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Shek Pai Wan, see Aberdeen

Shelley, A. F., Auditor-General, 46

Stanley, Lord, 39, 43, 46

Stanley (village), 3 5; barracks built,

Tai Kok Tsui, shipyards a :, ,i Tai Mei Tuk, 301

• ·•I

Shelley Street, r 5 5

Shen Zhen, occupied by Hong Kong Volunteers, 194; 195; murders

at, 196

Shen Zhen River, 193; Japanese cross, 258

Sheung Wan, 40, 46, r 3 r Shewan, Robert, r 8 r

Shewan Tomes and Company, r8r Shimonoseki, Treaty of, 207

Shing Mun, redoubt conquered, 258

3 5; temple at, 40; 60; school,

rr 5; pupils at school, rr 6; gaol built, 245; captured by Japanese,

261; settled in 1920s, 287

Star Ferry Company, post-war, 272; concourse, 309

Statue Square, 214, 24 1 Staunton Street, school at, r 14 Staunton, Revd V., r r6

Steam power, superseding junks, 1 60; impact of steam turbine on trade, r6r

Tai Mo Shan, occupie? by J-•.,· : i

forces, 25 8 ,

Tai Po, 219, transformed into ..,

town, 284-6; 301 .. .

Tai Po Hui, opposition to-the. Brirish at, 194

Tai Shan, customs station at, 19 5 '. ; Tai Tam, Tai Tam Gap, new re-.:­

ervoir finished, 219; Governor opens stage two of reservoir, 221· Tai Tam Tuk, waterworks, opened,

210



, .



Taikoo Docks, inspected by Lugard, 206; 208; size, 208; strikes at,

post-war, 2 72

Taikoo Shing Estate, 286

Taiping Rebellion, 23, 65---:6, 71,

72; Bonham visits leaders, 73 ;

80; effects on Hong Kong, 87;

280

Taipingshan, 33, 55; fire in, 72;

roo, 107, 15 5, r55; and plague, r 8 5.; resumed by government and razed, 188

Taiwan, blockaded, 294

Tan Chung-lin, blamed by Blake for obstructing take-over of New Territories, r 94

w.;

Tanka village, 3 3 3

Tarrant, :;ues Ah Lum, 8 3 -4; 91 Tea, packing, ix; 8, rr, 65 ; adulter-

ated, 135

. Teacher training, 290

Telegraph, electric, established, in­ fluence on Hong Kong trade, r 3 2 Tenement housing, Chinese, plans,

154

Thatcher, Margaret, 321

Thracian, HMS, 254

Tianjin, 65, 80; Treaty Port, 82,

250

Tian Wang, 72

Tide Cove, 254; Japanese approach, 258

Times, The, on Anstey, 8 3; on Hong Kong society, 84; opinion on Hong Kong 18 59, 90

Tolo Harbour, 254 Totmochy, M. S., 3 29

Town planning, after typhoon, 13 r-2; thwarted, effect of Suez

- Canal and telegraph, l 3 2 Trade unions develop, 229

Tramway, first section opened 1904, 206; boycott by Chinese, 2 r 8 Tre1ty Ports, foreign factories in,

3 r, 64, 66, 207; Governor's

:. .-1sdiction abolished, 74; 9 5, n- 7-8

Treary of Tianjin, terms, signature

of, So; Chinese refuse to ratify, 8 2; signing, Sr; supplementary, 8r; ratified, 1860, 82; 93, 158

Trench, Sir David, 3 r 3

Triad societies, 104; problems with, 174, 312

Trieste, 73

Tropic (opium ship), 95

Tsim Sha Tsui, murder of Chinese at, 20, 94; 208, 2 I 5

Tsuen Wan (Gindrinkers Bay), water brought from, �99; 254

Tuchman, B. W., 331

· Tuen Mun, site of Tang garrison,



Portuguese at, 3 3 3; new industrial

estate, 297

Tung, Captain B., 6r

Tung Lo Wan, see Causeway Bay Tung Lung island, fort excavated,

333

Tung Wah Hospital, 104-5; open-

ed, 104; reception hall, 104; subscriptions to, 105-6; . and Chinese interests, and advice to Registrar-General, 106; Eitel's description of, 107; aids Po Leung Kuk, 108; powerful force, I Io; r r r; mediates in boatmen's strike, 170; 181; criticized over plague

treatment, 188; in the 1920s, 243 Turkey, ro

Twenty-one Demands, the, 225 Typhoid fever, originating m

brothels, r 5 3

Typhoons, 1841, 34-5 ; 18 67, 127;

18 74, 130-r; 142, 176; 1906

(effects), 209- 10; 210



Unequal Treaties, 30

United Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils (UMELCO), kept informed of negotiations on 1997, 3 22

United Nations, the, embargo on trade with China, 277-8

United States, and opium, ro; 65 ; embargo on goods to China, 295 University of Hong Kong, 21 2-13;

proposed by Lugard, 21 2; chairs endowed, Colonial Office's cool reaction to, composition pro­ posed, origin of students, 213; first Vice-Chancellor, 2 r 3; insuffic­ iently funded, share in Boxer Indemnity, 243 ; Rockefeller Foundation grant, 243 ; Fung Ping Shan Library, 243 ; expan­ sion before World War II, 243 ; post-war problems and develop­ ment, 290-2

Upper Wyndham Street, 143

Urban Council, the, born from the Sanitary Board 193 6, 243 ; lack of power, its membership, 243 ; absence of enthusiasm for, 243



Verandah, 146, 3 44 Versailles, Treaty of, 224

Viceroy of Guangdong-Guanxi, 80; deputy to, r 8 1; 193; and Lugard,

206, 210

Viceroy of Hebei-Hunan, and rail­ way funds, 205

Victoria (city), early development, 3 2-40; name adopted, 40; in the

Index

18 40s, 55-8; in 1846, 56; in late

1840s, 57; 59; Ice House Street,

73 ; water supply, 96, roo; 'filthy', r 53; Chinese schools in, 115; 131 , 174-6; in the late 19th

century, 176-8; Lord Curzon on, r 82; in chaos as Japanese poised to attack, 259

Victoria, Queen, 26; and Hong Kong, 3 r; Golden Jubilee, 18 87, 176; statue commissioned for Victoria city, 176; death of, 198;

24 1

statue of, 201, 201,

Victoria Peak, 27

Victoria (steamer), r 2 5

Vo/age, HMS, arnves m Hong Kong, 21

Wa Fu Estate, 287 Wade, T., 80

Wai Sing lottery (Guangzhou), r8r Waley, Arthur, 327

Wallis, Brigadier C., 256

Wan Chai, 55, 223 ; mob violence

m, 311

Wan Chai conspiracy, the, trial, 31 6

War Revenue Committee, the, set up, 153

Washington Naval Limitation Treaty, terms, signatories, 225; 2 54

Washington Treaties, the, 224 Water supply, 35; inadequate, 87;

insufficient, 96; partial failure of, 96; proposed source at Tai Tam, r 3 2; work delayed under Hen­ nessy, 148; continuing inad­ equacy, 152; Tai Tam scheme started, 166; conduit from Pok Fu Lam constructed, 132; Tai Tam Extension scheme, r 84; from Tsuen Wan, 199; provision for the New Territories, 199, 199; Tai Tam Tuk waterworks opened, 210; Kowloon waterworks com­ pleted, 214; post-war position, 272; Plover Cove, High Island Reservoirs constructed, 3 oo-r,

302

Watson, A. S., 227

Webb, Sir Aston, designs Supreme Court, 201

Weihaiwei (Weihai), returned to China, 332

Wei Yuk, becomes additional un­ official member of the Executive Council, 190

Wellington, Duke of, and opium, 12

Wellington Street, 40, 5 5, 56

West Point, army established at,

362 Index



34; Navy decides against movL to, 38-9; 64

Westminster Review, The, 7 5

Western Street, 33

Whitehead, T. H., opposes grant to Po Leung Kuk, 190; signs petition, 189

'Whitewash Brigade', the, 186-8 Whitfield, Major-General H. W.,

closes gaming houses, 1 26; and West Indian police, 1 29; 134

Williams, A. K., 3 31

Wing Lok Street, 1 3 3

J.

Winnipeg Grenadiers, sent to Hong Kong, 256



Wood, H. J., 3 27

World War I, 1, 222-3 ; effects in Hong Kong, 222; ends, 223

World War II, 1, 2, 254, 261

Wyndham Street, 56, Ioz



Xiamen (Amoy), 5, 28, 29, 30; Japanese land at, 254



Yan Wo opium firm, 181

Yangzi (Yangtze) River, Valley, 80, 164, 222, 294

Yankees, 77

Yau Ma Tei, new drainage begun,

Youde, Sir Edward, Governor, takes part in Sino-British negotiations,



322

Young, Sir Mark, arrives in Hong Kong, 249; rejects Japanese sur­ render demands, 260; surrenders to Japanese, 261 ; taken prisoner (to Wusong, Taiwan), 261; 260; returns to Hong Kong, takes over administration, 273; 'new angle of vision', 273 ; the 'Young Plan', 273-5 ; leaves Hong Kong, 274

'Young Plan', the, 273 -5; provi-

sions of, 2 74 Young, Dr W. S., 212

166

Wong,

Y., 327, 3 28

Yuan Shikai, 222, 225


Wong, L. S. K., 332

Wong Nai Chung Gap, captured by the Japanese, 261

Wong Shing (Dr Legge's collabor­ ator), 106; appointed to Legisla­ tive Council, taking Jackson's seat, 1 69; background, 1 69

Yeh Mingchen, Imperial Commis­ sioner, 78-81, 82

Yellow River, see Huang He

Yi ('barbarian', 'tribal person'), 7; use forbidden by Treaty of Tianjin 1858, 80

Yilibu, Imperial Commissioner, 29

Yuen Long, transformation from

village to New Town, 28 5-6

Yung Wing (pupil), 112



Zhoushan, ··24

Zhu Jiang (Pearl River), 5, 10, 1 2,

28, 65, 79, 302



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