I found bullets spattering all around me that I realised that an attack was contemplated and beat a hasty retreat, as did those with me. Finding the senior naval officer and myself under fire, which was likewise affecting them, one of our posts in a building to the west of the bridge returned the fire, which was stopped on Commander Maxwell-Scott reaching it. As, however, firing at the island still continued, the other posts opened fire likewise, as did the French posts. This is all I personally witnessed.\n\nFiring from our side lasted intermittently for about 10 minutes, until the orders to cease fire could reach the further posts, all ways of communication being under fire. After this occasional shots were necessary to deal with snipers, who were very persistent on the other side. Even this was soon stopped by orders not to reply unless they became too dangerous. About 4:30 all firing on both sides stopped. The casualties on Shameen were French non-combatant killed, 7-8 Europeans and Japanese wounded, including 1 British subject—also non-combatant—comparatively seriously, and the Commissioner of Customs slightly. The casualties on the other side are reported to be 37 killed, including 1 woman, 4 students of the Canton Christian College and a teacher, and about 80 wounded.\n\nA despatch on subsequent developments follows.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON,\n\n31\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nAn Announcement concerning the Case of the Shanghai Butchery.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nBROTHERS: The great slaughter which the imperialists hoped and planned for began in Shanghai on the 30th day of the 5th month. It was extended to Hankow, then to Tsingtao, and now at last it has reached the revolutionary capital of Kwangchow. Shameen Japanese supplied weapons and incited Chinese workmen to kill Chinese workmen.\n\nWith the inner propensities of wolves and dogs the cruel and inhuman imperialists (Britain and Japan), intending piecemeal to seize China, accordingly do not hesitate to adopt primitive savagery and the most cruel methods in order to repress the movements of the Chinese people and to harass their active vanguard, viz., the labourers and students.\n\nThis is a life and death crisis for us Chinese. If we do not rise and fight them we shall be their slaves for ever, and for ever encounter their butchery.\n\nThe whole populace of our country must rise up as one and immediately cancel all unequal treaties and overthrow imperialism.\n\nBROTHERS, HASTE TO ARISE, HASTE TO ARISE.\n\nThe Military College of the Nationalist Party (Luk Kwan).\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nHASTE TO ARISE.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Palairet.\n\n(No. 47.) Sir,\n\nCanton, June 25, 1925.\n\nIN continuation of my immediately preceding despatch, I have the honour to report that yesterday morning Mr. Robert Norman came to see me at 8:30 to tell me that the events of the preceding day had created a violent anti-foreign feeling not only in Government circles, but amongst the populace, and to ask me to be good enough to furnish him with a statement as to what actually took place, so that he might be in a position to correct wrong impressions.\n\nThis of course was at once furnished, and whilst we were talking there was handed to me a despatch from the Civil Governor, holding me responsible for all that had happened and accusing me of having committed a premeditated outrage. An identic despatch was addressed to my French and Portuguese colleagues.\n\nI enclose copies of my reply thereto, and of a letter from M. Leurquin anticipating the Civil Governor's protest.\n\nMr. da Horta contented himself with a two-line note denying that the \"Patria\" had fired a single shot. The other consuls—de carrière and merchant—received an identic communication couched in the usual terms of protest. My American colleague was requested to visit the Civil Governor at 1 P.M., with a view to seeing what could be done by way of mediation. Accompanied by Captain Cousten of the United States navy, Mr. Jenkins went into the Yamen, where he was met by Mr. Fu Ping-hsiang, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and the upshot of the conversation appears to have been that ultimately some sort of commission of investigation is to be set up, on which it was suggested that the American and the German consuls might sit, with a view to collecting statements on oath as to what actually occurred.\n\nI have let it be known, and my French colleague concurs in this with me, that I am quite prepared to assist in procuring such evidence, but that I will not permit any...\n\n510", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504908, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "Should, however, the question arise of the temporary withdrawal of this Consulate owing to the departure of British firms or to the difficulty of maintaining existence here, the American attitude will relieve us of any obligation to consider their interests.\n\nI have etc.,\n\nR. S. PRATT\n\nActing Consul.\n\nPage 172", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "It is intelligible, but rather futile.\n\nShould, however, the question arise of the temporary withdrawal of this Consulate owing to the departure of British firms or to the difficulty of maintaining existence here, the American attitude will relieve us of any obligation to consider their interests.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(84)\n\nR. S. PRATT.\n\nActing Consul.\n\n202", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "(4)\n\nWhen the first company of soldiers were about opposite the Victoria Hotel the procession stopped and the shouting on the part of the cadets increased; at a moment later there seemed to be disorder among the soldiers, who went out of close order formation and several assumed a firing position on one knee with rifles pointed toward Shameen.\n\nA shot was fired by the Chinese from Shakee and was immediately followed by two other shots. This appeared to us to be the preconcerted signal and was instantly followed by a heavy volley of rifle fire from the Chinese. This heavy firing continued for the space of about one minute, when machine-guns were heard firing from the direction of the French Concession. About this time a few rounds of artillery fire was heard from some ship off the French Bund.\n\nJOHN T. THORNTON, 1st Lieut., U. S. Marine Corps.\n\nH. F. BAUER (Int. Bank, U. S. citizen). T. G. STOKES (Dairy Farm: Australian). F. W. BENDER (Int. Bank: U. S. citizen).\n\n(5)\n\nAPPENDIX D.\n\nDispatch from Sir James Jamieson, British Consul-General at Canton, addressed to the Civil Governor of Canton, in reply to a dispatch from the latter in which it was stated that the firing was commenced by foreign troops in Shameen.\n\nH.B.M. CONSULATE-GENERAL,\n\nCANTON, June 24th, 1925.\n\nTo His Excellency the Civil Governor of Kwangtung.\n\nSir, I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of the communication which you have been good enough to address to me on the subject of the shooting which took place in the Shakee Street yesterday afternoon.\n\nI would in the first place point out that in this unfortunate affair the Portuguese gunboat took no part whatsoever: it was the defence forces of the British and French Concessions alone who replied to the attack made on them by Chinese troops or military students on the other side. I can, from the evidence of my own eyes, make a statement on oath that the firing was first started by the Chinese. As it was, the British Senior Naval Officer and myself, who were standing unarmed by the bridge for the special purpose of guarding against any precipitate or nervous action on the part of the defenders, only escaped with our lives out of the hail of bullets which was directed at us. It was only then that in self-defence fire was opened from this side, and by the French forces, which were similarly attacked. Firing from this side ceased even before sniping from the tops of the houses opposite by Chinese soldiers was discontinued.\n\nPage 491\n\n \n\nPage 491 \n\nPage 491", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "content_text": "## THE FOOCHOW OUTRAGES. \n\n### STORY OF RIOT TOLD BY LADY MISSIONARY. \n\n#### FOREIGN WOMEN MALTREATED. \n\nThe following story with regard to the recent Foochow outrages is culled from the N.-C. Daily News, of last Wednesday, which states:- \n\nFurther interesting details of some of the atrocities committed against foreigners, principally missionaries, in Foochow by bandit soldiers who carried the emblem of the 17th Army, and an enraged mob, were brought to Shanghai yesterday by Mrs. H. D. Matthews, whose husband is superintendent of the Church Missionary Society Hospital. Mrs. Matthews' arrival yesterday evening was on the N.-C. S. Yusong.\n\nMrs. Matthews herself had her rings seized from her fingers by soldiers while threatened by others who pointed their knives at her, as much as to say, \"If you don't give us the rings, your fingers will be cut off.\" Mrs. Matthews was spared the personal violence to which several of the missionary women were subjected, but both her and her daughter's pockets were rifled and their house looted by the soldiers.\n\n### Tribute to Personal Servants. \n\nMrs. Matthews paid great tribute to her own personal servants and to the hospital servants, saying, \"they were simply wonderful to the foreigners.\" At the hospital, the local attendants dressed in uniforms of soldiers who had been treated there and stood guard outside, passing themselves off as part of the rioting army who were supposed to be doing guard duty on the premises. In this manner, they protected the buildings from being looted. By various pretexts, her personal servants managed to save many of the family's personal belongings, although much bedding and clothing were taken in the initial raid.\n\nMrs. Matthews credited her servants with great heroism in accomplishing a feat which the ordinary Chinese would not dare to think of. It was either the first or second night of the riot that the servants overcame one of the soldiers who was bent on looting the premises. They took him to the police station and he was turned over to the military to be summarily executed the next morning.\n\n### Lies About The Spanish Nuns. \n\nAccording to Mrs. Matthews, the trouble was precipitated through a ruse which had been prepared by the agitators and directed against the nuns in the Spanish Mission. These nuns' duty in part was to save infants from death by exposure or starvation. The agitators secured the bodies of about 25 dead infants and attributed their death to the Catholic missionaries boiling them. The mob became excited and in a short while were in sufficient mass to attack the nuns and priests.\n\n### Women And Children Attacked. \n\nAfter despoiling the Catholic Mission premises, the soldiers turned their attention to several other mission premises, including the Anglo-Chinese Girl's School, the Church Mission Society Hospital (Women's Division), and the Methodist Episcopal compound. It seemed as if in most cases the soldiers and mob attacked the women and children rather than the men. At the Anglo-Chinese Girls' School, the soldiers attacked a foreign school teacher and with their knives cut the women's outer garments to pieces, then seizing and tearing most of the remaining clothing from their bodies. The women ran screaming with the bandits in pursuit. They were finally rescued by friendly soldiers and escorted to safety amid the curses and epithets of the mob.\n\nIt was in her own home that Mrs. Matthews suffered indignities when she was forced to take her rings from her fingers and had to witness ruffians searching the pockets of her 13-year-old daughter. The soldiers then took other clothing from the beds. They became alarmed, it seemed to Mrs. Matthews, at the approach of other soldiers and left before they had completed their villainous work. The local police made very real efforts on their behalf, and both she and her daughter were taken to the police station and protected until they could go to the British Consulate.\n\n### Mr. Matthews Attacked. \n\nMr. Matthews returned to his home several days later and someone aware of his presence threw a miniature bomb over the fence which, as it exploded, struck a Chinese child. Mr. Matthews had also been attacked and stabbed slightly during one of the various melees. In deference to Chinese Christians, he has remained away from his home and the hospital since that time, a policy which all missionaries are now pursuing.\n\nA Chinese hospital, the head of which is a Chinese Christian doctor, was also looted, probably because the head did not subscribe to the theory of the infants' murder by the nuns.\n\nPage 150\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506918, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "content_text": "60 \n\nwas wounded and became unconscious. The wound proved serious and he was removed to a hospital for medical treatment. Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of Finance, was an eye-witness of the incident. I then went to the British Consulate and asked them why the gunboats had opened fire for a trifling conflict among private individuals, thus raising the indignation of the masses. In reply, the British Consul stated that the guns fired by the British gunboat were to give the alarm on seeing that big masses were assembling together to attack the British Concession. I asked if the British Consul could manage to maintain order in the Concession and if not, all British marines should be withdrawn and our troops should be allowed to enter the Concession to maintain order so as to avoid any trouble. The British Consul replied that he would discuss the matter when necessary. Finding that the relations between China and Great Britain had not broken off, I did not press the British Consul to accede to our request. Therefore, I left without much result.\n\nOn the following day at 11 a.m., the British Consul suddenly sent a man to see me requesting me to send some troops to the Concession to maintain order. I acceded to his request and sent a detachment. I also sent Mr. Fan Yung, the Secretary, to see the British Consul and had a grave discussion with him. We demanded that all British marines should be withdrawn and that the British Consul should send an official application to us for troops; otherwise, our troops would not take over such a great responsibility. At first, the British Consul only agreed to make the application verbally, but after repeated negotiations, an official application was given by him, which was brought back by my secretary. The application reads as follows:-\n\n\"In \n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE NO. 1\n\n**SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST LIMITED**\n\n139\n\nHONG KONG, 13th May, 1927.\n\nH.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., \nGovernment House, \nHong Kong.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI beg to report that on 9th May, Mr. Burnett, Manager of the China Mail newspaper and myself proceeded to Canton to interview Mr. Tsang Yung-pao, Director of the Political Department of the Chinese Nationalist Revolutionary Armies.\n\nOn the morning of 10th May, we called at H.M. British Consulate, Shameen, and interviewed Mr. Brennan who placed us under the charge of Mr. Hall, the Vice-Consul.\n\nAt 12.45 p.m., Mr. J. Braga, Reuter's Correspondent, Canton, joined us and we proceeded to the Governor's Yamen, Canton. On arrival there we were informed that Mr. Tsang Yung-pao was sick and unable to interview us.\n\nWe were introduced to Mr. Lien Lai, who styled himself the Acting Director of the same Department. What was said during the interview is in part told by Mr. Braga, whose account, I believe, you have already received.\n\nThe interview was a failure. Mr. Tsang in his letter to Mr. Brennan under date May 4 stated that its object was to \"establish a friendly feeling\" and to exchange views. Mr. Lai by his uncompromising attitude and refusal to allow us to state any views, made this impossible. Mr. Lai is a young man", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507412, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "The British Consul-General, \nBritish Consulate, \nShameen, \nCanton.\n\n## 142 \nSir, \n\nThe bearer of this letter is Mr. Hin Wong, one of our Chinese Correspondents. I am sending him to Canton in response to the letter which Mr. Tsang Yeung Po, head of the Political Department, Military Headquarters, Canton, wrote to your good self and the contents of which have been communicated to us by His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nI understand that Mr. Tsang Yeung Po is desirous of being introduced to the Editors in Canton of the Hong Kong papers \"in order to establish friendly relations and to exchange views\". Mr. Hin Wong makes his headquarters at Hong Kong at the moment but he lived formerly in Canton, still has his private correspondents there and visits the City himself occasionally. He is thoroughly conversant with Canton politics and personalities as a few years ago he was one of the Editors of the `CANTON TIMES` and the head of the Canton Information Bureau. He had to leave Canton owing to conflict with Red influence.\n\nIn the circumstances he seems to me an excellent person to \"exchange views\" with Mr. Tsang Yeung Po, and if you can give him the introduction required to facilitate the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926", "content_text": "(F5395/4068/10)\n\n**BRITISH LEGATION,**\n\n**PEKING.**\n\n23rd April, 1927.\n\n88\n\nMy dear Brenan,\n\nI have received, and given a good deal of thought to, your despatch No. 31 of 8 March, in which you reply to the criticisms made by the Governor of Hongkong on your conduct of affairs in Canton in September last.\n\nAlthough I was still at home when most of the events occurred with which these papers deal, I have gone through the dossiers, and consulted members of the Legation who were here at the time; and I am quite clear, as a result of doing so, that the substance of your reply to Sir Cecil's despatch is in accordance with the real facts. Sir Cecil's main point is that you prematurely \"suspended further action by the British Navy\" against the strike pickets; but it is quite evident to me that, in doing what you did on this occasion, you were correctly interpreting the policy and wishes of the Government. That is the justification of your action, and that is all that matters. Into the merits of that policy we need none of us now go.\n\nI do not think, however, that it would be in the public interest to allow the Governor's remarks to become the subject of official controversy, if we can possibly avoid it. I see that they have a sting in them, arising from the fact that he identifies certain views and actions in a personal way with yourself, which he might for the purposes of his argument equally well have attributed impersonally to you.\n\nJ. F. Brenan, Esquire,\nBritish Consulate-General,\nCanton.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508490, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926", "content_text": "89\n\nthe Government; but the proper course for us seems to me to be to assume that this is due merely to thoughtlessness; and, if it be, then perhaps the less we make of it officially the better. The really important thing is that, in spite of any differences of view or policy, harmonious relations shall be maintained between your Consulate General and the Government of Hongkong. I know that you realise this, and have done everything you can to promote harmony; and if I suggest that you should forego the satisfaction of an official reply to what you consider are aspersions on your judgement, I believe I am only suggesting a course which the Foreign Office will consider wise and unselfish and which will in the long run commend itself as such to you also.\n\nAs the Governor's despatch was sent to Tokyo and Shanghai, as well as to here, to you and the Colonial Office, I am sending a copy of this letter and of your despatch No. 31 privately to Sir John Tilley and to Barton. I am also sending a copy private to Sir V. Wellesley, and I am asking the Foreign Office by telegram not to broadcast the correspondence in print or otherwise until the receipt of this letter. This will to some extent meet the wish expressed at the end of your despatch No. 31; but I hesitate to write to Sir Cecil, or to send him your despatch, until you have received this letter. You may, if you wish, now communicate to him privately a copy of your despatch and of this letter. On the other hand, you may on reflection, and when you know what I am now doing as regards the other recipients of his despatch,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-7 China- general situation 4-3-1927 - 26-4-1927", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-502-7 China- general situation 4-3-1927 - 26-4-1927", "content_text": "## 2. The military situation in China up to 10 A.M. on the 14th April is as follows:-\n\n### Civil War.\n\n(a) The Northerners continue to make progress on the left bank of the Yangtse. Pukow was occupied on the afternoon of the 12th by Shantung troops, the Nationalists withdrawing across the river to Nanking.\n\nSo far no attempt seems to have been made by the Northerners to enter either Nanking or Chinkiang: the immediate \"Northern\" plan seems to be to work westwards and to clear the left bank of the Yangtse of Nationalist troops. The Military Attaché, Peking, believes the next Northern objective to be Anking (halfway between Nanking and Hankow); the Nationalists are still 100-200 miles north of Anking, but there are signs of a Nationalist retreat back to the Yangtse.\n\nChiang Kai-shek has gone to Nanking—possibly to rally the retirement, possibly to make some arrangement with the Shantung Commander. For the first time in the campaign, Southern formations are deserting wholesale to the \"North.\"\n\n(b) On the Hankow-Peking railway fighting is in progress 80 miles north of Hankow, but it is unlikely that Chang Tso-lin will press on to Hankow until Anking is captured.\n\n### Split in the Nationalist Party.\n\nThe military aspect of this dissension grows, and Chiang Kai-shek apparently feels himself strong enough to adopt an independent attitude rather than to bow to the Hankow communist-extremists whose power is exercised through the Labour Unions.\n\nThe army seems loyal to Chiang. At Shanghai, Chiang has raided and disarmed the mercenaries of the local Labour Union, but has not succeeded in eliminating the Communist element. The IVth Army—also loyal to the Commander-in-Chief—has occupied a strategic position on the lines of communication between Hankow and Canton. Even at Hankow many military elements are ready to support Chiang.\n\nChiang Kai-shek is reported to have convened a \"moderate\" conference at Nanking. The outcome of this conference should throw an important light on the stability or otherwise of the Nationalist politico-military machine.\n\n3. The bearing of the above military situation on the question of sanctions is as follows. The forts and arsenals on the Yangtse, which had been designated for destruction as a form of sanction, are likely before long to fall into the hands of the Northern Chinese. As the latter did not destroy them on their evacuation in retreat, they may have had in mind the desirability of utilising them in the event of their return, and (as pointed out to the Cabinet by the Chief of the Naval Staff) would probably be antagonised by their destruction by the Powers or by ourselves.\n\nWe have considered the possible alternative of occupying these positions with a military force and handing them over intact to the Northerners in the event of their arrival. This, however, would involve locking up troops for a period the length of which cannot be measured, and we therefore decided to reject this idea. A further objection to any action against the forts is that they are at present held by the forces of Chiang Kai-shek, who is now openly defying the extremist elements in the Southern Government and is not unlikely to deal with the forces from Hunan who support the extremist party and were responsible for the outrages at Nanking. Any action taken against the forts would prove detrimental to Chiang Kai-shek and tend to antagonise him, which, in the above circumstances, is obviously undesirable.\n\nIn present conditions, therefore, we recommend that the destruction or occupation of the forts on the Yangtse and of the arsenal at Hankow should be abandoned as a measure of sanction, though, if circumstances change, it might still prove useful.\n\n4. We have also considered the possibility, mentioned by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the last Cabinet Meeting, of a re-occupation of the British Concession at Hankow. If this operation were undertaken, it would be necessary to place a military garrison in the Concession, and this new military commitment would be undertaken in the heart of China, 600 miles up the Yangtse. Having regard to existing commitments, we do not consider this a feasible operation.\n\n5. In the circumstances, the only sanctions which we are able to suggest are:—\n| Sanction |\n| --- |\n| (i) The seizure of the Cantonese Fleet; |\n| (ii) The seizure of Customs revenues; |\n| (iii) The destruction of the Dane Island and Bogue Forts at Canton. |\n\nOn these proposals we offer the following preliminary observations.\n\n6. The seizure of the fleet is undoubtedly a feasible operation which should exercise some effect on the Cantonese. We feel bound to mention, however, that at Amoy, where disturbances were reported a short time ago, the situation is now peaceful, chiefly due to efforts of Chinese Naval Authorities (`Commander-in-Chief's telegram No. 949 of the 7th April`).\n\n7. The seizure of Customs revenues can hardly be described as a \"military sanction,\" but appears to us one of the possibilities of which ought to be explored. In this connection we draw attention to `Sir Miles Lampson's telegram No. 674 of the 11th April` on the subject of sanctions, in which the following remarks occur :-\n\n\"As regards reparation, Consul-General's estimate may seem very large, but it is clear from reports of looting that very extensive damage has been done. American estimate of their losses is, I believe, even greater. I think it can be accepted as quite certain that Nationalists will never voluntarily produce amount of required compensation. On this head I suggest we should at once consult His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai to ascertain whether proceeds of surtaxes at Shanghai can be impounded and what steps should be necessary. If they can, we might consider at once pressing for this being done. Nationalists are reported to have railway loan of 5,000,000 dollars in Chinese banks on their security, but there is no reason why we should allow this money to be used for further military operations when they have thrown off all semblance of anything but open hostility to us. In this connection we have to-day reports of Kiukiang Consulate being occupied and looted, and of Chinkiang Consulate also being seized.\"\n\nIt has to be borne in mind that the impounding of the proceeds of the surtaxes would probably react immediately on General Chiang Kai-shek's position and would probably impair his financial resources. We venture, however, to recommend that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs should consult the Consul-General at Shanghai on Sir Miles Lampson's proposal as quoted above, inviting his views at the same time on the bearing of the proposed action on Chiang Kai-shek's position.\n\n8. The third possible sanction is the destruction of the Dane Island and Bogue Forts covering the main approaches by water to Canton. This course was recommended by the Governor of Hong Kong in a telegram dated the 26th March, and was concurred in by the local Naval and Military authorities. In our Report of the 29th March (`Paper No. C.O.S. 69`) we rejected the proposal on grounds explained in the following extract:\n\n\"This operation would involve the use of military forces and the occupation of Chinese territory. Insufficient troops for the purpose are available at Hong Kong, and those surplus to the garrison of that fortress form part of the Shanghai Defence Force and ought not to be committed to any other operation. In fact, generally we are opposed at this juncture to any action which would involve an additional commitment of unknown scope in China involving the land forces.\"\n\nThe objection in regard to the occupation of Chinese territory no longer applies when sanctions are under consideration, but the above objection in regard to the availability of military forces still holds good. Nevertheless, in view of the fact that almost all effective sanctions in the Yangtse region are ruled out in present circumstances, as explained in the foregoing paragraphs, we think that the possibilities of action in the neighbourhood of Canton ought to be further explored. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff has accordingly undertaken to instruct the General Officer Commanding at Hong Kong, in concert with the Senior Naval Officer, to report his general views as to the feasibility of the operation and the forces required in present circumstances. The Chief of the Naval Staff is, at the same time, authorising the Senior Naval Officer to confer with the General Officer Commanding, and is instructing him that, if aerial reconnaissance and photographs are considered desirable, he should first ascertain from the Acting Consul-General at Canton whether there is any political objection. The Chief of the Naval Staff is also asking the Senior Naval Officer to consider whether aerial reconnaissance would militate against surprise, and ought, therefore, to be reserved until attack is imminent. We recommend that the Secretary... \n\nPage 38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-7 China- general situation 4-3-1927 - 26-4-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-7 China- general situation 4-3-1927 - 26-4-1927", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-502-7 China- general situation 4-3-1927 - 26-4-1927", "content_text": "## Page -6-\n\nnecessary. If they can, we might consider at once pressing for this being done. Nationalists are reported to have a railway loan of 5,000,000 dollars in Chinese banks on their security, but there is no reason why we should allow this money to be used for further military operations when they have thrown off all semblance of anything but open hostility to us. In this connection, we have today reports of Kiukiang Consulate being occupied and looted, and of Chinkiang Consulate also being seized.\n\nIt has to be borne in mind that the impounding of the proceeds of the surtaxes would probably react immediately on General Chiang Kai-shek's position and would probably impair his financial resources. We venture, however, to recommend that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs should consult the Consul-General at Shanghai on Sir Miles Lampson's proposal as quoted above, inviting his views at the same time on the bearing of the proposed action on Chiang Kai-shek's position.\n\nThe third possible sanction is the destruction of the Dane Island and Bogue Forts covering the main approaches by water to Canton. This course was recommended by the Governor of Hong Kong in a telegram dated March 26th, and was concurred in by the local Naval and Military authorities. In our Report of March 29th (`C.O.S. 69`), we rejected the proposal on grounds explained in the following extract.\n\nThis operation would involve the use of military forces and the occupation of Chinese territory. Insufficient troops for the purpose are available at Hong Kong, and those surplus to the garrison of that fortress form part of the Shanghai Defence Force and ought not to be committed to any other operation. In fact, generally we are opposed at this juncture to any action which would involve an additional commitment of unknown scope in China involving the land forces.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-7 China- general situation 4-3-1927 - 26-4-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509522, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "content_text": "## 3. \nWith foreign supervision and Chinese material, magnificent structures can be erected in an incredibly short time. Examples are the Colony of Hong Kong, the Customs Administration, the Shanghai Municipality, and the British concessions at the larger ports. They are all apparently based on Chinese industry and commerce, but they are kept to their high level by the firm hold of the few foreigners who control them. Immediately that grasp is released, the whole thing crumbles and subsides to the mud-hut level of native undertakings. And so with the Nationalist revolution. When Borodin and his assistants were in the saddle, the revenues of the province were reorganised, accounts were checked, peculation reduced, and money flowed into the Treasury. The attack on British interests was skilfully directed and regulated. The various attacking forces were kept up to the mark and yet restrained within the safety limit. Propaganda was invented and organised to the best advantage, the main object being to bludgeon any Chinese opposition by denouncing it as traitorous and imperialistic. The army was created and supplied with a corps of officers trained at the Whampoa Academy by Russian instructors. Education consisted in revolutionary politics as much as military science, whilst the arms for their equipment were shipped from Vladivostok. By the time that the Cantonese Northern expedition had set forth on its triumphal career, the Russians had welded the left wing Kuo Min-tang party into a formidable and well-disciplined political and military machine, which not only defied and flouted all the foreign Powers, but at the same time brushed aside such feeble opposition as the disunited Northern militarists were able to place in its path.\n\n## 4. \nFortunately, the success of the Nationalists was so rapid and the territory they occupied so vast, that the handful of Russians were unable to maintain control over the scattered forces, and as soon as the Chinese were left to themselves, the usual Chinese vices of self-seeking, personal intrigue, and general incompetence destroyed the organisation which had been so carefully built up. The excesses of Communist labour alienated all the property owners, however small, and the Chinese population is after all made up of small property owners. The extremist civilian politicians in the Hankow group became jealous of Chiang Kai-shek and other generals, who, they felt, were usurping too much power. The latter, realising that a plot was on foot for their overthrow, struck suddenly and hard at their enemies. A general round-up of Communists and labour leaders took place in the middle of April up and down the coast from Canton to Shanghai, and for the time being, Soviet influence is at a discount. But from the moment that Russian control over the Nationalist movement was eliminated, the whole thing began to break up and become much less dangerous so far as foreign interests were concerned.\n\n## 5. \nIn Canton, at all events, we are, as I have said above, back in old China. The committee form of government may be retained, but General Li Chai-sum is in reality the Military Governor of this province and General Wang Shui-hung that of Kwangsi. The theory is that they are subordinate to the Nationalist Government at Nanking, but their allegiance is much like that of the northern provinces to Peking, in the days when the Peking Government had rather more power than it has now. Unimportant orders and appointments may be accepted, but in vital matters, I imagine that General Li Chai-sum maintains his independence, and there are signs that he does not see eye to eye with Nanking over the disposal of the Kuangtung revenues. General Li, moreover, is a Chinese soldier of the old pattern. Although a native of Kwangsi, he was educated at the Paotingfu Military Academy in Chihli, and speaks the Peking dialect better than Cantonese. He certainly has no sympathy with Communism or labour unrest, and I do not think that he is particularly anti-foreign. There is, however, still a strong Labour party in Canton with which he has to reckon, and he doubtless would be prepared to let them agitate against the foreigner if it were a convenient way of diverting their energies from his own direction. The measure of protection he afforded to British interests would probably depend exactly on the amount of benefit he hoped to get out of us and the extent to which he feared our vengeance. I do not imagine that he is hampered by any political principles or scruples.\n\n## 6. \nOn the other hand, his semi-independent position is a vulnerable one. Like his brother militarists in the North, he is liable to attack on all sides and to the defection of his colleagues and subordinates. He therefore cannot afford lightly to antagonise the foreigner, and especially the British, with their large military and naval forces, their wealthy Chinese commercial community in Hong Kong, from whom he hopes to draw direct financial assistance, and their trade, which is necessary to his revenue. The tone of the local administration in dealing with this consulate-general has become a good deal less truculent than it used to be, and there have been a number of indications that General Li desires to avoid unpleasantness with the British authorities. He settled the \"Lungshan\" incident in a prompt and satisfactory manner. He sent a representative to attend my reception on the King's birthday, whilst he himself went unofficially to Hong Kong to watch the naval and military review which took place in the colony on that day. He is placing orders in Hong Kong for the building of a number of steam launches for piracy suppression. He is discouraging the delegates of the Seamen's Union, who have appealed to the Canton Government for assistance over the closing of their union in Hong Kong. I am told that he will prevent the proposed erection of a further memorial to the \"Shakee massacre\" bearing an insulting inscription about British and French imperialism, and, generally speaking, he is keeping good order, and British interests are not being molested in his jurisdiction. This, of course, is not disinterested affection, and he is subjected to a good deal of pressure in the other direction. He is roundly denounced by Labour agitators as a counter-revolutionary and a \"running dog of the imperialists,\" and his further attitude towards the British may, as I have said before, be expected to depend on what he has to hope or to fear from them.\n\n## 7. \nI trust that all the above will not seem too much of a digression from the subject of this despatch, which is the possibility of blockading China. It is not really so, for in discussing the economic pressure which can be brought to bear on a Government, it is necessary to understand the nature of the forces to which one is opposed. The point I wish to make is that with the disappearance of Russian control, the Nationalist movement has for the time being lost its cohesion. The component parts are themselves in a weaker position and can be dealt with separately without so much danger of serious reprisals in other places. The idea of an international pacific blockade of the whole of China is hardly worth considering. For one thing, neither China nor the Powers are united, or are ever likely to be for such a purpose, and for another, if the Powers were united, there would be no need of a blockade. China would immediately give way to any ordinarily reasonable demands, and presumably His Majesty's Government do not contemplate any other. The picture of all China from Harbin to Canton stoutly resisting a prolonged siege by the navies of the world is a fantastic one nowadays, whatever it may have been a hundred years ago.\n\n## 8. \nA blockade of all China by His Majesty's forces alone would also be impracticable for physical as well as political reasons.\n\n## 9. \nAs regards the more limited blockade of Canton and the West River, some of the above considerations would still apply. If the Great Powers were sufficiently in accord to make a united demand on the Canton authorities, backed up by a show of naval force, no blockade would be necessary. There would be an immediate compliance. But here again, the chance of securing international unanimity in such a matter is so remote as to be scarcely worth consideration. All our experience of the past two years has shown us that it is useless to look for the co-operation of the other Powers in any circumstances that are likely to arise in this province. If the Nanking outrages leave them unmoved, it is not probable that they will allow themselves to be involved in any quarrel with Canton, with the inevitable suspicion that they are pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for the British colony of Hong Kong.\n\n## 10. \nWe therefore come to the only practical problem which is likely to face us in the near future, and that is what we alone are prepared to do in the event of a further attack by boycott or other means on British interests in South China. The report of the Advisory Committee reaches the conclusion that a blockade of Canton, even with prior international agreement, would only be successful in very favourable circumstances. With this view, I entirely disagree. As stated above, I feel certain that if Canton were faced with a reasonable demand by the united Powers backed by a show of force, it would at once give way, but even if it did not, I think the committee underrates the pressure which would be exerted by a complete stoppage of foreign and coastal trade. Canton is now largely dependent on steamer-borne goods and still more so on the junk and launch traffic which fills the innumerable waterways of the delta. The available statistics are given in the reply prepared by the Hong Kong Defence Committee, and I will not repeat them here. All this transport of the necessaries of life could easily be stopped, or seriously interfered with, by river gunboats, and Canton as well as the other towns in the neighbourhood would soon be reduced to dire straits, whatever the quality of the local rice crops might be, and whoever was in power at the time.\n\n## 10. \nA regular blockade would be very much more difficult... \nPage 26 \n[230-17 \nB 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509526, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "content_text": "# 3\n\nWith foreign supervision and Chinese material, magnificent structures can be erected in an incredibly short time. Examples are the Colony of Hong Kong, the Customs Administration, the Shanghai Municipality, and the British concessions at the larger ports. They are all apparently based on Chinese industry and commerce, but they are kept to their high level by the firm hold of the few foreigners who control them. Immediately that grasp is released, the whole thing crumbles and subsides to the mud-hut level of native undertakings. And so with the Nationalist revolution. When Borodin and his assistants were in the saddle, the revenues of the province were reorganised, accounts were checked, peculation reduced, and money flowed into the Treasury. The attack on British interests was skilfully directed and regulated. The various attacking forces were kept up to the mark and yet restrained within the safety limit. Propaganda was invented and organised to the best advantage, the main object being to bludgeon any Chinese opposition by denouncing it as traitorous and imperialistic. The army was created and supplied with a corps of officers trained at the Whampoa Academy by Russian instructors. Education consisted in revolutionary politics as much as military science, whilst the arms for their equipment were shipped from Vladivostok. By the time that the Cantonese Northern expedition had set forth on its triumphal career, the Russians had welded the left wing Kuo Min-tang party into a formidable and well-disciplined political and military machine, which not only defied and flouted all the foreign Powers, but at the same time brushed aside such feeble opposition as the disunited Northern militarists were able to place in its path.\n\n# 4\n\nFortunately, the success of the Nationalists was so rapid and the territory they occupied so vast, that the handful of Russians were unable to maintain control over the scattered forces, and as soon as the Chinese were left to themselves, the usual Chinese vices of self-seeking, personal intrigue, and general incompetence destroyed the organisation which had been so carefully built up. The excesses of Communist labour alienated all the property owners, however small, and the Chinese population is after all made up of small property owners. The extremist civilian politicians in the Hankow group became jealous of Chiang Kai-shek and other generals, who, they felt, were usurping too much power. The latter, realising that a plot was on foot for their overthrow, struck suddenly and hard at their enemies. A general round-up of Communists and labour leaders took place in the middle of April up and down the coast from Canton to Shanghai, and for the time being, Soviet influence is at a discount. But from the moment that Russian control over the Nationalist movement was eliminated, the whole thing began to break up and become much less dangerous so far as foreign interests were concerned.\n\n# 5\n\nIn Canton, at all events, we are, as I have said above, back in old China. The committee form of government may be retained, but General Li Chai-sum is in reality the Military Governor of this province and General Wang Shui-hung that of Kwangsi. The theory is that they are subordinate to the Nationalist Government at Nanking, but their allegiance is much like that of the northern provinces to Peking, in the days when the Peking Government had rather more power than it has now. Unimportant orders and appointments may be accepted, but in vital matters, I imagine that General Li Chai-sum maintains his independence, and there are signs that he does not see eye to eye with Nanking over the disposal of the Kuangtung revenues. General Li, moreover, is a Chinese soldier of the old pattern. Although a native of Kwangsi, he was educated at the Paotingfu Military Academy in Chihli, and speaks the Peking dialect better than Cantonese. He certainly has no sympathy with Communism or labour unrest, and I do not think that he is particularly anti-foreign. There is, however, still a strong Labour party in Canton with which he has to reckon, and he doubtless would be prepared to let them agitate against the foreigner if it were a convenient way of diverting their energies from his own direction. The measure of protection he afforded to British interests would probably depend exactly on the amount of benefit he hoped to get out of us and the extent to which he feared our vengeance. I do not imagine that he is hampered by any political principles or scruples.\n\n# 6\n\nOn the other hand, his semi-independent position is a vulnerable one. Like his brother militarists in the North, he is liable to attack on all sides and to the defection of his colleagues and subordinates. He therefore cannot afford lightly to antagonise the foreigner, and especially the British, with their large military and naval forces, their wealthy Chinese commercial community in Hong Kong, from whom he hopes to draw direct financial assistance, and their trade, which is necessary to his revenue. The tone of the local administration in dealing with this consulate-general has become a good deal less truculent than it used to be, and there have been a number of indications that General Li desires to avoid unpleasantness with the British authorities. He settled the \"Lungshan\" incident in a prompt and satisfactory manner. He sent a representative to attend my reception on the King's birthday, whilst he himself went unofficially to Hong Kong to watch the naval and military review which took place in the colony on that day. He is placing orders in Hong Kong for the building of a number of steam launches for piracy suppression. He is discouraging the delegates of the Seamen's Union, who have appealed to the Canton Government for assistance over the closing of their union in Hong Kong. I am told that he will prevent the proposed erection of a further memorial to the \"Shakee massacre\" bearing an insulting inscription about British and French imperialism, and, generally speaking, he is keeping good order, and British interests are not being molested in his jurisdiction. This, of course, is not disinterested affection, and he is subjected to a good deal of pressure in the other direction. He is roundly denounced by Labour agitators as a counter-revolutionary and a \"running dog of the imperialists,\" and his further attitude towards the British may, as I have said before, be expected to depend on what he has to hope or to fear from them.\n\n# 7\n\nI trust that all the above will not seem too much of a digression from the subject of this despatch, which is the possibility of blockading China. It is not really so, for in discussing the economic pressure which can be brought to bear on a Government, it is necessary to understand the nature of the forces to which one is opposed. The point I wish to make is that with the disappearance of Russian control, the Nationalist movement has for the time being lost its cohesion. The component parts are themselves in a weaker position and can be dealt with separately without so much danger of serious reprisals in other places. The idea of an international pacific blockade of the whole of China is hardly worth considering. For one thing, neither China nor the Powers are united, or are ever likely to be for such a purpose, and for another, if the Powers were united, there would be no need of a blockade. China would immediately give way to any ordinarily reasonable demands, and presumably His Majesty's Government do not contemplate any other. The picture of all China from Harbin to Canton stoutly resisting a prolonged siege by the navies of the world is a fantastic one nowadays, whatever it may have been a hundred years ago. A blockade of all China by His Majesty's forces alone would also be impracticable for physical as well as political reasons.\n\n# 8\n\nAs regards the more limited blockade of Canton and the West River, some of the above considerations would still apply. If the Great Powers were sufficiently in accord to make a united demand on the Canton authorities, backed up by a show of naval force, no blockade would be necessary. There would be an immediate compliance. But here again, the chance of securing international unanimity in such a matter is so remote as to be scarcely worth consideration. All our experience of the past two years has shown us that it is useless to look for the co-operation of the other Powers in any circumstances that are likely to arise in this province. If the Nanking outrages leave them unmoved, it is not probable that they will allow themselves to be involved in any quarrel with Canton, with the inevitable suspicion that they are pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for the British colony of Hong Kong.\n\n# 9\n\nWe therefore come to the only practical problem which is likely to face us in the near future, and that is what we alone are prepared to do in the event of a further attack by boycott or other means on British interests in South China. The report of the Advisory Committee reaches the conclusion that a blockade of Canton, even with prior international agreement, would only be successful in very favourable circumstances. With this view, I entirely disagree. As stated above, I feel certain that if Canton were faced with a reasonable demand by the united Powers backed by a show of force, it would at once give way, but even if it did not, I think the Committee underrates the pressure which would be exerted by a complete stoppage of foreign and coastal trade. Canton is now largely dependent on steamer-borne goods and still more so on the junk and launch traffic which fills the innumerable waterways of the delta. The available statistics are given in the reply prepared by the Hong Kong Defence Committee, and I will not repeat them here. All this transport of the necessaries of life could easily be stopped, or seriously interfered with, by river gunboats, and Canton as well as the other towns in the neighbourhood would soon be reduced to dire straits, whatever the quality of the local rice crops might be, and whoever was in power at the time.\n\n# 10\n\nA regular blockade would be very much more difficult, and perhaps... \n\nPage 31\nPage 32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512575, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "Page 51\n\n2.0 Sex(14) 2\n\napplications for British registration, it will be seen from Enclosure 1* that Mr. Brenan is refusing to entertain them until denationalisation certificates are produced.\n\n5. Mr. Brenan observes that any undue optimism as to the Chinese carrying out their part of the arrangement with a modicum of efficiency and good faith would be misplaced, but it is a good augury for the success of the scheme that in fact one denationalisation certificate has already been issued under the new regulations in the circumstances reported in Canton despatch No. 68 of the 8th May, copy of which was sent direct to you.\n\n6. The second development, to which reference is made above, is at Shanghai. It will be seen from the correspondence enclosed in my despatch No. 267 of the 19th March that on the 31st December, 1927, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Shanghai, in a letter to His Majesty's consul-general, returned to the question of Chinese of dual nationality, with a special reference to civil and criminal cases in the provisional court at Shanghai. The court had suggested that an attempt should be made to solve the difficulties which were constantly arising in its administration of justice owing to the existence of dual nationality, and had proposed that negotiations should be set on foot with a view to arriving at a general and satisfactory settlement of questions of dual nationality both as regards persons already registered at foreign consulates and as regards future applicants for such registration. The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs endorsed this suggestion, and asked that it might be examined. Similar letters had been received by the other consuls in Shanghai, and the question was discussed at a meeting of the consular body on the 18th January, when it was agreed that individual replies should be sent to the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, informing him that it had been decided to apply to the respective Ministers for sanction to make some arrangement applicable locally in the provisional court.\n\n7. The Netherlands and Portuguese Legations at Peking refused permission to their respective consuls-general at Shanghai to make a local arrangement of the matter, but Sir Sidney Barton stated that for his part he was prepared, if I agreed, to take action alone and see whether a solution ad hoc could not be found, and he proposed to take as a basis a personal suggestion which was made by the Chinese representatives on the commission set up in Peking last year to examine that part of His Majesty's Government's treaty alteration offer of January 1927 which concerned the application of Chinese law in British courts. This suggestion, which seemed to Sir Sidney Barton to offer a reasonable solution of the question, was that no person of Chinese race should be entitled, while in Chinese territory, to claim British protection unless-\n\n(1.) He has been registered at a British consulate and his name has been communicated to the Chinese authorities; and\n\n(2.) If he has resided in China for over six months he has, in addition to registration at a British consulate, obtained from the Chinese authorities a certificate of denationalisation.\n\n8. I replied on the 19th March (to Shanghai, No. 40, sub-enclosure in my despatch No. 267) authorising Sir Sidney Barton, subject to the concurrence of the Governors of Hong Kong and Singapore, to explore the possibility of reaching a settlement on the bases proposed, and subject also to a stipulation that certificates of denationalisation should not unreasonably be withheld, and on the same date I wrote to the Governors of Hong Kong and Singapore seeking their concurrence (sub-enclosures in my despatch No. 267). The Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong has replied that he concurs (Enclosure 3*), but the Governor of Singapore has made his concurrence dependent on certain conditions (see Enclosure 4*), one of which is that the proposed arrangement does not contain anything repugnant to the action proposed in Mr. Pratt's memorandum. This condition can scarcely be considered to be fulfilled, for Sir Sidney Barton's suggestion amounts to withdrawing protection from all Anglo-Chinese who fail to obtain denationalisation certificates within six months, whereas Mr. Pratt's scheme is to continue indefinitely the protection of those persons of dual nationality who have already been registered, but to afford no protection to any other Anglo-Chinese persons at all in future, giving transient visitors at the most a claim to the good offices, advice and assistance of British consuls.\n\n*\n\n* Not printed.\n\nProbably 70 of 12th received by -see fawx. 44 foot wote. (No. 70 met May-sel F.C.)\n\n9. Thus there are now three proposals for dealing with this vexed problem of the protection of persons in China who possess Chinese as well as British nationality:\n\n(a.) Mr. Pratt's proposal that, in accordance with our practice elsewhere, we should recognise the validity of the Chinese Nationality Law in respect to all future applicants and refuse registration and protection in China to all such persons who also have Chinese nationality under Chinese law. Persons already registered are to continue indefinitely to be entitled to protection. Transient visitors, on the other hand, will in no case be entitled to full protection, but at the most to the good offices and assistance of British consuls.\n\n(b.) Mr. Brenan's proposal that persons having dual nationality should be invited to secure denationalisation certificates from the Chinese authorities, failing which they would cease to be registered and protected after a certain period, the duration of which is still to be considered. We are already committed to a trial of this scheme at Canton, which has the advantage, as compared with the former scheme, that it would enable the present registers to be placed on a satisfactory basis, but has the same disadvantage that transient visitors are excluded from the full privileges of British nationality.\n\n(c.) The Chinese proposals originally put forward as a personal suggestion to Mr. Garstin, that no person of Chinese origin shall be protected unless\n\n(1.) He has been registered, and his name has been communicated to the Chinese authorities; and\n\n(2.) If he has resided in China for over six months he has, in addition to registration, obtained from the Chinese authorities a certificate of denationalisation,\n\nThis scheme also would enable the present registers to be placed on a satisfactory basis, and it has the additional advantage of making some provision for the extension of protection to the transient visitor. There are difficulties in all three schemes, but they are not necessarily insuperable, and the schemes themselves do not necessarily conflict, but, in fact, seem rather to evolve one out of the other.\n\n10. To consider these difficulties as they appear to me.\n\n11. I have already referred to the question of transient visitors and suggested that an important defect of schemes (a) and (b) is that no provision is made for this class. Such visitors may be numerous, but are not likely to be a source of great difficulty with the Chinese, while it may be a considerable hardship that British subjects of Chinese descent who are genuinely domiciled in Hong Kong and Singapore should not be able to visit China even for a brief period without being exposed to the peculiarities of a legal or illegal system to which they have ceased to be accustomed. The point is one of concern to the Colonial authorities as affecting the interests of their loyal Anglo-Chinese communities, and the Shanghai scheme provides a solution that may be considered adequate, namely, that transient visitors could obtain full protection for a period not exceeding six months by registering at the British consulate on their arrival in China. It will be for consideration, if this procedure is introduced, what form of passport or other documentary evidence of British nationality should be issued to such persons by the Colonial Governments.\n\n12. As regards persons already registered, proposal (a) contemplates that their protection will have to continue until they die or cease for some other reason to register. The Shanghai scheme provides a solution by which these persons would continue to be protected for a period, so that they may have an opportunity of obtaining Chinese denationalisation certificates, but after the expiry of this period, if they had failed to obtain a certificate, protection would be withdrawn and they would no longer be allowed to register.\n\n13. As regards persons not previously registered who have dual nationality, proposal (a) is that registration and protection should be refused altogether. Hardship might thereby be caused in certain cases, but the introduction of a system enabling these persons to apply, if they so desire, for the cancellation of their Chinese nationality meets a serious deficiency in the Chinese Nationality Law. The efficacy of this system in preventing hardship and in meeting the case of the transient visitor should be greatly enhanced by the interposition of a period of grace, during which Anglo-Chinese would have an opportunity of obtaining Chinese denationalisation certificates, and after which, in the absence of such certificates, they would automatically cease to trouble us.\n\n[594 d-1].\n\nB 2\n\nPage 50", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512623, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "101\n\n5\n\n102\n\nGovernor Sir A. Young, September 25, 1912. (Confidential Print 11426, No. 18.) To Colonial Office, December 20, 1912. (Confidential Print 11426, No. 19.) instructions were cancelled, but nothing was said about naturalisation. Thereafter, it was only by a process of historical research that a consul could ascertain that such individuals should not be registered or protected. In consequence, cases occasionally occurred where colonially naturalised Anglo-Chinese were registered as British subjects or as British protected persons.* A similar case having occurred in Foochow in 1921 (see Appendix I, No. 25, case of Yeoh Hong Pin), it was again definitely laid down that naturalised British subjects of Chinese descent should not be registered unless they could show that they had divested themselves of their Chinese nationality with the consent of the Chinese Government.\n\n(B.)-Natives of the Malay States. A Foreign Office circular of the 12th July, 1904, specifically laid down that subjects of the Malay States are not regarded as British protected persons outside the limits of the Federated Malay States.\" Consequently, when the 1904 instructions were issued by Sir E. Satow, persons of Chinese descent born in the Malay States were not included among the classes of Anglo-Chinese entitled to registration and protection in China. At the same time the status of the subjects of the native States of India came under consideration, and the Law Officers on the 17th February, 1905, gave the following opinion:\n\nWhen the whole control of foreign relations has been assumed by His Majesty's Government it appears to us that the duty of protection followed. What measure of protection can be given must depend upon the extent of the jurisdiction enjoyed by His Majesty's Government in the country where protection is desired. If that jurisdiction is confined to those who are, in the strict technical sense of our municipal law, British subjects, it cannot be exercised in respect of protected persons.\n\nThis opinion did not deal with the question of dual nationality. It was communicated to His Majesty's representatives abroad, but it was not understood that it altered in any way the ruling as to subjects of the Malay States laid down in the previous circular of the 12th July, 1904, to which no reference was made. In 1912 the Governor of the Straits Settlements urged that no distinction should be drawn as regards protection in China between persons of Chinese descent born in the Malay States and those born in the Straits Settlements. It was then held that the opinion of the Law Officers in regard to subjects of the native States of India applied equally to subjects of the Malay States, and instructions were therefore issued that in China subjects of those States should be treated in a similar manner as British subjects. In consequence of this decision protection certificates were henceforth issued to persons of Chinese descent born in the Malay States; but subsequently this decision appears to have been overlooked and the General Consular Instructions issued in 1921 contained a direction that \"natives of the Malay States may not at present receive British protection in China.” Considerable confusion was thus caused, but eventually the General Instructions were amended in the sense of permitting subjects of the Malay States to receive protection in China as British protected persons.\n\nGuillemard, April 14, 1922. [T7455/598/310.] Mr. Clive, No. 652, October 24, 1922. [T14169/598/310.] To Sir R. Macleay, No. 274. April 24, 1923. [T4182/4182/350.] Sir R. Macleay, No. 419, July 30, 1923. [T9591/4182/350.] Foreign Office circular, November 28, 1923. [T11174/4182/350.] Consul Pitzipios, October 8, 1914. \"China,\" No. 87983. Sir J. Jordan, No. 267, October 19, 1915. \"China,\" No. 173089.\n\n* See, for example, lists forwarded by His Majesty's consul at Swatow in 1914, which contain the names of three Anglo-Chinese naturalised in various Colonies and registered as British protected persons. The error appears to have escaped attention.\n\n(C.) It was decided that the wives and widows of Anglo-Chinese registered as British subjects should also be registered and protected in China, though they themselves might not have been born within the British Dominions. Consul Bristowe, April 18, 1923. [T7228/4182/350.] To Sir R. Macleay, No. 793, October 6, 1923. [T9895/4182/350.]\n\n(D.) It was decided that the children born in China of Chinese British subjects born in His Majesty's Dominions were not entitled to be registered as British subjects, and that, in consequence, their births should not be registered at the British consulate. Mr. Clive, No. 509, August 10, 1922. [T11821/593/310.]\n\n2. The instructions of 1904, referred to on page 3, extending British registration and protection to Anglo-Chinese of the first generation, effected a fundamental change in the policy pursued up to that time by His Majesty's Government. This change of policy has been responsible for acute and constantly growing friction with the Chinese authorities during the past twenty years. In order to understand how the present situation has arisen, it is necessary to examine the history of the whole question from the year 1865 onwards.\n\nTo Sir R. Macleay, No. 846, May 16, 1923. [T5114/4182/350.] To Sir R. Macleay, No. 798, October 6, 1923. [T9895/4182/350.]\n\n3. Protection of Anglo-Chinese appears to have commenced soon after the signing of the Treaty of Nanking, by which British subjects in China were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities and acquired various other immunities and privileges. In the year 1865 Lord Clarendon, No. 25, December 11, 1865, addressed a despatch to His Majesty's Minister in Peking on the subject of the extradition from China (for which no provision had been made in the treaties) of criminals who had fled from Hong Kong to Chinese territory. He referred particularly to the case of the Chinese subjects of the British Crown who had become British subjects by the cession of Hong Kong. It was not clear whether the Chinese authorities recognised their character as British subjects or whether they did not claim still to regard them as amenable to Chinese jurisdiction when apprehended for crimes committed in Hong Kong. The British Minister was therefore instructed to inform the Chinese Government that Chinese who had their permanent domicile in Hong Kong at the time of the cession in 1842 had become in fact British subjects, and likewise any children born to them before or after the cession. But children born in Hong Kong of Chinese parents, subjects of the Emperor, though regarded generally as British subjects by reason of their birth, could not be held to be British subjects against the Chinese Government.\n\n4. It appears that on receipt of Lord Clarendon's instructions Sir R. Alcock, then British Minister in Peking, took the following action:\n\n(1.) On the 11th April, 1866, he wrote to Prince Kung as follows: Chinese residents remaining in Hong Kong after its cession to the British Crown are British subjects; so are their children or the children of any that have since settled in Hong Kong. The same rule applies to the families of Chinese emigrants who have settled in the Straits Settlements.\n\nThis, it will be noted, was the exact contrary to the ruling laid down by Lord Clarendon, but as the correspondence only reached the Foreign Office by a circuitous route in the form of an enclosure to a Colonial Office despatch of a year later, the error appears to have escaped attention.\n\n(2.) On the 9th June, 1866, he issued a circular to British consuls, informing them that Prince Kung had issued instructions to the local authorities in China, that when a person apparently\n\nMarch 23, 1867.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "17\n\nconsulate. The rule that this did not apply to those whose master nationality was Chinese was overlooked (see paragraph 18), and it was believed that all Anglo-Chinese of the first generation had been registered as British subjects both before and after 1904; that those registered before 1904 were not entitled to protection in China, while those registered after May 7, 1904 were entitled to protection if provided with certificates in the form prescribed by the 1904 instructions. This gave rise to yet another misconception, namely, that the function of the 1904 certificate was to provide more reliable evidence of British nationality than the ordinary Hong Kong birth certificate; whereas, in fact, it had been adopted as the best substitute obtainable of proof of the animus manendi, which is a constituent element of domicile. The net result, therefore, of the Governor's complaint was that fresh instructions were issued to His Majesty's consuls in China, that before registering any Anglo-Chinese as a British subject they must insist on better evidence than a birth certificate, for example, a Hong Kong British-born certificate (this was the certificate prescribed by the 1904 instructions), a British passport in proper order, something of a similar nature.\" The effect of these instructions was to give official countenance to the belief that all Anglo-Chinese of the first generation were entitled to registration and protection in China, provided only that they would produce satisfactory evidence of birth within the King's Dominions. In 1922, however, consuls were instructed, as explained in the following paragraph, to follow strictly the instructions in \"Major's Compendium\"; but this compendium, which was published in 1915, just missed including the circular of the 28th September of that year. By this curious chance the instructions of 1915 were virtually abrogated.\n\nPage 114\n\nTo Colonial Office, January 25, 1915. [T 87973.]\n\nGovernor Sir F. May to Sir J. Jordan, June 17, Circular to Consuls, No. 47, September 28, 1915. Enclosure in Sir J. Jordan, No. 267, October 18, 1915.\n\nPage 6\n\nor\n\n1915. [T 156075.]\n\n27.\n\nIn 1921 His Majesty's consul-general at Canton once more drew attention to the evils and dangers of the situation, and urged, as Sir J. Jordan had urged in 1910, that we should immediately abandon our claim to protect Anglo-Chinese of the first generation. He pointed out that the old principle that all Chinese by blood remained Chinese had always been and was still stubbornly upheld; that in view of the many fraudulent registrations and the frequency with which protection was made use of for illegal purposes, the contention of the Chinese Government was in most instances not without justification; and that consuls were thus reduced to an undesirable, if not ridiculous, state of impotency. Anglo-Chinese concealing their British status and posing as Chinese had mixed themselves up in political plots and schemes, but when they put their money on the wrong horse and had all their property confiscated by the winner, claims for redress put forward by the consul were contemptuously rejected. He pointed out that the Chinese authorities would in no case recognise our right to protect Anglo-Chinese of the first generation, and that it would be difficult to induce them to allow us to protect those of the second generation; it would be necessary for them to become unequivocally British subjects, accepting the disadvantages under treaty attendant on British nationality; and lists would have to be furnished annually to the Chinese authorities at the place where consular registration was effected.\n\nThe immediate occasion of this despatch was the occurrence of a dispute of more than usual violence with the Chinese authorities at Canton over the case of a Hong Kong-born British subject (see Appendix I, case No. 24).\n\n28. The disputes with the Chinese authorities had been growing more frequent and more acrimonious, but Chinese affairs had been overshadowed by the Great War. Consequently, when Mr. Jamieson's despatch brought the question of the protection of Anglo-Chinese once more under review it had laid dormant for several years. No steps had been taken to deal with it or to elucidate the facts except that the effect of the instructions issued in 1904 had been summarised in a Compendium of Instructions issued to consuls in 1915. This summary, which is reproduced in paragraph 1, was, therefore, easily accessible, but the misconceptions as to their scope and intention still persisted. Thus, Sir B. Alston supposed that these instructions were intended to restrict within narrow limits the classes of Anglo-Chinese who could be admitted to British protection in China, when, in fact, their intention, and, in still greater degree, their effect, had\n\nPage 16827", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512634, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "119\n\n22\n\non the jus sanguinis.” The earliest of these statutes were the Acts of 1730 and 1772. The Act of 1914, which repealed the earlier British Nationality Acts, restricted the acceptation of the jus sanguinis. The children born of a British father in a foreign country were no longer to be natural born British subjects unless their father had been born on British soil.\n\nF\n\nThe Act of 1922, swinging to the other extreme, adopts the jus sanguinis as a principal basis of British nationality. The additional paragraph which is inserted in the Act of 1914 has the effect of enabling British nationality to be maintained through successive generations by complying simply with the conditions of registration at a consulate at birth and renewal of the registration on the child attaining his majority. Provided the father of the child is a British subject, he can pass on his nationality to his children by registering the birth at a British consulate within one year.\n\nWestlake, \"International Law,\" 7th Edition, pp. 368, 369,\n\nA further important proviso is that if the child is a subject or a citizen of a foreign country under the law of which he can, at the time of asserting his British nationality, divest himself of the nationality of that foreign country by making a declaration of alienage or otherwise, he must divest himself of that nationality accordingly.\n\nThe Chinese law, on the other hand, continues Chinese nationality to the descendants of Chinese for an infinite number of generations, irrespective of whether the persons concerned may have obtained a different nationality or whether they have retained any connection with China. This is a great contrast to the careful provisions of the English statute, but in judging of its reasonableness or otherwise, it is necessary to take into consideration the factor of extra-territoriality. China has never, at any rate since foreign intercourse began, denied the right of Chinese to become subjects or citizens of a foreign State. She has, however, consistently maintained that the original allegiance of such individuals revives immediately they set foot on Chinese soil. For China, it is far more a question of jurisdiction than of nationality, and it is difficult to deny that she has justice on her side in claiming that persons who are Chinese by race, habits, and instincts, and who are, therefore, indistinguishable from the native population, should not evade the jurisdiction of the Chinese courts by claiming a foreign nationality on Chinese soil. It is, of course, possible by the letter of the law that China might claim as a Chinese citizen one who had been absent so many generations from China as to have entirely lost his Chinese character. The Foreign Office archives, however, contain no record of any such case in the past, and if any such occur in the future, it may safely be reserved for special negotiation.\n\nThe factor of extra-territoriality, it may be noted, also exercises a disturbing influence on the English Law of Nationality. The Act of 1922, referred to above, continues British nationality automatically to the descendants of Englishmen for an infinite number of generations born in China, exactly as Chinese nationality descends through any number of generations born abroad—thereby providing Chinese politicians with an argument in debate of which they are not slow to make full use.\n\n35. It was generally recognised that the withdrawal from Chinese jurisdiction of persons who were indistinguishable from the native population was a legitimate grievance, but, unfortunately, our efforts to remedy it were futile. The Costume Regulation was nominally in force from 1868 to 1904. A Chinese had but to wear foreign boots and conceal his queue under a foreign straw hat; he could then get registered as a British subject and revert to Chinese costume next day. The regulation was so obviously futile that it was a dead letter almost from the day it was promulgated. When in 1904, the door was opened to all Chinese born on British soil, it was hoped to remedy the grievance by an elaborate system of certificates and by confining protection strictly to those who were registered and limiting protection to acts subsequent to registration. But this plan, also, was foredoomed to failure. Once it was laid down that a British subject was entitled to protection despite his second nationality, a consul was bound to protect him whether registered or not. If such an individual were arrested by the Chinese authorities, a consul could not stop to enquire\n\n23\n\nwhether he had complied with all the prescribed formalities when delay might endanger his life. The consul must interfere energetically, and at once or not at all. Hence arose the rule that has caused so much friction, that on merely claiming British nationality, a man must be released pending reference to the consul. The one expedient, which was found so effective by the Dutch, namely, lists of registered subjects agreed upon between the local authorities and the consul, was tried in Sinkiang with marked success, but not elsewhere.\n\nAnother expedient that was not only futile but gave rise to grave difficulties was that of withdrawing protection in cases where protection had been abused. If a Chinese is registered as a British subject, he may buy land and have his title-deed registered in the British consulate. He may be refused assistance, but his title-deed must be upheld, or all British title-deeds become insecure. He may hoist the British flag on a vessel on the inland waters, and the British navy must protect the vessel, though it may have been engaged in smuggling or even piracy. The consul may refuse to protect him, but he must take jurisdiction over him, for if the Chinese are allowed to take jurisdiction over him, then the liberties of all British subjects are endangered. In an extra-territorial country, a man must be under the jurisdiction of one court only. If he is tried in the British court one day and the Chinese court another, the confusion that results is an offence against the community, who are entitled to know, when dealing with a man, in what court they may seek redress. In an extra-territorial country, recognition, registration, protection, and jurisdiction must be co-extensive. The utmost that a consul who wishes to withdraw protection can do is to refuse to take up a case that is brought to him for his assistance; but that is no more than what he frequently is compelled to do in the case even of the most respectable of his nationals who may be ignorant of their exact treaty rights.\n\nE\n\n36. The question arises, what course His Majesty's Government should now follow. It seems clear that negotiations are not possible, for even if there were a Chinese Government with whom we could negotiate, we should be met at the outset with a simple demand that we should cease violating international law. The treaty alteration proposals which His Majesty's Government made in January 1927 contained an offer to recognise a reasonable Chinese nationality law.\" These proposals were expressly framed so that they might be carried out by unilateral action by us alone and without any negotiations. The obvious course would, therefore, appear to be to admit that the present Chinese nationality law is not unreasonable—which, in fact, would seem to be the case—and forthwith take steps to implement our offer without further parley. It would only be necessary to safeguard, so far as it lies in our power to do so, the interests of those Anglo-Chinese at present residing in China under British protection. If this policy is approved in principle, the following steps would appear to be necessary:—\n\n(1.) His Majesty's consuls in China should be instructed in future to register as British subjects only those who have already been registered. Any who have not been registered during the past, say, two years, should not be registered again.\n\n(2.) His Majesty's consuls should also notify all Anglo-Chinese that, though registered as British subjects, they are also, by Chinese law, Chinese subjects; that it is proposed at some future time to establish a system of communicating to the Chinese authorities lists of all Chinese subjects who also possess British nationality and are registered as British subjects, and that if any Anglo-Chinese desire, prior to the establishment of this system, to cease to be registered as British subjects, their registration will, on due application, be cancelled.\n\n(3.) The issue of protection certificates by Colonial Governments should cease entirely forthwith; any certificate of birth, passport, or other similar document, issued to individuals of Chinese race, should bear an endorsement in the English and Chinese\n\n120", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928", "content_text": "30.161.\n\nCopies to:- Peking No.59.\n\n7.0. Bo.40.\n\n74\n\nH.B.M.Consulate General.\n\nCanton.\n\nApril 26th, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my despatch No.140 of the 15th April I have the honour to enclose a translation of a further letter from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs regarding the appointment of Mr. Kong Jia-lai (1) as superintendent of the Chinese telegraph office in Hongkong. It requests a definite reply as to whether or not he is to be allowed to take up this post.\n\nIn the ordinary course of events, I could have replied referring to my previous communication of March 30th, and stating that Mr. Kong could take up his post as soon as he was appointed Commercial Agent in the terms stipulated and not otherwise, but in view of the recent telegrams from His Majesty's Minister objecting to a Canton nominee of any sort, I do not know what to say.\n\n3. Prior to writing me the enclosed letter, Mr. Cha brought up the subject in conversation and went over all the old arguments why Canton should have the appointment. I replied at length that the question was a difficult one for us owing to our interests in North China; that Your Excellency had tried to meet Canton's wishes by a compromise; that your proposal had been rejected and that so far as I was aware there was nothing further to be done in the matter for the time being. Mr. Chu then said that the Canton Government would not agree to change the title of the post and that, if such was the case, he would like to have from you a definite refusal to allow Canton to make the appointment in the old terms, so that he could show Marshal Li that there was nothing further to be done. I said that he had better make his request in writing, when I would forward it to His Excellency,\n\nThe Governor,\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513162, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 1.\n\nNo. 161\n\nCopies to - Peking No. 59.\n\nF.O. No. 40.\n\nH.B.M. Consulate General,\n\nCanton,\n\nApril, 26th, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\n78\n\nWith reference to my despatch No. 140 of the 13th April, I have the honour to enclose a translation of a further letter from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs regarding the appointment of Mr. Kong Siu-lui as Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph office in Hong Kong. It requests a definite reply as to whether or not he is to be allowed to take up this post.\n\n2. In the ordinary course of events, I should have replied referring to my previous communication of March 30th, and stating that Mr. Kong could take up his post as soon as he was appointed Commercial Agent in the terms stipulated and not otherwise, but in view of the recent telegram from His Majesty's Minister objecting to a Canton nominee of any sort, I do not know what to say.\n\n3. Prior to writing me the enclosed letter, Mr. Chu brought up the subject in conversation and went over all the old arguments why Canton should have the appointment. I replied at length that the question was a difficult one for us owing to our interests in North China; that Your Excellency had tried to meet Canton's wishes by a compromise; that your proposal had been rejected, and that so", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516469, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "content_text": "36 - 6- 25 rather the substitution of the agitators for those already employed than an increase of pay.\n\n9. Marshal Li Tsung-jen (referred to in paragraph 2 of Sir Cecil Clementi's secret despatch of the 23rd of August, 1929) still remains in Hong Kong. Some time ago he announced his intention of proceeding to the United States of America and went so far as to provide photographs and to fill in forms of application for a landing certificate. When requested however to call at the United States Consulate-General in Hong Kong to put the matter through he declined to do so and there can be no doubt that he has no intention of leaving Hong Kong except under pressure. I have accordingly caused a letter to be delivered to him calling upon him to leave the Colony within fourteen days and failing compliance I feel that I have no option but to take action under Section 3(2) of Ordinance No.25 of 1917.\n\nFor some time now the Canton Government through His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General has been pressing this course upon us, and the rumours now prevalent that Marshal Li has thrown in his lot with Wong Tsing-wai and the \"Reorganisation party\" make it still more desirable that he should be removed further from the scene of their activities especially as members of this clique are now actually engaged in an armed attack on the Central Government.\n\nGeneral Tsui King-tong left the Colony some time ago for Japan while Ch'an Kung-pok who was alleged to be in Hong Kong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "content_text": "79\n\n(af opium or otherwise) that the onus is thrown on the Shipping Companies to provide a remedy or submit to search by such organisations as Opium Suppression Bureau and other similarly constituted Chinese bodies.\n\nIn this connection it is pertinent to the issues involved to state that about June 1928 Kr. J.V. Maze, then Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai, furnished Opium Suppression Bureau parties with his official card requesting that they be permitted to search vessels for opium and frankly stated that he was not prepared to risk the lives of Customs employees in this work as the Customs service was revenue and not preventive.\n\nAppeal to H.B.M. Consul General at Shanghai brought forth the following from the Consulate dated July 11th 1928 addressed to us:-\n\n\"I am directed by H.M. Consul General to instruct Masters of British vessels in China waters that only the Chinese Maritime Customs Authorities are permitted to board British ships in search of opium and other contraband. I shall be glad if you will convey this reminder to masters concerned.\"\n\n(sgd.) K. Hilton, Vice Consul.\n\nWe accordingly notified all our masters who proceeded to act on the Consular instructions thus given.\n\nAt Hankow, however, the British Consul General there declined to accept the ruling given by the Shanghai Consul General as he had already agreed to allow Anti-Opium officials to search British vessels.\n\nOur Agents' letter to the Hankow Consul General giving all details of this was dated Hankow August 21st 1928 and a letter from us to your goodself on the same subject...\n\nPage 80\nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "content_text": "## POST.\nWEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929\n\ncontinued unrestricted import and export of silver dollars to correct the vagaries of the tael, and the free circulation and acceptance of silver dollars, and in this the Government might assist by withdrawing its discouragement to payments to the Treasury in the Colony's legal tender.\n\nAn increase in notes accompanied by free circulation of dollars interchangeable into notes and general observation of the fact that silver dollars are legal tender in this Colony would appear to be effective almost at once in bringing down the Hongkong paper dollar to its true value.\n\nIt is desirable to retain bank-notes, and its temporary increase might be facilitated to the issuing Banks by the grant of less onerous conditions for an excess of the present amount, subject to a gradual reduction to a figure proved by experience to be sufficient for the Colony's requirements.\n\nThis is by no means an exhaustive review of the situation, but sufficient facts have been exposed to warrant an examination of the problem by the Government. Perhaps one of our unofficial members of the Council will take the matter in hand and move for a Commission to explore the matter in all its aspects, or preferably a currency expert might be engaged to report thereon.\n\nYears ago a situation detrimental to the interest of the Colony in reference to small coins was corrected by the action of the Government, and it now lies again with the Government to take such steps as may be necessary to remove the handicap which now exists to the trade of Hongkong.—Yours, etc.,\n\nOBSERVER.\nHongkong, July 16th, 1929.\n\n### Flowers, and Funerals.\n\nSir, May I express my agreement with Captain Baylis' admirable letter in your issue of today? On the occasions of these melancholy and unfortunately not uncommon processions to the cemetery, we cannot be but struck by the deplorable waste of money that has been expended in wreaths of fast withering flowers.\n\nPerhaps but comparatively few of us appreciate the splendid work that charities such as the Hongkong and kindred societies are doing. Their work is always unobtrusive, perhaps too unobtrusive, but every penny received by them is expended in lightening the burden of someone to whom the world has not been overkind.\n\nThe causes for the anomaly of a \"promise\" being superior in value to the \"performance\" in this issue are undoubtedly many, but the principal cause would appear to be the inadequate supply of bank notes for \"trade\" purposes; the value of bank notes emitted is returned in millions, but what proportion of these millions is in trade circulation is unknown, nor is the total ascertainable of the huge sum hoarded by the Chinese in South China as a protective measure against the insecure and mercurial paper of their own Banks, and their coin of varying and doubtful values.\n\nThis is a wonderful tribute to the note-issuing institutions of Hongkong, but they are possibly not performing fully the service intended by the Ordinances authorising their respective note issues in that an important percentage of such notes (larger than most people think) is being utilised to a purpose foreign to facilitation of trade by its permanent withdrawal into the Chinese equivalent of the French peasant's stocking.\n\nThis unexpected use of bank-notes has kept Hongkong currency at an over silver parity, and a position in taels, originally contracted for trade requirements which did not eventuate and since carried on speculatively, has intensified the difficulty by keeping up or even increasing the premium.\n\nSir, I think many of your readers will thoroughly endorse all that Mr. Baylis has said, re Flowers and Funerals. I hope something will be done to have stop this habit (for has it not become that?) of sending stacks of wreaths, ordered from Flower Street, by the office boy to the funeral of everyone of note who dies here.\n\nOld custom dies hard, but if instead of the wreath the cost of it could be sent to Captain Baylis for distribution, what an amount of real suffering would be alleviated. Tomorrow, from entirely selfish motives, I am going to make a start. I am informing those few, alas! very few persons who in the event of my decease would be likely to send a wreath, to forward $2.50 instead to Captain Baylis, for though I can think of little good I have done by living, I will then in my last hours have the consolation that I have endeavoured to accomplish some little good by dying.—Yours, etc.,\n\nCORONA.\n\n### That Shanghai Notice.\n\nSir, I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 5, addressed to the Chairman of Council, relative to an enquiry by the Editor of Dearborn Publishing Company as to whether the expression \"No dogs or Chinese admitted\" appears on any public signboard in Shanghai.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to inform you that no such notices are posted in any parks or in any of the places under the Council's jurisdiction, furthermore, careful investigation reveals the fact that such a notice has never appeared in the International Settlement.\n\nFor your information, I have the pleasure in handing you herewith three photographic reproductions of notices posted in the various parks and gardens. The Council would, accordingly, greatly appreciate it, if when replying to the Dearborn Publishing Company, you would emphatically point out that such statements as these are entirely false, unfounded and unwarrantable and that their publication is strongly objected to by the Council and the Foreign Community at Shanghai.—I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\n(Sgd.) E. S. B. ROWE, Secretary.\n\nAttached to these letters are facsimiles of the Regulations posted outside the Public and Reserve Gardens, Jessfield Park, and Hongkew Park, notes, a natural and normal consequence of weakness in the sterling rate in Shanghai vis-a-vis a relatively unmovable rate in Hongkong.\n\nIn other words, the premium of Hongkong notes is primarily due to the demand therefor exceeding the supply, and in a secondary manner to the speculation in taels.\n\nThere are undoubtedly other very many causes, but whatever they may be, the fact remains that a departure of a currency from its parity, whether a rise or fall from its basis of value, cannot react otherwise than detrimentally to trade.\n\nThe question is full of intricacies, and a satisfactory solution even more so, but a remedy might be found in an increase in the issue of bank notes, and placing a curb on the speculation in taels. The latter might be reached without great difficulty by agreement between the Banks themselves but, for obvious reasons, it cannot be effective unless accompanied by drastic measures to meet the trade requirements of Hongkong in respect of banknotes.\n\nNeither will an increase by itself in the issue of Bank notes remedy the situation unless accompanied by a certainty of convertibility.\n\n### Yunnan Fighting.\n\nTerrible Havoc Caused in Yunnanfu.\n\nPeking, July 16. Delayed messages from Yunnanfu paint a lurid picture of street fighting in that city, after a powder magazine explosion, which wrecked large areas of the city, including the French and British Consulates.\n\nThe explosion occurred on July 11. The British Consulate was mostly demolished, with most of its contents entirely destroyed. The Consul, Kirke, was injured, but not seriously.\n\nIt appears that troops of Generals Ho and Chang invaded Yunnan from Kweichow, marched on Yunnanfu, where a weak defending force failed to beat off the attack. The invaders got into the city, and there was much fighting in the streets, followed by the explosion of the powder magazine. There are further details yet to come.—Reuter.\n\n[An exclusive cable to S.C.M. Post last week gave facts of the explosion, and its results.]\n\n### The Colonies.\n\nAppointment of Mr. Hartshorn Foreshadowed.\n\nLondon, June 2. The Times to-day features an article by its Parliamentary correspondent, forecasting that on the conclusion of the Simon Commission's work Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, M.P., will be invited to Office and the Colonial Office separated from the Dominions Office, when the latter will be definitely separated.\n\nLord Passfield will continue to act as Secretary of State for Dominions and Mr. Hartshorn take charge of the Colonial Branch.\n\nM. F. KE, Hon. Secretary, Association, Hongkong, made a Statement.\n\n### PUBLIC AND RESERVE GARDENS REGULATIONS\n\n| Rule | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | The Gardens are reserved for the Foreign Community. |\n| 2. | The Gardens are opened to the public from 6 a.m. and be closed half an hour after sunset. |\n| 3. | No persons are admitted unless respectably dressed. |\n| 4. | Dogs and bicycles are not admitted. |\n| 5. | Perambulators must be confined to the paths. |\n| 6. | Birdnesting, plucking flowers, climbing trees or damaging trees, shrubs, or grass is strictly prohibited: visitors and others in charge of children are requested to aid in preventing such mischief. |\n| 7. | No person is allowed within the band stand enclosure. |\n| 8. | Amahs in charge of children are not permitted to occupy seats and chairs during band performances. |\n| 9. | Children unaccompanied by foreigners are not allowed in Reserve Garden. |\n| 10. | The Police have instructions to enforce these regulations. |\n\nBy Order,\nN. O. LIDDELL,\nSecretary.\n\nShanghai, September 13, 1917.\n\n### PEAK RESIDENT.\n\nSir,—With reference to the claim of your correspondent \"Truth-seeker\" to have seen in 1916 at the entrance to the Bund Gardens at Shanghai a notice reading \"Dogs and Chinese are not admitted,\" it seems desirable to publish once more the official repudiation, and I therefore enclose a copy of an official statement on the subject.\n\nIt is surely quite simple for the relatives to insert the words \"No flowers by request,\" and the custom would die out.—Yours, etc.,\n\nPEAK RESIDENT.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523462, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-4 China inland water- river and coastal trade- smuggling by British ships 12-12-1929 - 24-3-1930", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-522-4 China inland water- river and coastal trade- smuggling by British ships 12-12-1929 - 24-3-1930", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2\n\nCOFY\n\nJardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.,\n\nSir,\n\n27\n\nShanghai, February 9th, 1930.\n\nWe are in receipt of your lengthy despatch dated the 22nd ulto which reached us on the 1st instant, the subject matter being the carriage of Opium and \"Pidgin cargo\" on British ships engaged in trade on the upper reaches of the Yangtsze and setting forth H.M. Minister's view that while he would be reluctant to depart from the principle that British Ships are immune from search except by officials of the Maritime Customs H.M. Government may be forced to reconsider the policy of immunity and their whole attitude as regards the searching of British ships by Chinese authorities if the complained of abuses are not stopped by drastic prevention on the part of the Shipping Companies themselves. Your despatch concludes with the request that we will inform you that steps we are actually taking to put a stop to the carrying of opium and other unmanifested cargo on our vessels.\n\nWe further note from the body of your despatch under reply that it is because the Chinese Maritime Customs are understaffed and hence unable to carry out the duties which properly pertain to the searching for and seizing illicit shipments (of opium or otherwise) that the onus is thrown on the Shipping Companies to provide a remedy or submit to search by such organizations as Opium Suppression Bureau and other similarly constituted Chinese bodies.\n\nIn this connection it is pertinent to the issues involved to state that about June 1928 Mr. F.W. Maze, then Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai, furnished Opium Suppression Bureau parties with his official card requesting that they be permitted to search vessels for opium and frankly stated that he was not prepared to risk the lives of Customs employees in this work as the Customs service was revenue and not preventative. Appeal to H.B.M. Consul General at Shanghai brought forth the following from the Consulate dated July 11th, 1928 addressed to us:-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-4 China inland water- river and coastal trade- smuggling by British ships 12-12-1929 - 24-3-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-525-5 Colfix road surfacing materials 21-2-1930 - 26-5-1930", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-525-5 Colfix road surfacing materials 21-2-1930 - 26-5-1930", "content_text": "better/\n\nmaterial is put on the market. The roads so far treated with \"COLFIX\" are in an excellent condition, and apparently will not need repairs for some time.\n\nTo the incoming Committee we recommend the early execution of the following work:\n\nthat Oxford Road, Fergusson Road, and the Eastern section of the Broadway, be resurfaced with \"COLFIX\" at as early a date as possible.\n\nEXTRACT OF SHANGHAI'S LETTER NO.158 OF 31ST MAY 1929.\n\nIn the course of conversation with Mr. Instone of the Consulate, we enquired after the \"COLFIX GROUT\" at Nagasaki. He informed us that the material is doing its job very satisfactorily.\n\nEXTRACT OF MANILA'S LETTER NO.63 OF 6TH JUNE 1929.\n\nOn the 4th instant I got in touch with Mr. Clark and accompanied him to the small section of road which was laid at the Manila Gas Corporation on 9th September 1927. Mr. Clark was very pleased with the small section of road laid and he advised me that he would go into the matter and see if it was not possible to lay a larger section on one of their roads in the very near future, to give him an actual test under heavy traffic.\n\n:-:\n\n66", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-5 Colfix road surfacing materials 21-2-1930 - 26-5-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529617, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "content_text": "## Governor Sir A. Young, September 25, 1912. (Confidential Print 11426, No. 18.) To Colonial Office, December 20, tial Print 11426, No. 19.) Governor Sir L. N. Guillemard, April 4\n\ninstructions were cancelled, but nothing was said about naturalisation. Thereafter, it was only by a process of historical research that a consul could ascertain that such individuals should not be registered or protected. In consequence, cases occasionally occurred where colonially naturalised Anglo-Chinese were registered as British subjects or as British protected persons.* A similar case having occurred in Foochow in 1921 (see `Appendix I, No. 25`, case of Yeoh Hong Pin), it was again definitely laid down that naturalised British subjects of Chinese descent should not be registered unless they could show that they had divested themselves of their Chinese nationality with the consent of the Chinese Government.\n\n**(B) Natives of the Malay States**\n\nA Foreign Office circular of the 12th July, 1904, specifically laid down that subjects of the Malay States are not regarded as British protected persons outside the limits of the Federated Malay States. Consequently, when the 1904 instructions were issued by Sir E. Satow, persons of Chinese descent born in the Malay States were not included among the classes of Anglo-Chinese entitled to registration and protection in China. About the same time the status of the subjects of the native States of India came under consideration, and the Law Officers on the 17th February, 1905, gave the following opinion:\n\n\"When the whole control of foreign relations has been assumed by His Majesty's Government it appears to us that the duty of protection followed. What measure of protection can be given must depend upon the extent of the jurisdiction enjoyed by His Majesty's Government in the country where protection is desired. If that jurisdiction is confined to those who are, in the strict technical sense of our municipal law, British subjects, it cannot be exercised in respect of protected persons.\"\n\nThis opinion did not deal with the question of dual nationality. It was communicated to His Majesty's representatives abroad, but it was not understood that it altered in any way the ruling as to subjects of the Malay States laid down in the previous circular of the 12th July, 1904, to which no reference was made. In 1912 the Governor of the Straits Settlements urged that no distinction should be drawn as regards protection in China between persons of Chinese descent born in the Malay States and those born in the Straits Settlements. It was then held that the opinion of the Law Officers in regard to subjects of the native States of India applied equally to subjects of the Malay States, and instructions were therefore issued that in China subjects of those States should be treated in a similar manner as British subjects. In consequence of this decision protection certificates were henceforth issued to persons of Chinese descent born in the Malay States; but subsequently this decision appears to have been overlooked and the General Consular Instructions issued in 1921 contained a direction that \"natives of the Malay States may not at present receive British protection in China.\" Considerable confusion was thus caused, but eventually the General Instructions were amended in the sense of permitting subjects of the Malay States to receive protection in China as British protected persons.\n\n`[T 7455/598/310]` Mr. Clive, No. 652, October 24, 1922, `[T 14169/598/310]`\nTo Sir R. Macleay, No. 274, April 24, 1923. `[T 4182/+182/850]`\nSir R. Macleay, No. 419, July 30, 1923. `[T 9591/4182/860]`\nForeign Office circular, November 28, 1928. `[T 11174/4182/350]`\nConsul Pitzipios, October 8, 1914. \"China,\" No. 87983.\nSir J. Jordan, No. 267, October 18, 1915 \"China.\" No. 173089.\n\n*See, for example, lists forwarded by His Majesty's consul at Swatow in 1914, which contain the names of three Anglo-Chinese naturalised in various Colonies and registered as British protected persons. The error appears to have escaped attention.\n\n**(C)** It was decided that the wives and widows of Anglo-Chinese registered as British subjects should also be registered and protected in China, though they themselves might not have been born within the British Dominions. \n`[T 7228/4182/350]` To Sir R. Macleay, No. 793, October 6, 1923. `[T 9895/4182/850]`\n\n**(D)** It was decided that the children born in China of Chinese British subjects born in His Majesty's Dominions were not entitled to be registered as British subjects, and that, in consequence, their births should not be registered at the British consulate.\nMr. Clive, No. 509, August 10, 1922. `[T 11321/598/310]`\n\n2. The instructions of 1904, referred to on page 3, extending British registration and protection to Anglo-Chinese of the first generation, effected a fundamental change in the policy pursued up to that time by His Majesty's Government. This change of policy has been responsible for acute and constantly growing friction with the Chinese authorities during the past twenty years. In order to understand how the present situation has arisen, it is necessary to examine the history of the whole question from the year 1865 onwards.\n\nTo Sir R. Macleay, No. 346, May 16, 1923. `[T 5114/4182/350]`\nTo Sir R. Macleay, No. 793, October 6, 1923. `[T 9895/4182/350]`\n\n3. Protection of Anglo-Chinese appears to have commenced soon after the signing of the Treaty of Nanking, by which British subjects in China were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities and acquired various other immunities and privileges. In the year 1865 Lord Clarendon, No. 25, December 11, 1865, addressed a despatch to His Majesty's Minister in Peking on the subject of the extradition from China (for which no provision had been made in the treaties) of criminals who had fled from Hong Kong to Chinese territory. He referred particularly to the case of the Chinese subjects of the British Crown who had become British subjects by the cession of Hong Kong. It was not clear whether the Chinese authorities recognised their character as British subjects or whether they did not claim still to regard them as amenable to Chinese jurisdiction when apprehended for crimes committed in Hong Kong. The British Minister was therefore instructed to inform the Chinese Government that Chinese who had their permanent domicile in Hong Kong at the time of the cession in 1842 had become in fact British subjects, and likewise any children born to them before or after the cession. \"But children born in Hong Kong of Chinese parents, subjects of the Emperor, though regarded generally as British subjects by reason of their birth, could not be held to be British subjects against the Chinese Government.\"\n\n4. It appears that on receipt of Lord Clarendon's instructions Sir R. Alcock, then British Minister in Peking, took the following action:\n\n(1) On the 11th April, 1866, he wrote to Prince Kung as follows:\n\"Chinese residents remaining in Hong Kong after its cession to the British Crown are British subjects; so are their children or the children of any that have since settled in Hong Kong. The same rule applies to the families of Chinese emigrants who have settled in the Straits Settlements.\"\n\nThis, it will be noted, was the exact contrary to the ruling laid down by Lord Clarendon, but as the correspondence only reached the Foreign Office by a circuitous route in the form of an enclosure to a Colonial Office despatch of a year later, the error appears to have escaped attention.\n\n(2) On the 9th June, 1866, he issued a circular to British consuls, informing them that Prince Kung had issued instructions to the local authorities in China, that when a person apparently \n\nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "content_text": "## \n17 consulate. The rule that this did not apply to those whose master nationality was Chinese was overlooked (see paragraph 18), and it was believed that all Anglo-Chinese of the first generation had been registered as British subjects both before and after 1904; that those registered before 1904 were not entitled to protection in China, while those registered after May 7, 1904 were entitled to protection if provided with certificates in the form prescribed by the 1904 instructions. This gave rise to yet another misconception, namely, that the function of the 1904 certificate was to provide more reliable evidence of British nationality than the ordinary Hong Kong birth certificate; whereas, in fact, it had been adopted as the best substitute obtainable of proof of the *animus manendi*, which is a constituent element of domicile.\n\nThe net result, therefore, of the Governor's complaint was that fresh instructions were issued to His Majesty's consuls in China, that before registering any Anglo-Chinese as a British subject they must insist on better evidence than a birth certificate, for example, a Hong Kong British-born certificate (this was the certificate prescribed by the 1904 instructions), a British passport in proper order, or something of a similar nature. The effect of these instructions was to give official countenance to the belief that all Anglo-Chinese of the first generation were entitled to registration and protection in China, provided only that they would produce satisfactory evidence of birth within the King's Dominions.\n\nIn 1922, however, consuls were instructed, as explained in the following paragraph, to follow strictly the instructions in `Major's Compendium`; but this compendium, which was published in 1915, just missed including the circular of the 28th September of that year. By this curious chance, the instructions of 1915 were virtually abrogated.\n\n## \n27. In 1921, His Majesty's consul-general at Canton once more drew attention to the evils and dangers of the situation, and urged, as Sir J. Jordan had urged in 1910, that we should immediately abandon our claim to protect Anglo-Chinese of the first generation. He pointed out that the old principle that all Chinese by blood remained Chinese had always been and was still stubbornly upheld; that in view of the many fraudulent registrations and the frequency with which protection was made use of for illegal purposes, the contention of the Chinese Government was in most instances not without justification; and that consuls were thus reduced to an undesirable, if not ridiculous, state of impotency.\n\nAnglo-Chinese concealing their British status and posing as Chinese had mixed themselves up in political plots and schemes, but when they put their money on the wrong horse and had all their property confiscated by the winner, claims for redress put forward by the consul were contemptuously rejected. He pointed out that the Chinese authorities would in no case recognise our right to protect Anglo-Chinese of the first generation, and that it would be difficult to induce them to allow us to protect those of the second generation; it would be necessary for them to become unequivocally British subjects, accepting the disadvantages under treaty attendant on British nationality; and lists would have to be furnished annually to the Chinese authorities at the place where consular registration was effected.\n\nThe immediate occasion of this despatch was the occurrence of a dispute of more than usual violence with the Chinese authorities at Canton over the case of a Hong Kong-born British subject (see `Appendix I, case No. 24`).\n\n## \n28. The disputes with the Chinese authorities had been growing more frequent and more acrimonious, but Chinese affairs had been overshadowed by the Great War. Consequently, when Mr. Jamieson's despatch brought the question of the protection of Anglo-Chinese once more under review, it had laid dormant for several years. No steps had been taken to deal with it or to elucidate the facts, except that the effect of the instructions issued in 1904 had been summarised in a `Major's Compendium` of Instructions issued to consuls in 1915. This summary, which is reproduced in paragraph 1, was, therefore, easily accessible, but the misconceptions as to their scope and intention still persisted.\n\nThus, Sir B. Alston supposed that these instructions were intended to restrict within narrow limits the classes of Anglo-Chinese who could be admitted to British protection in China, when, in fact, their intention, and, in still greater degree, their effect, had...\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "content_text": "## 22\n\non the jus sanguinis.* The earliest of these statutes were the Acts of 1730 and 1772. The Act of 1914, which repealed the earlier British Nationality Acts, restricted the acceptation of the jus sanguinis. The children born of a British father in a foreign country were no longer to be natural born British subjects unless their father had been born on British soil.\n\nThe Act of 1922, swinging to the other extreme, adopts the jus sanguinis as a principal basis of British nationality. The additional paragraph which is inserted in the Act of 1914 has the effect of enabling British nationality to be maintained through successive generations by complying simply with the conditions of registration at a consulate at birth and renewal of the registration on the child attaining his majority. Provided the father of the child is a British subject, he can pass on his nationality to his children by registering the birth at a British consulate within one year. Westlake, \"Pri. Law,\" 7th Edition, pp. 368, 369.\n\nA further important proviso is that if the child is a subject or a citizen of a foreign country under the law of which he can, at the time of asserting his British nationality, divest himself of the nationality of that foreign country by making a declaration of alicnage or otherwise, he must divest himself of that nationality accordingly.\n\nThe Chinese law, on the other hand, continues Chinese nationality to the descendants of Chinese for an infinite number of generations, irrespective of whether the persons concerned may have obtained a different nationality or whether they have retained any connection with China. This is a great contrast to the careful provisions of the English statute, but in judging of its reasonableness or otherwise, it is necessary to take into consideration the factor of extra-territoriality. China has never, at any rate since foreign intercourse began, denied the right of Chinese to become subjects or citizens of a foreign State. She has, however, consistently maintained that the original allegiance of such individuals revives immediately they set foot on Chinese soil. For China, it is far more a question of jurisdiction than of nationality, and it is difficult to deny that she has justice on her side in claiming that persons who are Chinese by race, habits, and instincts, and who are, therefore, indistinguishable from the native population, should not evade the jurisdiction of the Chinese courts by claiming a foreign nationality on Chinese soil. It is, of course, possible by the letter of the law that China might claim as a Chinese citizen one who had been absent so many generations from China as to have entirely lost his Chinese character. The Foreign Office archives, however, contain no record of any such case in the past, and if any such occur in the future, it may safely be reserved for special negotiation.\n\nThe factor of extra-territoriality, it may be noted, also exercises a disturbing influence on the English Law of Nationality. The Act of 1922, referred to above, continues British nationality automatically to the descendants of Englishmen for an infinite number of generations born in China, exactly as Chinese nationality descends through any number of generations born abroad, thereby providing Chinese politicians with an argument in debate of which they are not slow to make full use.\n\n## 35\n\nIt was generally recognised that the withdrawal from Chinese jurisdiction of persons who were indistinguishable from the native population was a legitimate grievance, but, unfortunately, our efforts to remedy it were futile. The Costume Regulation was nominally in force from 1868 to 1904. A Chinese had but to wear foreign boots and conceal his queue under a foreign straw hat; he could then get registered as a British subject and revert to Chinese costume next day. The regulation was so obviously futile that it was a dead letter almost from the day it was promulgated. When in 1904 the door was opened to all Chinese born on British soil, it was hoped to remedy the grievance by an elaborate system of certificates and by confining protection strictly to those who were registered and limiting protection to acts subsequent to registration. But this plan, also, was foredoomed to failure. Once it was laid down that a British subject was entitled to protection despite his second nationality, a consul was bound to protect him whether registered or not. If such an individual were arrested by the Chinese authorities, a consul could not stop to enquire whether he had complied with all the prescribed formalities when delay might endanger his life. The consul must interfere energetically, and at once or not at all. Hence arose the rule that has caused so much friction, that on merely claiming British nationality, a man must be released pending reference to the consul. The one expedient, which was found so effective by the Dutch, namely, lists of registered subjects agreed upon between the local authorities and the consul, was tried in Sinkiang with marked success, but not elsewhere.\n\nAnother expedient that was not only futile but gave rise to grave difficulties was that of withdrawing protection in cases where protection had been abused. If a Chinese is registered as a British subject, he may buy land and have his title-deed registered in the British consulate. He may be refused assistance, but his title-deed must be upheld, or all British title-deeds become insecure. He may hoist the British flag on a vessel on the inland waters, and the British navy must protect the vessel, though it may have been engaged in smuggling or even piracy. The consul may refuse to protect him, but he must take jurisdiction over him, for if the Chinese are allowed to take jurisdiction over him, then the liberties of all British subjects are endangered. In an extra-territorial country, a man must be under the jurisdiction of one court only. If he is tried in the British court one day and the Chinese court another, the confusion that results is an offence against the community, who are entitled to know, when dealing with a man, in what court they may seek redress. In an extra-territorial country, recognition, registration, protection, and jurisdiction must be co-extensive. The utmost that a consul who wishes to withdraw protection can do is to refuse to take up a case that is brought to him for his assistance; but that is no more than what he frequently is compelled to do in the case even of the most respectable of his nationals who may be ignorant of their exact treaty rights.\n\n## 36\n\nThe question arises, what course His Majesty's Government should now follow. It seems clear that negotiations are not possible, for even if there were a Chinese Government with whom we could negotiate, we should be met at the outset with a simple demand that we should cease violating international law. The treaty alteration proposals which His Majesty's Government made in January 1927 contained an offer to recognise a reasonable Chinese nationality law. These proposals were expressly framed so that they might be carried out by unilateral action by us alone and without any negotiations. The obvious course would, therefore, appear to be to admit that the present Chinese nationality law is not unreasonable—which, in fact, would seem to be the case—and forthwith take steps to implement our offer without further parley. It would only be necessary to safeguard, so far as it lies in our power to do so, the interests of those Anglo-Chinese at present residing in China under British protection. If this policy is approved in principle, the following steps would appear to be necessary:\n\n(1) His Majesty's consuls in China should be instructed in future to register as British subjects only those who have already been registered. Any who have not been registered during the past, say, two years, should not be registered again.\n(2) His Majesty's consuls should also notify all Anglo-Chinese that, though registered as British subjects, they are also, by Chinese law, Chinese subjects; that it is proposed at some future time to establish a system of communicating to the Chinese authorities lists of all Chinese subjects who also possess British nationality and are registered as British subjects; and that if any Anglo-Chinese desire, prior to the establishment of this system, to cease to be registered as British subjects, their registration will, on due application, be cancelled.\n(3) The issue of protection certificates by Colonial Governments should cease entirely forthwith; any certificate of birth, passport, or other similar document, issued to individuals of Chinese race should bear an endorsement in the English and Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534412, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-540-13 Proposal by Chinese Government to establish vice-consulate in Hong Kong 6-6-1932 - 30-12-1932", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-540-13 Proposal by Chinese Government to establish vice-consulate in Hong Kong 6-6-1932 - 30-12-1932", "content_text": "COF\n\nEnclosure in Canton despatch No. 119 of September 5th, 1932.\n\nBRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nCANTON,\n\n3rd September, 1932.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit to you the view of the Committee of this Chamber regarding the Regulations governing the issuance of Consular Invoices promulgated by the National Government of China and which came into effect on the 1st instant. This matter is very adequately covered in an article which occupies the whole of page 201 of August issue of the British Chamber of Commerce Journal, and our views coincide entirely with what is written therein. We particularly desire to associate ourselves with the comments in this article on the inadequacy for this purpose of the present Chinese Consular representations abroad, and also where attention is drawn to the desirability of increasing the maximum value of invoices to be exempt from Consular certification from $200 to $500.\n\nWe are most intimately concerned with the establishment of Facilities for the issuance of Consular invoices in the port of Hongkong and in the interests of British import trade in South China it seems to us vital that such facilities should be provided. The question of the establishment of a Chinese Consulate in the port of Hongkong is of course a matter between the British and Chinese Governments, and we can only express the view that\n\nHerbert Phillips, Esquire, C.M.G., O.B.E.,\n\nH. B. M. Consul-General,\n\nCanton.\n\n58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-540-13 Proposal by Chinese Government to establish vice-consulate in Hong Kong 6-6-1932 - 30-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537059, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-543-16 China- protection for Anglo-Chinese 13-2-1933 - 13-3-1934", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-543-16 China- protection for Anglo-Chinese 13-2-1933 - 13-3-1934", "content_text": "Enclosure 1 in Shanghai despatch to Peking Number 51 of February 22nd, 1933\n\n99\n\nLetter from Messrs. Teesdale Newman and Company\nto J.O. Davidson, Esquire, Shanghai, January 7th, 1933.\n\nSir,\n\nTseng Wu Cho (deceased)\n\nWe have to inform you that we are acting for Mrs. Tseng Wu Cho, a British subject, the widow of Tseng Wu Cho deceased. Probate of whose Estate has recently been granted by H.B.M. Supreme Court at Shanghai.\n\nMrs. Tseng is herself a British subject having been born in Hongkong of British parents and she is now obtaining the necessary papers from Hongkong in order to apply for a British passport. Her father, who is still alive and is resident in Foochow, is also a British subject.\n\nThe Estate is quite a large one and certain relatives, viz. the sisters of her late husband, who are Chinese citizens although born in Hongkong, have brought an action in the First Special District Court claiming a share in the Estate. The second hearing will take place on Wednesday, the 11th instant, and although the Probate has been produced and shown to the Court, we are instructed that the Court desires to receive an official letter from H.B.M. Consulate to the effect that Mr. Tseng Wu Cho's Estate has been taken jurisdiction over by the British Court and that he was a British subject.\n\nWe should be much obliged, therefore, if you would on behalf of our client cause such letter to be addressed through the proper channels to the President of the First Special District Court containing a statement to this effect. At the same time we should be very much obliged if you would kindly send us a copy of the letter in question in order that Mrs. Tseng's Counsel may have the same before him at the trial of the action.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\n(sgd) Teesdale, Newman and Co.\n\nPage 70\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-543-16 China- protection for Anglo-Chinese 13-2-1933 - 13-3-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537542, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933", "content_text": "26 of the Provincial Government called on the Governor; the Colonial Secretary, Secretary for Chinese Affairs and myself were also present.\n\nThe Chairman was given the precedence of a visiting Governor, and I need hardly say that the evening was in every way a most successful one.\n\nThe Canton party returned by special train on the morning of the 28th, and the Chairman was kind enough to place a seat in the train at my disposal.\n\n7. I do not propose to make any comments in regard to the Fair, the various aspects of which are fully dealt with in the report. There is no doubt, however, that the Canton officials who attended the opening ceremony were greatly pleased with the reception they received, and if I may venture to say so, with the hospitality extended to them by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have today received a personal letter from Mr Liu Yun-kai, enclosing letters for His Excellency the Governor and Mr J. Paterson, Chairman of the Fair Committee, \"in connection\", he writes, \"with our recent and most pleasant visit in Hong Kong\". Mr Liu adds: \"I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for all the arrangements through your Consulate, which enabled us to have a delightful visit in the Colony\".\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient\nhumble servant,\n**(signed)** E.G. Jamieson,\nActing Consul-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548465, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "content_text": "109\n\nas the old question of guarantees will have to be tackled next. I may get their assistance, but I must not mention that at present. If I did they might apply for it themselves and try to do the work without me.\n\ninformation.\n\ncontract.\n\nOnce they have got all the\n\nYesterday our confidant in the matter had a long talk with the Mayor who seems to be favourably inclined to take our side.\n\nThe Mayor informed him that he would study the plans for a few days and call us in again. Bland will be going to Canton in a week or so to see the Mayor again and in the meantime I have our Consulate people doing their bit in a social way.\n\nThe technical people in the waterworks are on our side so I am on fairly safe ground, probably have to make one or two small changes, but I have allowed for this. Changes must be made to give those who study the plans \"face\"; so that they will show how much they know about the job. The clear water pumps, from the filter to the reservoirs may be omitted by raising the filters so that the water may flow by gravity into the tanks.\n\nThe only difficulty about this is the low level of the present ground. Even now I must raise it 6'0\". If they are raised I must put in more piles to support the filters and settling tanks which costs more money.\n\nI do not mind so long as they pay.\n\nThe Macau waterworks is a difficult problem. The Hongkong Government have got the \"wind up\" about the Japs trying to get into Macau by offering any amount of money they require to develop the port. London does not seem to do anything although they have been told, and the Bank will not advance any money unless the British Government give them support. I cannot understand them at home. They put money into Singapore, and yet by refusing to guarantee about £120,000 to a British Bank in Hongkong, the Japanese will be able to secure a footing only 40 miles away from the colony.\n\nThe Portuguese do not want...\n\nPage 110\n\nPage 111", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "content_text": "# \n\nNever before in the history of this Chamber have we enjoyed the distinction of doing honour to both the Chairman of the Provincial Government and to the Mayor of Canton at the same time. The occasion is indeed one that calls for a standard of eloquence far beyond my capabilities. I can but do my best and if, in the course of doing so, I should strike an occasional note which appears to our guests as too informal for the occasion, I would remind them that their visit is informal and the time is after dinner.\n\nIn introducing our official visitors I must of necessity be brief, for the full list of important posts they have already occupied would take far too long to record in the time at my disposal.\n\nHis Excellency General Huang Mu-sung is one of China's senior soldiers. He has been President of the National Military Academy and is entitled to regard most of China's present military officers as his pupils. He studied military tactics in Great Britain and Germany and has investigated military affairs on behalf of his Government in both Europe and America. He has the unique distinction of being China's first delegate at the International Disarmament Conference, and, as special Commissioner for Thibet and Chairman of the Thibetan Commission, he rendered service to his Government.\n\n## Mayor's Career\n\nHis Honour Mr. Tsang Yang-fu was a graduate of Peiyang and Pittsburgh Universities. During his brilliant career he has been Director of political training at Canton, Commissioner of Reconstruction in Kwangtung Provincial Government, Director of the political department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Vice-Chairman of the National Reconstruction Commission, Vice-Minister of Railways and a Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang since 1929.\n\nMr. T. L. Soong, the Commissioner of Finance, was to have been with us, but has unfortunately been prevented by illness from doing so. We wish him a speedy recovery.\n\nDr. Philip Tyau, the Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs, was previously Minister to Panama and Cuba and Consul General in the Straits Settlements. Being an old friend of mine, I am particularly pleased that circumstances have brought him to Canton. We first met one another when he was at Cambridge, more years ago than either of he or I care to remember. One of the subjects besides Law which he took up at Cambridge with enthusiasm was lawn tennis. Many are the games we have played together and too many are the times when, I regret to say, that powerful forehand drive of his left me standing impotent and disconsolate on the court. If Dr. Tyau's diplomacy is as forceful as his tennis, I foresee a period of great activity in H.B.M. Consulate on the Shameen, but knowing Philip Tyau and Herbert Phillips as well as I do, we can rest assured that the game will be played in a true sporting spirit from start to finish. (Applause).\n\nColonel Li Fang was well known to many of us when he was Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Hankow, since when he has gained valuable experience as his country's Consul General in Siberia, at Novo Simbirsk.\n\nMr. Chang Yuen-nan, counsellor to the Chairman, was a graduate of Nanking University and the Military Academy of Japan, and he has held many important military posts in the capital.\n\nFrom that all too brief account of the distinguished careers of our official guests, it will be seen that they bring to their high offices a reputation and experience which justifies us in confidently looking forward during their administration to an era of recovery and progress. (Applause).\n\nWe are also honoured to have with us to-night a commercial delegation composed of Canton's leading business and professional men. The delegation is led by Mr. Ho Tsap-ping, the Chairman of the United Chambers of Commerce of Kwangtung, who, by a happy coincidence, is closely connected in business with your Chairman, a relationship which must surely facilitate that closer co-operation between our two Chambers which we all desire. (Applause).\n\nAs I mentioned during our Goodwill visit to Canton last year, Mr. Ho and I are colleagues in a company to which our Chinese friends long ago thoughtlessly gave the name of \"Teen Cheang,\" \"Heavenly Prosperity\". We frankly confessed that we wished our friends had given us some other name offering more promise of immediate reward, but this year we have every confidence that, in the merchants' paradise which Your Excellency is about to create by the stabilisation of the currency, we shall be able to discount on earth a little of the prosperity coming to us in heaven. (Laughter).\n\n## Stabilisation Benefits\n\nI am perfectly serious when I say that stabilisation of the currency would create a traders' paradise; stabilisation is his dream, violent fluctuation his nightmare and nothing, in the opinion of this Chamber, would be more conducive to recovery than a stable exchange in South China. We therefore look forward with confidence to the national dollar shortly becoming its recognised currency.\n\nBy a happy coincidence, there occurred to-day an incident which draws still closer the bonds of commercial union which inevitably link China and Hongkong. I refer to the first landing at Kai Tak of the aeroplane service which carries mails and passengers between Shanghai and Canton. It is most satisfactory to all of us that this very natural and sensible arrangement has now been made. Hongkong has always been given the benefit of the domestic rate in respect of charges on mail between here and China. I am glad to learn that a similar rule will apply to the air mail link now inaugurated.\n\nIt is a matter for great regret to us that we have not been able to show the commercial party industrial development in Hongkong on anything like the scale they showed it to us in Canton last year.\n\nThe remarkable progress we witnessed during our enjoyable visit fully bears out the description of it given by the American Economic Mission in their recent report that \"a vast change is coming over China, a modernisation that as compared with 10 or even five years ago, marks many centuries.\" That phrase, I think, aptly describes the great strides made in all directions and provides a striking contrast to the old exploded idea that a century of change in China is the equivalent of but a few years of change in Europe. If His Honour the Mayor succeeds, as I sincerely hope he will, in carrying out the great schemes he has in mind for the improvement of his City and the welfare of his countrymen, his administration in Canton will assuredly mark a further century of progress.\n\n## Unification Agreement\n\nBut, in my view, of all China's achievements, the unification of the country stands out above the rest. We used to think of unification as a dream that could never come true; to-day it is a reality—and a reality, Gentlemen, which pays a far greater tribute than any words of mine, to the outstanding leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and to the wise policies of the Central Government. (Loud applause).\n\nAnd now a few words on a topic which I am accused of wearing threadbare. His Honour the Mayor said last week that the prosperity of Hongkong depends upon the prosperity of Canton and vice versa; we entirely agree with him, but in the light of the disastrous results of the attempts by almost all nations to create their own prosperity within their own borders, without the help of their neighbours, His Honour might have gone still further and said that no nation can sustain and develop its domestic prosperity without the assistance of an ever expanding world prosperity. In other words, neither national nor international recovery will ever be permanently achieved until economic reciprocity and co-operation will take the place of economic isolation and retaliation.\n\nI make no apology, above all in this Colony, for wearing this subject threadbare, for every time an opportunity occurs to raise it, I find fresh and encouraging evidence that Economic Nationalism as practised to-day, has been proved a failure.\n\n## Dr. Koo's View\n\nIn Dr. Wellington Koo's address, on behalf of China to the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, is this significant paragraph:\n\n\"In view of the unrelaxed pursuit of the policy of seeking national self-sufficiency by methods of economic jugglery, it is doubtful that the road to economic recovery is already clear. The dream of economic nationalism has not yet lost its spell over the nations of the world. Barriers to trade of all kinds continue to hamper trade and impede development.”\n\nThe inference to be drawn from that statement is surely that if other nations are prepared to remove some of the barriers now obstructing international trade, such as quotas, prohibitive tariffs, monopolies and exchange restrictions, China will follow suit. Whether or not that inference is correct, it was never more essential in the interests of world peace, that the risk of misunderstanding between nations should be reduced to a minimum and every opportunity created for frank and helpful discussion of the many problems that arise. It is our earnest hope, so far as Hongkong and South China are concerned, that the personal contacts made between us during this exchange of visits may develop into friendships which will create such opportunities, and still further strengthen and promote the bonds of unity between this Colony and her great neighbour. (Loud applause).\n\nIn proposing the toast of the evening, I wish to offer a word of explanation to our other guests, who hold positions of leadership in Canton and Hongkong. We ask them to regard themselves on this occasion more in the light of hosts than guests. We thank them all for accepting our invitation to unite with us to-night in doing honour to \"Our Distinguished Guests from Canton,\" which is the toast I now ask them to join with us in drinking, coupling it with the names of His Excellency the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, His Honour the Mayor of Canton and the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Chamber of Commerce.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "content_text": "## A Visit to Canton\n\nA visit was also made to Yellow Flower Hill to view the Memorial in honour of the famous \"72 Heroes,\" and here Sir Andrew Caldecott laid a beautiful wreath to their memory.\n\n\"My wife and I have returned from Canton with the memories of two of the most wonderfully happy days in our lives. It was our extreme good fortune that on our first introduction to China we were able to pay our respects personally to the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and our only regret was that the latter's indisposition necessitated her leaving Canton for Kuling yesterday. We are looking forward to hearing that the change of climate has resulted in her complete recuperation.\n\n\"Words fail me to describe the warmth and friendliness with which we were received and the excellence of the arrangements made for us. I was particularly struck by the smartness of the Guards of Honour and the efficiency of the police arrangements. We were very sad that owing to the attack of fever we were unable to make the same personal contact with him as we so much enjoyed making with Their Excellencies the Chairman of the Provincial Government and the Pacification Commissioner. The Mayor's Secretary was indefatigable in his kind services to us and in showing us round. We have come away deeply impressed by the progress of urban development and by those marvels of modern Chinese architecture, the Sun Yat-sen University and the Memorial Hall, which was greatly admired.\n\nAt 12:30 p.m. Sir Andrew, Mr. Herbert Phillips, H.M. Consul-General, Mr. W.F. Gibbs, H.M. Consul, Captain A.R. Halfhide, R.S., and Captain W.J.A. Cragg, A.D.C., proceeded to the Municipal Administration Building to lunch with General Huang Mu-sung, Chairman of the Provincial Government, General Yu Han-mow, Pacification Commissioner, and Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, Mayor of Canton. The latter, being unfortunately ill, was represented by Colonel Li Fong. Here a Guard of Honour and a band was also provided.\n\n## INFORMAL DINNER\n\nAt 8 p.m. on Friday an informal dinner was given by Mr. Herbert Phillips in honour of His Excellency the Generalissimo and Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott. This was the first time that the Generalissimo had visited Shamian. A party of 18 included the Chairman of the Provincial Government, General Huang Mu-sung, and General Yu Han-mow, Pacification Commissioner, Colonel Li Fong (deputising for the Mayor), Dr. Wang Chung-hui, General Chien Ta-chun, Mr. T.L. Sung, and other officials. Madame Chiang was unable to attend as she had left by air for Kuling that morning.\n\nA Guard of Honour of Indian police was drawn up at the Pier on the arrival of the Generalissimo. At the Consulate-General a naval Guard from H.M.S. `Tarantula` was mounted.\n\nAfter a most successful informal visit Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott returned to Hong Kong by the 8:15 a.m. train yesterday.\n\nOn arriving in Hong Kong yesterday morning H.E. the Governor and Lady Caldecott were met by Press representatives and stayed for a few moments to inspect a railway coach which has been converted into an observation car, charmingly furnished. Mr. R.D. Walker, manager of the Kowloon Section, and Mr. J. Smith, mechanical engineer, showed the visitors the details of the coach.\n\n## HIS EXCELLENCY'S MESSAGE\n\nTo the Press representatives Sir Andrew Caldecott gave the following message in response to their enquiries as to his impressions of this visit to Canton.\n\nA great crowd at the Station gave the Governor and Lady Caldecott an enthusiastic \"welcome back\" as they left by launch for Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "content_text": "## 2. \n\n4P \n\n¡ \n\nThe need for understanding and co-operation between Canton and Hong Kong, but nothing more. In the case of the Generalissimo, it was however otherwise, and the main purpose of this despatch is to reproduce the gist of what he said. There were two distinct conversations between us, one at Whampoa on 17th September and one at the Consulate dinner on 18th September. I will deal with each separately, but it is convenient to mention here that on the morning of the 18th September (i.e., in the interval between our two conversations), Marshal Li Tsung-jen, who had arrived from Kuangsi the previous afternoon, was received by the Generalissimo, a meeting which set the final seal on the reconciliation of Kuangsi to Nanking. I did not, however, myself meet Marshal Li Tsung-jen.\n\n3. The talk at Whampoa was not tete-a-tete; the circle, seated in a garden overlooking the river and facing the sunset, included (beside the Generalissimo and myself) Madame Chiang Kai Shek, who interpreted, the Consul-General, my wife, Mr. W.H. Donald (the Generalissimo's \"chief unofficial adviser\"), and Colonel Huang, head of the moral uplift movement in the Chinese army but at the moment acting as Aide de Camp and Private Secretary to Madame Chiang Kai Shek. The Generalissimo began by asking what I had to say, and I replied that I deeply appreciated the warmth of our welcome and the opportunity for making personal contact, because in matters of commerce and of border administration, Canton and Hong Kong inevitably had many problems and interests in common, which would be best solved and served by mutual understanding and co-operation. I mentioned the visit to Canton, on the previous day, of the Chairman and Secretary of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and hoped that the business heads of Canton would soon pay a good-will visit to Hong Kong, where we hoped to return the hospitality extended to our business men by Canton last year when they came up on a similar mission. I mentioned that Sir Frederick Maze had informally enquired...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552280, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "content_text": "## \n\nChien Ta-chun, Mr. T. L. Sung, members of the Consulate staff and other officials. Madame Chiang was unable to attend as she had left by air for Kuling that morning.\n\nA Guard of Honour of Indian police was drawn up at the Pier on the arrival of the Generalissimo. At the Consulate-General a naval Guard from H.M.S. `Tarantula` was mounted.\n\nAfter a most successful informal visit Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott returned to Hong Kong by the 8.15 a.m. train yesterday.\n\nOn arriving in Hong Kong yesterday morning H.E. the Governor and Lady Caldecott were met by Press representatives and stayed for a few moments to inspect a railway coach which has been converted into an observation car, charmingly furnished. Mr. R. D. Walker, manager of the Kowloon Section, and Mr. J. Smith, mechanical engineer, showed the visitors the details of the coach.\n\n## HIS EXCELLENCY'S MESSAGE\n\nTo the Press representatives Sir Andrew Caldecott gave the following message in response to their enquiries as to his impressions of his visit to Canton.\n\n\"My wife and I have returned from Canton with the memories of two of the most wonderfully happy days in our lives. It was our extreme good fortune that on our first introduction to China we were able to pay our respects personally to the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and our only regret was that the latter's indisposition necessitated her leaving.\n\nWe are looking forward to hearing that the change of climate has resulted in her complete recuperation.\n\n\"Words fail me to describe the warmth and friendliness with which we were received and the excellence of the arrangements made for us. I was particularly struck by the smartness of the Guards of Honour and the efficiency of the police arrangements. We were very sad that owing to the Mayor's indisposition with an attack of fever we were unable to make the same personal contact with him as we so much enjoyed making with Their Excellencies the Chairman of the Provincial Government and the Pacification Commissioner. The Mayor's Secretary was indefatigable in his kind services to us and in showing us round. We have come away deeply impressed by the progress of urban development and by those marvels of modern Chinese architecture, the Sun Yat-sen University and the Memorial Hall.\n\n\"We had a wonderful send-off at the station and I was happy to think that it was a case of 'au revoir and not adieu,' for we both look forward to visiting Canton another day and to meeting our kind hosts again, not only there but, we very much hope, as our guests in Hong Kong.\"\n\nA great crowd at the Station gave the Governor and Lady Caldecott an enthusiastic \"welcome back\" as they left by launch for Hong Kong.\n\n## 54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552989, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "content_text": "# COPY \n\n`(≥ 10531/130/10)`\n\n## No.67 \n(& two copies)\n\nCopies to: \nBabaeey, Fexing No.148 \n(& two copies) \nEmbassy, Nanking No.142 \n\n**Sino-Japanese conflict; interview with representative of Marshal Li Tsung-jen.**\n\n| Entity | No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor, Hong Kong | No.90 |\n| C-in-C | No.24 |\n\n**secret.**\n\nBritish Consulate-General, Canton.\n\n2nd November, 1937.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your telegram No.14 of 28th September, I have the honour to report that General Kan Chung-hus, accompanied by his Secretary, Mr. Chen Yun-pao, called on me on 4th October, when I communicated to him the gist of your telegram under reference. I have ascertained that there have been no developments. The Kwangsi authorities seem to have not considered it worth while, under the circumstances, to initiate negotiations with any British firms.\n\n2. I have so far no insight into the sources of Marshal Li Tsung-jen's inspiration (to appeal to us for special present facilities in the supply of armaments in return for military assistance to Hong Kong in time of future need - see my telegram No.77 of 24th September to Peking, repeated to Foreign Office as No.18). I do not even know whether his offer and appeal were made with or without the knowledge of the Central Government. But, it will be remembered that on 31st March 1936, Marshal Li spoke in somewhat the same sense to Admiral Sir Charles Little and Mr. Consul-General Phillips (see Canton despatch Secret No.50 of 4th April 1936 to Peking, copied to Foreign Office No.12). The Senior Naval Officer, West River, (Captain A.B. Cunninghame Graham, R.N.) also informed me that Marshal Li addressed him in a similar manner.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nAnthony Eden, M.C., M.P., \netc., etc., etc., \nForeign Office, \nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554820, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-11 Sino-Japanese War- political situation 17-8-1937 - 8-3-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-563-11 Sino-Japanese War- political situation 17-8-1937 - 8-3-1938", "content_text": "## DM/15\n\nwhose camera was seized by the Chinese Police. The party then drove to SHATAUKOK Police Station whence Major SUZUKI was sent to Hospital, where his shoulder was set the same afternoon. G.O.S. III. later returned to the village with the Assistant Commissioner of Police, through whose good offices the camera was recovered from the Chinese Police, after the latter had taken out the film, which however only contained two group photographs of no military or other significance.\n\nAlthough the incident was fortunately thus limited to the most trivial consequences, it might have had very embarrassing results if the Japanese Consulate had attempted to play it up on the grounds that the trip had been made under the auspices of G.S.O. III. That they did not do so is no doubt partly attributable to the fact that the party had trespassed (albeit unwittingly) on Chinese territory, but mainly because the more responsible Japanese civil authorities, in contradiction to their military and naval colleagues, are genuinely anxious to avoid further friction with us if possible.\n\n**(Military)** \n`(H.K.I.R. No.1/38)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-11 Sino-Japanese War- political situation 17-8-1937 - 8-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "COPY\n\nThe Managing Director.\n\n265 $th 50 Embassy, Shanghai\n\n42 April, 1938\n\n26th March, 1938.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nAir Mail: 28th March, 1938.\n\nI have report that one enemy plane attacked us at 9.10 a.m. on the 25th instant. Some bombs were dropped at Km. 116/0 and 116/4 near Fan Tong station, but no damage was done to the track.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nA. X.\n\nEngineer-in-Chief.\n\nCopy to A. P. Blunt, Esquire,\n\nConsul-General,\n\nA. B. Consulate-General,\n\nCASTON\n\nfor favour of note\n\n(Signed) *.ä. Street\n\nEngineer-in-Chief\n\nC. A. K.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "**THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT**\n\n174\n\n## FAR EASTERN (CHINA)\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[F 2519/84/10]`\n\nMarch 14, 1939.\n\n### SECTION 2\n\nCopy No.\n\n## Consul-General Sir H. Phillips to Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai).—(Communicated under cover of Shanghai despatch to Foreign Office No. 63 of February 23; Received March 14.)\n\n**(No. 82. Confidential.)**\n\nSir,\n\nShanghai, February 23, 1939.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 40 of the 22nd February, I have the honour to forward herewith copy of a memorandum, dated yesterday, sent to me by the secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Council, which contains the text of the letter handed at 3 P.M. on the 22nd February to the chairman of the council by Mr. Miura, Japanese Consul-General.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHERBERT PHILLIPS.\n\n### Enclosure\n\n#### Memorandum from the Secretary, Shanghai Municipal Council, February 22, 1939.\n\nTHE Japanese Consul-General, accompanied by the commander of the special landing party and the commander of the Japanese garrison, called on the chairman of the council on Wednesday, the 22nd February, and spoke as follows:-\n\nWith reference to our conversation on Monday last, I have brought a written representation to the chairman of the municipal council. A number of requests are set forth in this note, and I wish to emphasise that these requests are made in the genuine spirit of co-operation and goodwill, with a view to suppressing and repudiating the terroristic activities in the Settlement which are now the order of the day, and also to preserving the peace and order in the Settlement. I hope you will be good enough to understand our position and give us a prompt acceptance.\n\n\"I wish to add that there is much room for doubt that the present terroristic activities are being carried out to cause a direct clash between Japan and the municipal council and also with some third Powers, especially with Great Britain. We must be very careful not to be trapped by such a sinister strategy. And once again I wish you would take these requests as from our most earnest desire of coping with the present most undesirable situation.\"\n\nThe Japanese Consul-General then handed to the chairman the following written memorandum:\n\n\"Japanese Consul-General to the Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council.\n\nJapanese Consulate-General,\n\n\"Sir,\n\nShanghai, February 22, 1939.\n\n\"In conjunction with the commander of the special landing party of the Japanese navy and the commander of the garrison of the Japanese army, I have the honour to refer to my representations to you regarding the suppression of terrorist activities of the anti-Japanese elements, in order to maintain peace and order in the International Settlement, the latest of these communications being dated the 15th February, with which a memorandum of the commander of the special landing party of the Japanese navy was transmitted.\n\n\"In spite of your repeated assurances of co-operation, anti-Japanese terrorism in the Settlement south of the Soochow Creek continued to exist, and on the 19th February, the Lunar New Year's Day, a number of outrages were again committed. The Japanese authorities take a serious view of the fact that among the victims were men in the employ of the Japanese army and a woman.\n\n`[558 0-2]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570862, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "content_text": "# C.N.CO. 92 HONG KONG. 23rd April, 1940.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nCanton Trade.\n\nYou have probably seen references in the press to the alleged opening of the Pearl River on 20th April by the Japanese military, and we enclose copy of the announcement made by their Consulate-General in Canton from which you will see that the proposals, if we were prepared to play, would really leave us rather worse off than we are at present.\n\nAs a result, apparently, of their uncertainty as to our reactions, the Japanese have not so far given the matter the degree of publicity that might have been expected since the move is obviously a political one for American benefit, but should they attempt to make more capital out of it, it may be advisable to prick the balloon, and a question in the House might be effective when the Foreign and Colonial Offices have been properly primed.\n\nWe think our authorities here can be kept on the right lines for the time being, and in this connection we enclose a copy of our letter to Canton of 22nd April. The dangers of trying to compromise on the issue are obvious.\n\nYours faithfully,\n**BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE**\n\nMessrs. John Swire & Sons, Ltd.,\nLONDON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940", "content_text": "# COPY\n\n**BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE**, \n\nMessrs. John Swire & Sons, Ltd., \n\nLONDON. \n\nHONG KONG. \n\n23rd April, 1940. \n\n1330 \n\nDear Sirs, \n\n**C.N.CO.** \n**Canton Trade** \n\nYou have probably seen references in the press to the alleged opening of the Pearl River on 20th April by the Japanese military, and we enclose copy of the announcement made by their Consulate-General in Canton from which you will see that the proposals, if we were prepared to play, would really leave us rather worse off than we are at present. \n\nAs a result, apparently, of their uncertainty as to our reactions, the Japanese have not so far given the matter the degree of publicity that might have been expected since the move is obviously a political one for American benefit, but should they attempt to make more capital out of it, it may be advisable to prick the balloon, and a question in the House might be effective when the Foreign and Colonial Offices have been properly primed. \n\nWe think our authorities here can be kept on the right lines for the time being, and in this connection we enclose a copy of our letter to Canton of 22nd April. The dangers of trying to compromise on the issue are obvious. \n\nYours faithfully, \n\n**BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE**. \n\nPage 130\nPage 131", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572863, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "content_text": "# [CYPHER]\n## DEPARTMENTAL NO. 2. 214\n### FROM CHUNGKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE\n\n**Sir H. Seymour**\n\nNo: 569\n\nApril 27th, 1942. 27th,1942.\n\nD. 4. 0p.m.\n\nR. 4.45 a.m. April 28th, 1942.\n\n11111\n\nYour telegram No. 552.\n\nIt should be borne in mind that British military setbacks in the Far East, our dependence on Chinese armies for defence of Burma and obvious Chinese realisation (as shown by their behaviour) of what all this may mean, renders the continued retention of British extra-territorial rights an anomaly which may at any time prove awkward and consequently become dangerous to us itself.\n\n2. It is possible that the Chinese Government will deliberately refrain from raising the matter. I dread taking the initiative for fear of appearing as suppliants in a matter of national humiliation. But the issue may at any moment be forced on us, e.g. by a motor accident involving a British driver or attempted enforcement of some Chinese war-time regulation affecting foreign firms. We should then either have to make a hurried surrender or come into acute conflict with the Chinese Government by seeking to maintain our extra-territorial rights.\n\n3. An offer to \"negotiate after the war\" means little at present to the Chinese who would be unlikely to admit that the question is a subject for negotiation.\n\n4. I agree that it is undesirable to issue a proposed statement at present time and recommend that any action taken to strengthen our legal machinery should be as unobtrusive as possible. If the question of extra-territoriality is to be shelved indefinitely, the need for a Legal Adviser to assist the acting judge may arise at any moment. The former would, however, have to be attached to the Embassy or the Consulate General for general duties, as there would be no legal work for him to do unless and until the need for his services arises. The only China Consular Officer with legal qualifications is believed to be Whitamore, now in Manchuria.\n\n## [INDIV]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575557, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## Page 198\n\nthey had been involved in accidents. The city was desolated and the scene in general was heartbreaking.\n\nFood supplies are getting scarce and meals are now being served only twice per day, 10.0 to 12.0 and 4.0 to 6.0 and the food is dreadful.\n\nFrom the roof today we saw 17 naval ships in harbour, including three of their new type cruisers and two or three large destroyers which look like flotilla leaders. Hongkong Bank, Exchange Building, and many of the large buildings are flying the Sun, also Murray Barracks and the Dockyard.\n\nOn top of our building and the Exchange building are two large white sheets attached to the flag pole. There is no breeze and they look a sorry spectacle.\n\n27th December 1941.\n\nI am getting worried about the large numbers of soldiers in the Colony. Today I watched the parade merely out of a desire to see how many troops there were. I fear for the safety of the women. I have already approached the Consul and asked if I can be of any assistance to them. It is approaching their New Year and from past experience I know how they celebrate, and with a few drinks anything might happen and the reports about what has happened at Courtlands are not at all pleasant. The women from Courtlands are now housed on the 8th floor lounge. After last night's episode they are afraid to stay there. A Jap. officer asked for the manageress and when she appeared he said \"Bring me food and a couple of English beauties\". As he was alone they barricaded their doors with furniture and moved out today.\n\n28th December 1941.\n\nDuring a call at Dina House with P.W. met Dr. Valentine who told me they had been looking for me regarding the question of the welfare of our women. I explained that I had been to the consulate but did not appear welcome. He then took me to see Lt. Col. Iguchi the Jap. D.M.S. We discussed the question of prostitutes and the brothel system, and I explained to him that there were no licensed houses in H.K. He stated that he knew there were large numbers of girls in the Colony and that he wanted to organise as quickly as possible a licensed quarter. He produced maps and I marked out on them areas where these girls might be found and offered to contact them for him. He asked me to meet him later in the afternoon and to take him around the areas personally and show him where these girls lived. He said they were prepared to pay them, examine them and clean them up if necessary. He further explained that there were some 40,000 troops on the island and that New Year was coming on and that if some system was not started immediately he could not guarantee the safety of the women. At 5.0 pm I went with him in his car and showed him the various houses in each district where prostitutes could be found. I know them personally and have often visited the houses in the course of my work. I offered to see the girls and talk to them. I explained very carefully that not all the houses were brothels but only a certain number and that I would be willing to help him contact the girls. My offer was politely but firmly refused.\n\nThe Gloucester today refused to supply us with food as there is now no longer a Government, so we shall have to get it outside. There are a few places open.\n\nReverting back to Iguchi, he asked me how many girls there were in the Colony who were prostitutes. I explained to him the difficulties since the fall of Canton, and gave him a random figure. He said \"The trouble with H.K. is that there are far too many people\" I asked him what he proposed to do about that, and he replied \"The H.K. Govt. failed, we will not fail, we will send them back to the country by force if necessary\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575731, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "The hospital was packed with patients, wounded officers being on our floor, various civilians, and the Chinese wards being filled with casualties from bombings of rice queues as well as other disasters. The bombs around the Central Market brought in 165 casualties in one day; the Chinese packed all the hospitals. How the Government of Hong Kong expected to hold its Island Fortress with two million native population milling about in its streets needing food, water and shelter is a question only they can answer. It certainly did not take the Japanese long to cut vital sources of supply such as water and electricity.\n\n82\n\nThey of course commandeered all supplies of food as soon as they took over control in Hong Kong, and the question of feeding the hospital became acute at times. A group of volunteers ran a transport system for food supplies, bringing in flour and rice. The bread was very uncertain because the bakers had been carried off and put into prison. They were finally released and made bread for some time in a bakery in Janchai. We were never without bread or scones of some sort although the supply was limited. When the bread gave out, the hospital kitchen, not knowing how to make bread, or rather yeast, got some V.A.D. volunteers to make scones. They were pretty stodgy, but at least they were something to eat. I had never been hungry, unable to get food before in my life, but we certainly knew what it was then, until I started making the daily trip to Pokfulam. It meant a walk of four or five miles every day, running the gauntlet of Japanese there and back, but it was worth it to get the food.\n\nI walked into town too, a jaunt of about four miles each way. But had to give that up as the Japanese rounded up all motor cars at once, and issued orders that everybody except Chinese and Indians obtain a pass stating their nationality. To enforce this they stationed sentries along the roads, and as everybody had to walk, those without passes were caught and sent to Chinese hotels. This was after they had begun collecting British and Americans for internment.\n\nMy husband applied through Dr. Selwyn-Clark, and later through the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Gimson, for a pass for me, as it was imperative that I was able to go about and get food for him. As nothing happened he wrote direct to the Japanese Consul making his good offices in the matter. The following day a Japanese Vice-consul called at the hospital, and filled out forms and took photographs and I was asked to call the next day to see Mr. Kimura to obtain the pass. I was given a special card of Mr. Kimura requesting the sentries to allow me to pass.\n\nArriving at Mr. Kimura's office the following morning, I was kept waiting about three quarters of an hour. Mr. Kimura seemed to be having a rather irate conversation with two military officers, the door being open between the two rooms. He finally came in and inquired very solicitously about my husband, asking a number of questions about his condition and the reasons for our being in Hong Kong. He told me that he had been able to obtain a pass good for ten days from Army, for my use. I thanked him for this but asked if it wouldn't be possible to have a permanent pass under the circumstances. He returned to his office and had another animated argument with the two officers finally returning to say that I must report to him every ten days to have the pass renewed, and that he had given his personal guarantee for it, and that he would do everything in his power to help us, but that he was in a most anomalous and difficult position, the Consulate General being abolished or about to be, since the Army was in entire control, and he being in Hong Kong merely on sufferance.\n\nHaving obtained the one thing that was vitally important to us at the moment, I had had foresight enough to draw all our money out of the bank a few days before the capitulation, a matter of $3500 as we kept a checking account in Hong Kong only. I went out and had some lunch to celebrate, the first decent meal I had had for weeks, and it wasn't very good at that as food was very scarce and very bad at that time in Hong Kong. I then bought some tins of food, and started to walk back to the Hospital; a very long walk indeed. Fortunately I saw the Bread Lorry on Queen's Road, run by Owen Evans and Dr. Henry, who said they would take me back after they had done their rounds; which was a life saver. I doubt if I could have walked it.\n\nHaving the pass, and a little money, the next thing was to try and get necessary medicines and liver injections. My husband had enough to eat but we had to have his digestive, and the liver to fight the anaemia...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "them as comfortable as people could be who were sleeping on cement floors in the basement of the building. The American Consulate people were on the Peak, in Mr. Bruin's house; there were twenty of them there and they were \"all right\".\n\n84\n\nLater they were taken to Stanley, as also Sir Athol and Lady McGregor and a group of their friends. They all remained out of Stanley as long as they could.\n\nAbout the 5th of January orders were issued for people to assemble on the Cricket ground; we heard rumors of this at the Queen Mary Hospital. Everything was rumors, because all telephone connections had been cut, and my last chat with the Blackburns was a day or two after the capitulation. Then everything went dead.\n\nThe hospital lived on rumors: we were to be evacuated, the Japanese were taking over, we were to be taken to Formosa, all Hongkong was to be taken to Formosa; the war of nerves was worse than the war with the Japanese had been. Matrons were relieved of duty due to breakdowns; they reappeared after a few days. The kitchen staff walked out because they couldn't endure the brainstorms of the Sister in charge. A pretty little Portuguese masseuse who had been caught at the Jockey Club together with a number of nurses and A.N.S. from the Queen Mary Hospital, and had just escaped rape, many of the others did not; she succeeded in hiding under a bed for eighteen hours and later walked barefoot, disguised as a Chinese coolie woman from Happy Valley to Pokfulam, was severely reprimanded by the Principal Matron for her carelessness in leaving her belongings behind in the upstairs room which she had been sharing with some other girls. She was told that she should have asked a Japanese officer to protect her while she went to fetch her effects. She told me this story herself; I knew her well and can vouch for its authenticity.\n\nThe situation reached a crisis on the 19th of January when it was announced that the Japanese were evacuating everyone to Stanley Prison. Sick or well, everyone was to go. Packing began frantically; all Chinese patients who could be moved had already been shifted to their homes, or to other hospitals, as also as many convalescent patients of other nationalities. My husband and I talked the matter over quietly, and decided not to go to Stanley, to try our luck with the Japanese rather than go to a place where we would be completely isolated and entirely in the hands of people who had shown us very little consideration at any time. We were following an instinct only, but subsequent events entirely justified the decision. We therefore notified Dr. Selwyn-Clark that we proposed to remain where we were, if necessary with the Japanese soldiers when they arrived.\n\nAt six o'clock the morning of the 21st Dr. Selwyn-Clark telephoned to say that he begged us to go to the War Memorial Hospital on the Peak where we could be with our friends the Blackburns. He was so insistent that we agreed to this. I might add that orders for the evacuation of the War Memorial Hospital had already been given. The evacuation of patients had been going on all during the previous day, and during that morning of the 21st the Hospital Staff were packed into lorries and trucks together with a mountain of furniture and various kinds of equipment. They were then kept waiting for about two hours, no one knew why, sitting in the glorious sunshine; it all happened on a most lovely Hongkong winter day, and was a picturesque sight, the Sisters in their white veils and red-lined capes with gay paper parasols over their heads to shield them from the warm sun. Picturesque if one could forget the tragedy it involved.\n\nThe amount of luggage evidently annoyed the Japanese soldiers who began tossing out card tables and pouffs and other pieces of furniture and finally ordered everybody off the lorries and went through the mass of equipment, taking out all white blankets and mattresses as well as many other things. They could clearly be heard laughing when they were not shouting, and seemed to consider it all a great joke. Those same women went that day into bare rooms, just four walls and a floor, and very often the window and door blown out by shell explosions, or perhaps a hole in the roof. I wondered how they slept and how they kept warm. I heard later that they didn't. They had neither beds nor mattresses nor chairs nor tables nor blankets, nor anything else they needed. The nights in the winter in Hongkong are very cold. And the floors in many of the rooms at Stanley Prison are cement or stone.\n\nDr. Selwyn-Clark told my husband later that never in his life had he seen anything to equal the savage cruelty the Japanese showed in the handling of patients taken there. One or two of them died on the way, if I remember rightly.\n\nno\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "content_text": "EXTRACT FROM OFFICIAL REPORT OF\n\n16.\n\n2.48.\n\nCHINA (INCIDENT, CANTON)\n\n26. Mr. Teeling asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any further statement to make about the recent incidents at Canton; and how far the Court of Inquiry has proceeded.\n\nMr. McNeil: His Majesty's Ambassador received a note from the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs on 26th January to the effect that the Chinese Government were conducting an urgent investigation into the Canton incident. His Majesty's Embassy were informed on 12th February that the report of the inquiry was still awaited and that His Majesty's Embassy would be advised as soon as the results were available.\n\nMr. Teeling: Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it would be advisable to have some form of public inquiry, at any rate, when the results have been learned?\n\nMr. McNeil: When the results are available, we will consider what further action is necessary, but I am quite sure we should await the results of the investigation which the Chinese Government have offered us, and which we know is going on fairly fast.\n\nMr. Gammans: Who was responsible for paying compensation for the losses incurred by British subjects?\n\nAir-Commodore Harvey: Is the British Consulate in Canton still functioning?\n\nMr. McNeil: I cannot say without notice.\n\n23", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590789, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947", "content_text": "I think it would be wise to prepare for the work of the seconded Foreign Service officer to be taken over by an officer of the Hong Kong Cadet Service at the end of the three-year period. On the assumption that we succeed in getting a Foreign Service officer, I would defer consideration of this particular recommendation for, say, a year, at the end of which time we should have gained some working experience of the arrangements under which the post is filled by a seconded Foreign Service officer. (This will also, incidentally, give the new Governor an opportunity of considering and expressing his views on this long-term question. I would not, however, mention this point to the Foreign Office, as it may provoke some action on their part in regard to the appointment of Sir Mark Young's successor.)\n\nAs to Sir Mark Young's third recommendation that officers both of the Cadet Service and of other Departments shall be enabled and encouraged as far as possible to establish and maintain contacts with Chinese as well as British officials in China, particularly in Kwantung, I still feel (see the third paragraph of my minute of the 26th February) that the objective we are after is more likely to be gained by individual contacts of this nature than by seconding a Foreign Service officer or any similar arrangement. The great advantage I see is that this will put all Administrative and other officers in a position to take external Chinese factors into full account, as necessary, in their daily work. I should, therefore, like to see something more definite in the way of plans for ensuring that these contacts are made. For example, arrangements might be made now for periodic visits by selected officers of the Hong Kong Service to Canton or Nanking under arrangements made with the Consulate and Embassy respectively, whereby, through luncheons, dinners, etc., they would be brought into contact with suitable Chinese officials. There would, of course, have to be some return of this hospitality, either by the Hong Kong Government or the individual officers, and I think we should be prepared to contemplate making financial provision for it. There is also the suggestion in my previous minute that a knowledge of China and its inhabitants might be made a condition of promotion in the case of the younger officers.\n\nI don't think that it is necessary for us to write officially as well as semi-officially to the Foreign Office on this subject, and I doubt whether it is necessary for you to trouble yourself to write personally to Mr. Dening, to secure favourable consideration of the Governor's proposal for the secondment of a Foreign Service officer about which, I should think, the Foreign Office would need no persuasion.\n\nAs our previous correspondence with the Foreign Office has been semi-official, I think that Miss Ruston might now send Mr. Scott a copy of this despatch reference No.7, saying that we are in full agreement with Sir Mark Young's first recommendation and, subject to Foreign Office views, hope that it may be possible to second a Foreign Service officer to Hong Kong for a period of three years.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947", "content_text": "C.O.\n\nREGISTERED No.\n\n54226/47\n\n39\n\nDRAFT AND RECORD Colonial Office, 34 66.\n\nLETTER SENT\n\nChurch House,\n\nGreat Smith Street,\n\nS.W. 1.\n\n20th October 1947.\n\nDRAFT\n\nMR. Layle\n\nMR.\n\nMR.\n\nCopies of\n\nENCLOSURES\n\n(62) and enclosure (63) and (65).\n\nFURTHER ACTION\n\nMy dear MacDougall,\n\nVide (1) 54348/48\n\nCloser liaison between Hong Kong and His Majesty's Embassy and Consulate staff in China\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 1st September, I enclose for your information copies of further correspondence with the Foreign Office.\n\n2.\n\nI think this will now enable you to complete discussions with Nanking on the detailed arrangements for the secondment of an officer of the Hong Kong Cadet Service to the Embassy. When these have been settled, we shall no doubt get an official despatch putting the proposal and the detailed arrangements for formal approval, and seeking a decision on any such details as cannot be settled locally, e.g. the problem of quarters, referred to in the last paragraph of Scott's letter to me of the 13th October.\n\n3.\n\nIt would, I think, be useful if the despatch also dealt with the effect of the adoption of this proposal for the secondment of a Hong Kong officer for service in the Embassy on the question whether Heathcote-Smith's successor should be a Foreign Service officer or a Hong Kong officer, which, as you know, has been reserved for further consideration.\n\nMinuit, who has been in to see us on two or three occasions, and who, of course, is aware of the proposal that he should be selected for this job,\n\nD.\n\nMACDOUGALL, ESQ., C.M.G.\n\n[4556B] Wt. 26930/440 50m. 9/45 C.N.Ld. 748", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 593729, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947", "content_text": "-6- \n\n23\n\nBeing obliged to take transport to Nanking when it offered, I had only time to contact the Director of Education in Hongkong by telephone. When I arrived back in Hongkong in December, I called on the Acting Colonial Secretary at his invitation, and both in the Secretariat and in the Education Department, some useful discussions were held. I also visited what remained of the University and saw its Chinese Library (virtually intact), and lunched with the Vice-Chancellor and some of the Professors and Chinese members of the Governing Body. At the same time, I renewed old contacts with the Services and made new ones.\n\n## NANKING\n\nFrom Hongkong, I flew direct to Nanking. Owing to Generalissimo Chiang's absence from the capital, many of the Chinese I wished to see were away, but I met the two Vice-Ministers of Education, the Presidents of the National Central University and Ginling Women's College, as well as the lecturers of the Department of Chinese in the National Central University. At the same time, there were discussions with HE The Ambassador, the Counsellor for Chinese Affairs and, on the Services side, with the Naval and Air Attachés. The subject of immediate interest to the latter was the course arranged for a group of RAF officers, ex-students of the SOAS, who were continuing their studies in Peiping under his supervision.\n\n## PEIPING\n\nI expected that my principal task in Peiping would be to see the RAF officers in training there. But this in fact occupied only a small part of the twelve days of my visit, as they had arranged so many contacts with Chinese and Europeans that I had not time to follow them all up. I was conducted to Universities, to informal meetings and private gatherings of Chinese, Americans, and British. Personal interviews and a little sightseeing occupied the remainder of my time.\n\n## SHANGHAI\n\nAs transport out of Peiping proved difficult to obtain, the American Consulate kindly arranged for me to travel by US Army plane to Shanghai. There, my time was chiefly devoted to civilian problems, and in particular to those relating to the training of recruits to commercial undertakings operating in China. I saw the Chairman and members of the Committee of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, whose views were later summarised in a letter to which I shall refer later.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 593789, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947", "content_text": "## 2. \n\n### (a) REPRESENTATIVES OF SERVICES\n\n| Name | Position | Location |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Bartholomew, Air Commodore | Air Attaché | Nanking |\n| Dalrymple-Smith, Captain | Naval Attaché | Nanking |\n| Field, Brigadier | Military Attaché | Nanking |\n| Hopkinson, Commander | RN | Shanghai |\n| Parrott, Captain | Resident Naval Officer | Shanghai |\n| Stewart, W/Car | Assistant Air Attaché | Shanghai |\n\n### (b) CIVILIANS\n\n| Name | Position/Organization | Location |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Aldington, G. | Counsellor, Consulate-General | Shanghai |\n| Boyce, J.R. | Consul-General | Peiping |\n| Cassels, W. | Hongkong & Shanghai Bank | Shanghai |\n| Ch'en | Professor, President of the National University | Nanking |\n| Chu | Vice-Minister of Education | Nanking |\n| Copland, Professor | Australian Minister | Nanking |\n| Dean | Butterfield & Swire | Shanghai |\n| Finlay-Andrews | Butterfield & Swire | Shanghai |\n| Fitzgerald, C.P. | British Council | Nanking |\n| Freeman, A. | US Consul | Peiping |\n| Fu Shih-nien, Professor | Academia Sinica | Nanking |\n| Gray, S. | Hongkong & Shanghai Bank | Shanghai |\n| Han Li-wu, Dr. | Vice-Minister of Education | Nanking |\n| Headley, G. | British Council | Nanking |\n| Hu Shih, Professor | Chancellor, Pei-Ta University | Peiping |\n| Keswick, J. | Chairman, Chamber of Commerce | Shanghai |\n| Lamb, L.H., O.B.E. | Counsellor, Chinese Secretariat, British Embassy | Nanking |\n| Roxby, Professor P.M. | British Council | Nanking |\n| Rigney, Rev. H.W. | Rector, Catholic University | Peiping |\n| Reifler, Dr. | Department of Chinese, Aurora University | Shanghai |\n| Stevenson, Sir Ralph | British Ambassador | Nanking |\n| Wu, Dr. K.C. | Mayor | Shanghai |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-617-5 Deportation orders against Yam Shuk Wong- Kin Tse- Yui Chung- Fong Siu- Madame Lui Sze... 18-4-1947 - 25-2-1949", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-617-5 Deportation orders against Yam Shuk Wong- Kin Tse- Yui Chung- Fong Siu- Madame Lui Sze... 18-4-1947 - 25-2-1949", "content_text": "# Subject: \n**WANG TIN JHU MONG ALA YA Wife LIN. VID.** \n**ANG JON 30 SAA**\n\nand \n\n## Report by: Date: \n3.I. Brooks. 18.10.47.\n\nA.2.3. B.\n\nSir,\n\nAs instructed I interviewed William Corls of the Netherlands Consulate who said he had some information on communism which he wished to communicate to us.\n\nMr. Corla is performing the duties of Immigration Officer at the Consulate and he quoted from two letters he had received from: \n1) Immigration Office, Medan, Sumatra; & \n2) Foreign Office, Batavia.\n\nThe subject of the letters concerned entirely **Banren** (Wang Yin Shu Jang Jon 3, Dutch rendering) and his wife Lin Tien.\n\nWong Chuk Yan\n\nA resume of the 2 letters were that Wang Yin Shu dang Jon Ji (Bahren) a notorious communist who left Singapore for Sumatra in 1942 became prominent after the Japanese surrender in orta matra for his anti-Dutch and Communist propaganda.\n\nHe was arrested this year by the Immigration Officers at Medan, Sumatra for not having valid immigration papers and Entry Permit.\n\nMuch prominence was given to his arrest in the Chinese Democratic League news organs in Singapore, and the Sumatra Branch of the C.P.I. presented a petition to the Governor of the N.E.I stating that although he was not a member of the C.P.I. he was closely connected with them and petitioned for his release.\n\nHe was released from custody on the 26.8.47 after signing an agreement to leave the N.E.I.\n\nWang Yin Shu and his wife Lin Yier left N.E.I. on the 14.9.47 by S.S. Van Heutz for Hong Kong.\n\nChinese Characters are not available.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-617-5 Deportation orders against Yam Shuk Wong- Kin Tse- Yui Chung- Fong Siu- Madame Lui Sze... 18-4-1947 - 25-2-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]