Ito, Major-General, 25 7
Jackson, Sir Thomas, signs petition to London, 189
Japan, Japanese, cholera in, 97; Kennedy's statue removed by, 137; and Sun Yatsen, 191; in North China, 207-; declare war on Russia, 209 ; the Twenty-one Demands, 222; strongest naval power in the Pacific, 22 5; border violations, by, Craigie-Arita Agreement, 250; occupy Hainan Island, the �pratlys, Indo-China, 254; commanders, 257; invasion, evacuation of Kowloon, 25 8-9;
and the battle for Hong Kong. victory, 259-61; 268; war me morial Oapanese) blown up, 277; 29 3; war casualties, 3 3 6
Jardine Arnold Company, 23 8 Jardine House, 139
Jardine, J., 86
Jardine, Matheson and Company, at East Point, ix; origins of, 8; and opium, 10; opm 10ns on smuggling opium, 3 1; at East and West Points, 36; and the opium trade, 50; 57, 75; form a ship ping line, 160; as ratepayers, 161; 178; want coal concession
in New Territories, 197, 207;
and strike, 228
Jardine, William, 8, 9, 16; and
Palmerston, 20
Jervois Street, 5 5-6
Johnston, A. R., character, acts, 3 5; 38 , 39, 40, 41; house, 60
Joint Declaration . . . on the Ques tion of Hong Kong, 33 8-41
Journey to a War (Auden and Isher wood), caricatures Hong Kong personalities, 246
Jubilee Street, completed, 201 Judiciary, reorganization of, 136
Kadoorie, Mr (later Sir) Ellis, and The Helena May Institute for Women, 221-2
Kadoorie, Mr Lawrence (later Lord), post-war adventures re turning to Hong Kong, 271
Kai Ho Kai, Sir, and the first air strip, 221; see also Ho Kai, Dr
Kai Tak Land Investment Com pany, formed, 221
Kaitak, airstrip, airport, 221, m regular use, 23 5
Kellett island, 3 5
Kemp, J. H., and New Territories administration, 197
Kennedy, Sir Arthur, 1 29-3 7; background, 1 29; and law and order, 1 29-30; reorganizes police force, 1 29; reconstruction of Praya, reclamation, 13 1-2; and public works, 13 2-3 ; recom mends new water supply, 132 ; and Grant-in-aid scheme, 133; leaves for Britain, 13 4; wife's death, returns to Hong Kong, 13 5; invites Chinese to Govern ment House, 13 5-6; quality of his governorship, 136-7 ; death, 137; statue, r37; complains of coolie migration trade, 162
Kennedy Road, constructed, 131
Index 3 55
Kennedy Town, laid out, 13 2, tramway at, 206
Keswick, James, joins Chater in new company, 173
Keswick, William, dispute with Hennessy, 139; 141
Key, Sir A. C., 81
Keying, see Qiying
Kimberley, Lord, and the Museum dispute, 139; and the Keswick Hennessy dispute, 1 40; on coolie migration trade, 162
King George V School, Kowloon (formerly Central British S chool), 242
Kitasato, Shibasaburo, isolates plague bacillus, 188
Korea, war in, 277; war alters trade picture in Hong Kong, 29 5
Kornhill Estate, 286
93
Kowloon, Kowloon Peninsula, 21,
Kowloon Bay, shipyards at, 208 ; 221
Kowloon-Canton Railway, 2r4; modernized, 301-2
Kowloon City, in Ming and Qing dynasties, 333; 192; occupied,
194; and Western residence, 214;
rioting in, 309
Kowloon Fort, 9 3 Kowloon Point, ceded, 82 Kowtow, 80
Krakatoa, eruption of, and effect on Hong Kong sunsets, 178
Kresser, V., 99
Kuei-fei (customary gifts), and cor ruption, 209
Kwok A Cheung, shipping mag nate, 160, 161
Labouchere, Henry, 3 28
Labour Officer, post created 1938, 244; duties, 244
Ladybird, HMS, attacked, 250 Lamma island, 26
Lamont Dock, 65
Land Court, the, activities of, 198 Land Office, 61
Land sales, first, 34
Lantau island, luxury housing on, 287
Lapraik, Douglas, and the clock tower, r8o, 220
Last Supper, The (Chinese painting of), IIj
Lau Chu-pak, 222; pays tribute to May, 223
Law, Chinese and British, 49, 64,
71, ro8, 136; British, Chinese
con cepts of, 306-8
Index
Lawson, Brigadier J. K., 256 Lay, Horatio Nelson, 81 Legal repugnancy, 41
Legge, Dr James, 40; on Pottinger, 43 ; on Hong Kong, 55 -8; 57,
60, 104, 11 3, 11 6; and education
policy, rr 7; 128, 1 29 Legge, the Misses, 114
Legislative Council, the, set up, 40- 2; appointments to, 46; 48; on
opium tax, 50; additions to, 70-
1; and Bowring, 84; enlarged,
86; Bowrif!g disagrees with, 87;
88, 94; protests against paying for the military, 98; criticizes 'secret society', 108 ; 126; changes in constitution, 1 27; fin ancing reclamation, powers amended, 133; 148; with Hen nessy, r50; changes under Bowen and Des Voeux, 167-9 ; new Council first sits, 1884, 168; composition of Council, 182; 187; Marquis of Ripon suggests additions, 190; receives Lugard's memo on opium trade, 2rr; and boycott of trams, 218; 228, 230;
and Urban Council, 243; 244; protests against rise in taxation, 2 5 3; and the 'partial amnesty',
21 8; suggestions on Sino-British
negotiations, 3 22; changes m,
325; and the Basic Law, 325
Lei Yue Mun Strait, 208, 23 5 Leslie, Mr (of Dent and Son), 9r Lethbridge, H. J., 106, 3 29, 3 30,
331 , 332; quotes Auden, 3 10 Leung Hok Chau, 106
Lewis, Sir G. C., 94
Li Cheng, 226
Li-Fournier Convention, 1884, 1 70
Li Hong Hung attempts to assassin- ate May, 216-17
Li Hongzhang, patron of the Col lege of Medicine, 167; in China and Washington, 1 69; Viceroy of Guangdong, 194; and Blake, 1 94, r95
Likin (transit tax), 15 7, 158, raised,
173
Lin Zexu, Commissioner, ix; and opium, 1 1 ; arrives in Guang zhou, 17; opinions on Westerners and opium, 1 7-18; calls for sur render of opium, destroys opium, 18; 21-3 ; exiled, 23; hernia of,
63; fitted with a truss, 156
Lindsay, 0., 336
Lingding island, ix, 10, 18, customs
Lo Chen-kong, 106
Lo Man-kam, and strikers, 227 Lo Wu, bombed by Japanese, 250
Lobscheid, Revd W., appointed In- spector of Schools, 11 6-17
Lockhart, Sir J. S., ro9; recom
mends legal status for Po Leung Kuk, 109; r 83; on petition for a Municipal Council, 190; surveys New Territories, 193; present at raising of British flag in New Territories, 194; and New Ter ritories administration, 196-7; optimism over New Territories unwarranted, 198; 205, 216; twice administered the govern ment, 216
London Missionary Society, col- lege, 40; 212
Louisa (cutter), 21
Low, Kitty, Hennessy's wife, 145-6 Lugard, Sir Frederick, and technical education, 203 ; takes Viceroy of Guangdong on a tram, 206; 21 r; appoints layman as President of Sanitary Board, 210-11; speech suggesting founding of univer sity, 212; recommends the form of the university, 21 3; names his
successor, 216; 218
Lugard, Lady, and the university, 213
Lui Shou-kwan (Lui Shoukun), pioneer contemporary artist, 304
Lyall, 86
Lytton, Bulwer, on Hong Kong society, 84
Ma Chow-wang, 77, 83, 84, 85, 92 Ma Tze Keng (Smugglers' Ridge),
reservoir built, 19 9
Macao Steamship Company, 207 Macallum, H., appointed Sanitary
Inspector, 1 64
Macartney, Lord, 7
Macau, ix, 5; ceded to Portugal, 5;
British expelled from, 21; 72, 82;
coolie-brokers in, 162; 294; re
awakens, 302
McCoy, R. W., Colonial Surgeon, 153
Macdonnell, Sir Richard G., 103, opens Tung Wah Hospital, 104; rr9; on Hong Kong, 1 20; pre vious appointments, limitations to his actions, 1 20; unlike Bow ring, 1 20; discovers Government House unprovided, 121; calls Hong Kong a 'depot', 1 20; re
licenses gambling, 1 24; Order and Cleanliness Ordinance, r 23;
,
and the telegraph, 1 24 ; takes home leave, 1 26; cancels gamqL · licences, introduces Sikh, : police, 1 26; on crime, 1 26 ; ..nd
the Reform Association, 1 27; sets
up Police Commission, 1 2.9; san itary measures begun under, 153; a carbolic enthusiast, 153; de mands return of seized junk, 158; first episode in the 'blockade', 158; estimate of vol ume of smuggled opium, 159; reprimanded by Granville, 159
McDougall, D. M., 266-9, pays tribute to Chinese and Portu guese, 269
MacLehose, Sir Murray (now Lord), instigates setting up of the ICAC, 307; 314; on corruption, 3 13; on
Godber's escape, 3 14; and Lady MacLehose, 3 r5; and the 'partial amnesty', 3 1 8
Madrigal Society, the, 43 Magistracy, under construction, 3 5;
56
Magniac (trading company), 8 Malacca, 5, 56
Maltby, General, 253, 255, 255;
reviews defence plan, 256; 257- 61; in the 'battle box', 257; ad vises surrender, 261, his casualty
list, 278
Man Mo Temple, the, 106; aids Po Leung Kuk, 108; Committee of, 1 10
Manchester, 7
Mandarin Hotel, 299
Manson, Dr P. , on Sanitary Board, 165; starts Dairy Farm Com pany, 167; and College of Medi cine, 167; 187, 212
Manzhu Government, 73
Marble Hall, 23 5-6, 236
Maria Theresa dollar, 98 Maritime Customs, see Chinese
Maritime Customs Market, Central, 98
Marsh Mr (later Sir) W. H., new Colonial Secretary, 14 7; admini
sters government, 157; 164; takes Chinese editors to court, 170; and banishment orders, 1 70 Martin, R. M., Colonial Treasurer, 45; on opium tax, 50; on Hong
Kong, 51; 58
Marxism, attraction for Chinese, 225 ; affinity with Confucianism,
station on, 19 5
Llewellyn, Sir John, and report on education, 289-90
forms, 121--2; rebuked by Colonial Office, 121; borrows money, r22; and pirates; 123-4;
225
Mass Transit Railway structed, 301; 3 03
(MTR), con
Matheson, James, 9, 16, 27; erects
godown, 33; 36
M"'::ock, K., 3 28
Charles, 47, background, 91; 9 3; opinion on Chinese
wvrnen, 107; and police, 1 29 May, Captain (later Sir) Henry. and
the New Territories take-over, 194; administers the government, 205; 210; opens Tai Tam Tuk waterworks, 210; ZI4; Governor of Fiji, 216; background, 216; attempted assassination of, 21 6- 1 7, 2I7; and devaluation of coin age, 218; condemns Board of Vernacular Chinese Education, 218; thoughts on education, 218; keen sportsman, 220; stocks res en'oirs with fish, 220; sees dis aster at racecourse, opens second part of Tai Tam watenvorks, speech on virtues of water, 221 ; administration bisected by World War I, 222; leaves Hong Kong, Executive and Legislative Coun cils pay tribute to, 223; rose from cadet corps, 3 29
May, Lady, 216
Medical Officer of Health, made member of Sanitary Board, 187; 211
Medium Defence Battery, 2 5 5
Mercantile Bank, 23 8
Mercer, William T., 45-6, 52; and water supply, 87; still in Hong Kong, 91; 9I; leaves Hong Kong, 100-1; administers government, 121; leaves Government House unprovided, 1 21 ; ignored by
Macdonnell, 1 21; 1 22, 134 Mercer, Mr (of Jardine's), 57 Merchants, mercantile community,
Chinese, ix, 104, II 8
Merchants, mercantile community, Western, ix; established at Guangzhou, 23; 70; back Bon ham, 72; withdraw school funds, rr 3; lacking in civic pride, 1 27
Messer, C. M., and the New Ter- ritories administration, 197
Mexican dollar, 98 Middlesex Regiment, 1st, 25 4
Migration, Chinese, Hong Kong the centre o f, 161; to California, South America, Malaya, Aus tralia, New Zealand, 161-2; numbers for 1886, 162; penalties
imposed 1873, 162; voluntary emigration , increases (figures), 162; controlled by law, 163
Mills, Lennox A., opinion on Dis trict Watch Committee, 110; 3 29
Mint, the Chinese, 218
Mint, the Hong Kong, 98, 121; failure of, 1 22
Mirs Bay, American Fleet in, 193 Mitchell, F. W., appointed Post
master, 94
Mody, H. N., o ffers donation to Hong Kong University, 213; 23 6
Monckton, Sir \Valter, 3 20
Mong Kok, typhoon shelter com pleted, 221
Monmo11th, HMS, British cruiser sunk by the Emden, 222
Moorsom, L. H., retires, 13 2 'Moral six' clergymen, the, 125 Morrison Education Society, the,
school opened, 40; 5 7, 63, 11 2;
loses funds, 1 14
Morrison Hill, 57
Morrison, J. R., 40, 41
Morrison, Dr W., 86
Morse, A., in control of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpor ation in wartime London, later Chairman, unorthodox moves, 278
153
Morse, H. B., International Re lations of the Chinese Empire, 13 Mortality of Colonial Surgeons,
Mosque Gardens (later Mosque Street), 40; school in, 11 4
'Most favoured nation' clause, 31 , 80
Mount Elgin, Kowloon, Hennessy proposes observatory on, 148 Mountain Lodge, 146; Des Voeux
isolated in, 176; destroyed in World War II, rebuilt in 190 2, Blake moves into, 220
M11i tsai (mei z11), 108; Attornev General's opm10n on, 108; Churchill's opinions on, 228
Municipal Council, plea for a, 189; Marquis of Ripon's views on, 190
Murray, Dr L., appointed Colonial Surgeon, arrives, his report of sanitation, 96; calls for more hospitals, 15 2; retires, 15 3
Museo Boronico, Naples, 146 Museum, set up by Hennessy, 139 Museum of Tea \Va.re, the, 33 Muslim community, 40
Nacken J., depicts Hong Kong in 1873, 1 74-6
Nanjing, 29; Treaty of, 29; terms of Treaty, 30-1; Treaty ratified, 31;
60; Taiping in, 72; 74; and Bow
ring, 78-9
Napier, Lord, 1 2, 44
Index 3 57
Napoleon, comment on the British, 28 1
Nathan Road ('The Golden Mile'), riots in, 308
Nathan, Sir Matthew, and educa tion, 203 ; arrives in Hong Kong, 203 ; Sayer's opinion o f, 20 5; sets coinage to rights, inspires railway building, 20 5; enquires into
Sanitary Board, 209; leaves Hong
Kong, 210
Nationalist Government, the Chinese, 271-2; exploits labour unrest in Hong Kong, 273 ; 293 ;
defeats o f, 294; collapse o f, 309
Nemesis, HMS, 28 Nev.rcastle, Duke of, 90
New Territories, the, lease, 192; initial survey, 193 ; I93 ; report on, plans to raise flag in, 194; Chinese opposition to take-over, 194-5; land claims disputed, 197-8 ; slow evolution of admin istration, 198; administrative divisions, medical officer ap pointed, 198; water supply to, 199, 2I4; 216, 219, 244; bound
ary stones replaced, 278 ; post war transformation o f, 284-7; 300
Ng Choy, first Chinese appointed to Legislative Council, 144; back ground, 144; in financial trouble, 168
Ng Li Hing, grant to London Mis sionary Society College, 21 2
Nine-Power Treaty, the, and the Open Door Policy, 225
Ningbo, 5, 28; fall of, 29; 30, 65 Noble, Dr J. W., owner of first
motor car in Hong Kong, 219; 33°
Norman, Sir H., 104, 3 29 North Point, beach at, 219
Northcote, Sir Geoffry, 246-9 ; opens the China Light and Power Company's new power-station, 247; leaves Hong Kong, ill, 1940,
249
Norton, Lieutenant-General E. F., 'military Governor', 249
Norton-Kyshe, J. W., 3 27, 3 29
Nursemaids, Chinese, ix
Obsen'atory (later Royal), the, 148-9; Hennessy proposes name for, 148; cost, 148-9; named,
149; opened, 334
Occupation, the Japanese, 246,
250-64
Ocean ic, the largest ship afloat, 208 Offices, Government, 5 6-7
Index
Opium Commission, the (Calcutta), 183
Opium Ordinance, the, 18 87, 174 Opium ships, ix
Opium, trade in, growth, 9- 12 ; American, ro; Hong Kong as centre of, 42-3; British opinions on, 50; vessels engaged in, 50; monopoly sold to Duddell, later to Chinese, 50, 64 ; Indian crop, 6 5; tariff duty on, effective legis lation of, 8 r; 8 3; monopoly re introduced, 88; revenue from un der Hennessy, 148; amounts smuggled, 158 -9; worth in 1870, r 6o; likin tax raised, 173; increased smuggling, r 73; reac tions to Ordinance of 18 87, r74; use of opium forbidden in China, 2I r; valued by Lugard, 2I r; monopoly sold in r888, 174; smuggling, 173-4; agreement on phasing out, official ending of, 212; and corruption, 3 r3
Opium War, ro 'Overland route', 28
Oxfordshire, the (hospital ship), 270
Palmer, Major, observatory scheme, 148-9
Palmer and Turner, architects of the 1935 Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building, 238, 240
Palmerston, Lord, 4, r4, r5, r 6, I9,
19-20; orders fleet to Hong Kong, 20; letter to Chinese em peror, 23; dismisses Elliot, 24;
repudiates Convention, 28 ; 51 -
2, 68, 76, 77, 80, 88
Pannay, USS, Japanese apology for attack on, 250
Parade Ground, 62
Parker, Dr Peter, 63, 165
Parker, Admiral Sir William, zx;
arrives in Macau, 28-9 Parkes, Sir H., 79, 79, 8r, 93
Parliamentary grant (the Hong Kong Vote), 68, 69
Parliamentary Select Committee on China Trade, 5 r
Parsees, 64
Parsons, Sir C. A., inventor of steam turbine, r6r
Paunceforte, J., becomes a judge,
leaves Hong Kong, 136
Peace Preservation Ordinance, passed, 173
Peak, the, 87, 146, 176; area re
served, 2r 5
Peak Tramway, the, opened 18 88,
176; and society, 176-7
Pearl (schooner), 2r
Pearl River, see Zhu Jiang Pedder, Lieutenant W., RN, 34
Pedder Street, new Post Office on, 201; 216, 219
Peel Street, r 5 5
Peel, Sir William, and financial difficulties, 23 7
Peninsular and Orient Line, the, comprador of, r 54; 207
Pennefather-Evans, John, investiga tion into corruption, 3 r 3
People's Liberation Army, 277 Pepys, Samuel, and corruption,
308, 31 3
Philippines, linked by telegraph to Hong Kong, 334
Ph illippo, G., succeeds Bramston, 136
Pi Chengzhao, 8 r
Pin (petition), r 5
Pirates, piracy, 4, 48, 7r, 196 Plague, 184-8 ; 'hospital', r 85; first
Westerners die of, 187; cause discovered, 187; returns in 1894,
187; returns in 1898-1900, 200;
216
Plover Cove Reservoir, 286, 300,
302
Po Leung Kuk, the (Society for the Protection of Women and Chil dren), 107-ro; founded, 107-8; ordinance to assist, ro8; called a 'secret society', ro8; opening, I o9; achievements, contacts with Registrar-General, ro9; powerful force, rro; rr r, 142, r8r
Podgoursky, designer of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank's mosaic, 240 Pok Fu Lam, pool, 87; scheme to obtain water from, 96; conduit built from, 13 2; Dairy Farm at,
r67; r8 o, 219
Polarization of society, first under Pottinger, 43; 64, 77, 83 -4; in creasing under Bowring, 88; under Robinson, 99; ro3, 104-
5, II I, 134-5 , 13 6, 13 8-9,
r44ff. ; breaking down in busi ness areas, r 4 3; under Hennessy, 147; r52 ; during the plague, r86; in Clementi's time, 23 5;
308-12
Police, 69 ; corruption in, r r r; May's opinion of, r 29; in 20th century, 1 29; corruption in 1898, 209 ; composition in inter-war years, 24 5; and just post-war, 270; training school opened, 270; corruption in, 309-19; honoured by the Queen, 3 r 2; morale, 3 r7
Police Commission, findings, r 29 Police Force Ordinance, 3 r 8
Police stations, 62
Poor whites, 64
Pope, J. (Civil engineer), 46 Pope-Hennessy, J., 146, 330
Population, 5 8-60, 6 5; swelling,
72; doubles, r 8 53-9, 87; further growth, 97; growth in numbers of Chinese, 103-4; census, 107;
growth again in 1872-6, 142; fall in numbers of British males, 1872-6, 142; census r88r, 143;
shows 3 2 per cent rise in r 5
years, 15 2; post-war rise, 27 1;
upsurge, 274-5; unique post-war increase in, 280-2; new floods of refugees, 29 5; influx of indus trialists, uniformity of Chinese in Hong Kong, 296, 3 3 5
Port Shelter, 254
Portuguese, 5; flee to Hong Kong, 72; flee from Hong Kong, r88; stand for Urban Council election, 24 3; occupy higher positions,
269
Possession Point (Mount), 27, 3 5,
55
Possession Street, 3 3
Post Office, 57, 102; stamp issue,
94; new building begun, 201 ;
completed, 214, 2I5, 216 Pottinger, Sir Henry, medals, ix;
arrives in Hong Kong, 28; 28; background, 29 ; sets off up coast, 29; 30-r, 35, 38 -43 ; death of
brother, 43; resigns, 43; 44, 45,
57, 60, 68, 1 14
Pottinger Street, 40, 5 6
Praya, new, 87; Bowrington, 88; destroyed, r 3 r; proposed rebuild ing, 132 ; work continues, 148; Des Voeux Road, r 7 r
Preposterous (ship), 123
Price, J. M., opinion on Victoria (city), 131; replaces Moorsom, 13 2; on Executive Council, 134; suggests new observatory scheme, 149; r 53
'Princely hong', the, see Jardine, Matheson and Company
Prisons, 62; escape from, 95
Prisoners of war, 262, 2 63
Private Sector Participation Scheme, 285
Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 109
Protector of the Chinese, new office, 85
Public Health and Building Ordi nance 1 903, inspired by Chad wick-Simpson report, 200
Public Record Office, London, 3 2 7
Punch, 191
Punjabis, 2/14 (Infantry Battalion),
25 4, 25 5; retire toward Tai Po,
258
Punti, 95, 333
Puyi, made Emperor, 2 15
Qianlong, emperor, restricts trade,
5
Qing government, 73
Qingdao, 294
Qishan, Viceroy of Chili, 4, 5; Viceroy of Guangdong-Guanxi,
23-4 ; dismissed, 24; 27
Qiying, Imperial Commissioner, 24, 3 r, 42 ; Viceroy of Guang dong-Guanxi, 44; dispatches to Davis, 44; 49; on opium policy,
50, 53; 60, 6r
Quarry Bay, 33, 206
Queen's College, 40, rr4, r8r, 203,
35, 5 5,
5 6,
Road,
34,
Queen's
ix,
2 1 2, 242
73, 83, ro2; fire in, 150
Racecourse, racing, and Davis, 5 3; begun in r 840s, May attends, 22 r; disaster at, 22 r, 221; Happy Valley renewed, new track built at Sha Tin, 303
Railways, Hong Kong-Guang zhou, Guangzhou-Hankou, 205-6; funding, 205-6; Kow
loon to border completed, 2 14;
to Guangzhou, 2 19; post-war resumption of Kowloon Guangzhou (KCR) line, 272
Rajputs, 5 /7 (Infantry Battalion),
254, 2 55, 336
Ratepayers, Chinese, the largest m 1881, r6r
Rawling, R. B., RE, 96 Reclamations, Chater (Pedder Street
to Western Market), completed 1905, 206; 2 10
Record Office, the, 3 r, construction of, 35; 60
Red Rover (opium clipper), ix
Reform Act, in Britain, effects m Hong Kong, r 27
Reform Association, 127
Reform Club, formed, 275 Rehousing, resettlement, after Shek
Kip Mei fire, 284; in the 1970s and 1980s, 2 85-7
Report of the Housing Commis- sion, 154
Repulse Bay, 219; Japanese at, 261;
settled in the 1920s, 2 87 Repulse Bay Hotel, opened, 2 r 9
Repulse Bay Road, Japanese Governor Isogai lives in, 273
Revolution, the Chinese (1949), r Rickshaws, introduced, ror
Ripon, the Marquis of, r89; dis patch reviewing history of Hong Kong constitutional reform, r 8 9
Roads, 62 ; development of, 2 19 Robertson, D. B., Consul at Guang
zhou, 158
Robinson, Sir George, at Guang zhou, 13
Robinson, Sir Hercules, back ground, 90; opinion of Hong Kong, 90; 9r; sets up public en quiry, 91; revives cadet scheme, 92 ; civil servants' pensions scheme, first civil list, publishes Government Gazette in Chinese, 92 ; proposals for Kowloon, 93-
4; reorganizes courts, 9 5; pro poses minting coinage in Hong Kong, 98; pessimism about Hong Kong, affection for it, neglect of sanitation, roo; departs, 102 ; and Board of Education, 117; 308;
cadet corps formed, 3 29
Robinson, Sir William, r 8 2-93; background, 192 ; r83 ; speech to Legislative Council, r 8 2 ; alters accounting system, r 8 2 ; almost balances budget, r 84; and plague, 184-8 ; remarks on 'calamity' of plague, 187; wife dies, 187; opinion on China, r 8 8; and negotiations for New Territories lease, 192 ; leaves Hong Kong, 191
Roman Catholic Mission Schools, and the Portuguese, r r 3
Roosevelt, President of United States, 2 65-6
Ross, Sir R., on origins of plague, 187
Royal Air Force, obsolete aircraft,
25 4; total destruction by
Japanese, 2 58
Royal Asiatic Society, The, Journal of, 107, 3 27, 3 2 8, 330
Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, the
philanthropy of, 303
Royal Observatory, the, see
Observatory
Royal Rifles of Canada, 3 3 6
Royal Saxon (hulk), 9 5
Royal Scots, 2nd (Infantry Battal ion), 245; at Shing Mun, 2 58;
336
Russell and Company, r 5; compra dor o f, r8r
Russell, Lord J., on Bowring, 8 5
Russia, Russians, 76; 'aggression',
Index 3 59
76; 80; 135; designs on Far East,
169-70; action in Korea, 170;
occupies Port Hamilton, r 8 8 5, 170; alliance with Guomindang,
22 5
Rustomjee, Herjeebhoy, 63
Sai Ying Pun, army established at, 34; 60, 131
Sailing ships, the, last of, 207
St John's Cathedral, 40, 56, 62, roo, 176; window to Lapraik m, 220
St Paul's College, set up, 40; rr3 St Stephens College, Stanley, r 8 r,
Lugard's speech at, 2 r 3
Sakai, Lieutenant-General, demands surrender, 2 58
Saltoun, Lord, account of life in Hong Kong, 36-7, 43
Sam Mun, customs station at, 195
Sam shui (Chinese spirits), 39
San On County Gazetteer, 3 3 3; Hoklo and Tanka villages men tioned in, 3 3 3
San On District, evacuated in Qing dynasty, 3 3 3
San Po Kong, 3 ro
Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), King of, visits Hong Kong, 139, r50 Sanitary Board, the, origins of in
Chadwick Report, r 56; recon structed under Bowen, r 65; powers o f, r 65; new constitution in 18 87, 165; convenes on
plague, 184; 187; Marquis of Ripon on possible development of, 190; irregularities in, 209; Lugard appoints layman as Pres ident, 2 r r; reserves areas for Western habitation, 2 1 4-15; be
comes the Urban Council 193 6,
243
Sanitary Committee, appointed, 97 Sanitation, 39, 62, 86-7; last pri ority, 96; Murray's Report on, 96-7; appalling conditions out lined by Ayres, 15 3-5; in Guang zhou, r 5 6; Chadwick Report on, 156-7; 1 64-5 ; New Sanitary In spector, 1 64; the Ordinance of
r 8 87, r 65; Chinese against Sani tary Board, appalling living con ditions continue, 1 66; Blake im proves conditions, 200; acute problems concerning, 2 51
Sano, Lieutenant-General, Com- mander, 38th division, 2 57
Sqnspareil, HMS, 8 r Sassoon, Albert, 3 30
Sassoon and Company, comprador Ho Sai-wing's brother, 238
3 60 Index
Sassoon, Frederick, nominated to Legislative Council, 169; back ground, 1 69
Sassoon, Reuben, 3 30
Sayer, G . R., on Hennessy, 138; on population, r 82; on Chadwick, 198-9; on Nathan, 205 ; on change in appearance of Chinese, 216; 330, 331
Scarth ]., 3 29
Scharnhorst (German crusier) sink ing of, 222
Scott, J. H., and endowment of chair at Hong Kong University, 213
'Scramble for concessions', 191 Second World War, the, see World
War II
Secretary for Education, appointed, 289
Select Committee of Parliament ( 1847), 66, 68, 69-70
Senior Naval Officer, Hong Kong, 80
Sessional Papers, 3 30
Severn, Claude, 216, 230
Sexual morality, British and Chinese views, 107-8
Seymour, Sir M., 80, 81, 82
Sha Tau Kok, and New Territories border, 193
Sha Tin, before redevelopment, 286;
new town at, 287, 287
Shakespeare, William, 3 30
Sham Shui Po camp, conditions, privations of, 262
Shandong Peninsula, 3 3 2
Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, 1 69
Shanghai Cricket Club, 220 Shanghai, fall of, 29 ; 30, 6 5, 72, 8 r;
cable to, 125; effects of Treaty of Shimonoseki on, 207; port closed, 294
Shau Kei Wan, water supply from, 184; tramway at, 206
Shek Kip Mei, 282, 2 83; fire at, 28 3;
284
Sikhs, as policemen, r 26; as gaol guards, 1 29
Silk, II
Silver, 143-4; proposed revival of the Mint, 3 28
Simpson, Prof., and Chadwick, 199 Singapore, Kennedy returns from,
135; 144
Sino-British Joint Declaration, negotiations and signature, 320- 6; contents, 3 3 8-4 r
Sino-British Liaison Group, estab lished, 322
Sino-Japanese War, effects on Hong Kong, 207
Skirt String Island (Hong Kong), ix
Slevin, Brian, 3 r 7
Smith, Albert, 77, 83, 154, 328 Smith, C. C., 127-8 ; on Executive
Council, 134; opposes Chinese business infiltration, 143; 147,
3 29
Smith, C. T., 328, 329
Smith, the Right Revd George, Bish op of Hong Kong, 64, 77; and schools, 113; rr 6, 117
Smith, Middleton, 107
Smith, N. L. (Colonial Secretary), departs, 249; 266
Smugglers' Ridge (Ma Tze Keng),
199
Snowdon, F., appointed Puisne Judge, 136
South China Morning Post, 2 3 5, 250-r; 'Day of Good Cheer', 261; and the arts, 304; 331
South China Sea, r 23
Special Administrative Region (HK), Chinese proposal of, 287
Spiteful (vessel), and Davis at Bom bay, rr6
Spring Gardens (Spring Garden Lane), ix; temple, 40; drawn by Bruce, 55; 57, 72, 87
Squatters, 282-4 Stamp Ordinance, r 22
Stanley camp, conditions, privations in, 262
Stephen, Sir James, 46; and the law, 49
Stephens, M. J. D., and the clock tower, ror-2, 220
Sterling, P. I., Attorney-General, 46 Stewart, F., 117
Stonecutters island, ceded, 82; 93,
94, 95, 130 I s
Street lighting, gas 1865, 102; by
electricity r 890, 177
Strikes, pawnbrokers, coolies, cargo-coolies, 93, 136; engineers
and fitters 1919, 226-8 ; seamens and general, 228; employers' in comprehension of causes, 226; leaders of strikers, 226; causes of strike, 226; settlement, return of workers, 228 ; strike and boycott of 1925-6, 229-30; origins in
Shanghai, 229 ; ends, 229
Stubbs, Sir Reginald, arrives in Hong Kong, 224; and the strikes, 228; and mui tsai, 228-9; opinion on strike, 230; 230; politically out
of his depth, 23 3
Suez Canal, 132, 135, r6r
Sulphur, HMS, 26
Sun Yatsen (Sun Yixian), student, 167; 167; and Hong Kong neu trality, 191; letter to Governor, 191; marvels at Hong Kong, 219; links Guomindang to socialism, 225-6
Supreme Court, 71, 80, 82; new building begun, 201, completed, 214; composition · of under Clementi, 245; 300 ,
Surgeon-General (British Army),. condemns sanitary conditions in : _ Hong Kong, r 5 6
Sutcliffe, Charles, and Godber, 3 r 4
Swiftsure, HMS, enters harbour;
264 L
Swire, J. S., founder, Butterfield anct· � Swire, 206 ,.
Tagore, Rabindranath, on qementi · .
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