Bonham, Sir Samuel George, back ground, 67-8; financial con straints, 78-9; cancels public works, reorganizes civil service,
69 ; and the army, 69; and the land question, 69-70; sets up Land Committee, 70; and taxa tion, flogging, the legal system, 70; and taxing Chinese, 71; on piracy and improving the eco nomy, 71-2; and the Taiping, 7 2-3 ; visits Taiping leaders, 73 ;
retires, 7 3; 8 5
Bonham Strand, 7 2 Borger, Auguste, 33, r75 Borodin, Michael, 225 Boshan Wei Yuk, Sir, ix
Botanical Gardens, site of the Kennedy statue, 137; 176
Botanical Gardens Dept., 197 Bowen, Sir George, arrives in Hong
Kong, 164; reconstitutes Sanitary Board, 165; leaves Hong Kong, 165; on ratepayers, 1 69; re flections on Hong Kong, 178; achievements, 178-9
Bowring, Sir John, background, 75 -6; on his appointment as Governor, 75-6; 76; rushes north, 76; and Caine, 77; and the Executive Council, policy on China, 77; 78; former president, Peace Society, 77; Chinese opinion of, 7 8; correspondence with Yeh
Mingchen, 7 8-80; and the Arrow incident, 78-9; at odds with Hong Kong people, 84; and public works, education, sanitation, 84-6; disregards water scarcity, 87; proposes reclamation, 87-8;
opinion on education, 116; trebles school grants, 117; governorship summed up, 88-9; his adminis tration, 91; and cadet training scheme, 328
Braga, J. M., 3 27
Branding, 49, 1 26, 1 27, 1 29-30;
Hennessy's view on, 140 Branston, J., appointed Attorney
General, 136
Bremer, Commodore J. J., 26, 3 5
Bridges, Dr W. T., 77; sues Tarrant, 83; burns documents, 84; leaves
Hong Kong, 91; 100
Britain, declares war on Russia, 76; ready for war with China, 80; her attitude to gambling, 1 22-6; poli cy on devolution of power, 244; recognizes People's Re public of China, 279; British National (Overseas) passport, 3 24
British and Chinese Corporation, set up, 20 5; builds Kowloon
Guangzhou railway, 206
British imports, exports to China, 1 60-1
British, Western, opinion of Chinese, 15, 49, 60, 64, 78, 80, 81,
92, 110; on Chinese attitude to
education, 11 6; 135, 147, 169,
18 8; and separate residential areas, 214; and modern age of labour relations, 228; less arro gant, 231
Bronzes, Chinese, found in Hong Kong, 334
Brown, Revd Samuel, 63 Bruce, Frederick, 45, 6r, 93
Bruce, Murdoch, 5 5
Buckingham, Duke of, on gam- bling, 125; 158
Buildings Ordinance, 1889, 166 Building and Nuisances Order, 86 Burgass, R., 42
Butterfield and Swire, shipping company formed, 160; dom inates China coast trade, 207; deep-water berthing, Kowloon Point, 208 ; endows chair at Hong Kong University, 212
Cadet officers, and corruption, 209 Cadet Training S cheme, and Bow ring, 8 5; revived, 92; language
course m, 3 29
Caine, Capt. (later Major) William, 34; property speculation, 35; 36,
40, 42; Colonial Secretary, 45;
46, 56, 6r; Lieutenant-Governor,
76-7 ; sues Tarrant, 84; retires,
9o; 1 34
Caine Road, 1 5 4; Portuguese abandon in plague, 188
Calcutta, 8 1
Caldecott, Sir Andrew, brief ten ure of office, 246
Caldwell, D. R., 77, 83 -4 ; Protector
of the Chinese, 8 5; character, 91; suspended, 92; gambling agent, 125
Califorina, gold rush in, 6 5, 7 3 Cameron, Major-General W. G.,
administers government, 164; alters Sanitary Ordinance, 165; 171 , 174
Cameron, Nigel, 3 3 1, 3 3 2
Canal Road, 8 8
Cantlie, Dr J., 212
Canton and Macau Steamship Company, formed, 1 60
Canton Regatta Club, ix
Canton Register, The, 7, 16, 2 7, 3 6
Canton Times, The, cautions strikers, 227
Cantonese, language, speakers, 79
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Carlyle, Thomas, 'Aristocracy of the Moneybag', 308
Carnarvon, Lord, permits spread of Chinese businesses, 14 3; on Hennessy, 144; responds to Hong Kong merchants' plea, 159
Carrington, Sir J. W., new Com
mander of Volunteers, 191 Castle Peak, road reaches, 219; site
of Tang dynasty garrison, 3 3 3;
declared a sacred mountain, 3 3 3 Cater, Mr (later Sir) Jack, 3 15 Cathedral, see St John's Cathedral Causeway Bay, temple, 40; swamp
drained, 166
Cay, R. D., Registrar, 46 Cemeteries, 62, Parsee, 64
Central Building, 56 Central Market, new, 166
Central School, 117; building begun, 133; construction delayed, 148
Ceylon Rifles, 69
Chadwick, Osbert, sent to Hong Kong, 156, Report, 15 6-7; qualities of, 15 6; returns to Hong Kong, 198-9; Chadwick Simpson report, 200-1; report partially implemented, 200
Chai Wan, 300
Chailley-Bert, J., on life in Hong Kong, 178
Chalmers, Revd Dr, 212
Chamber of Commerce (British), set up 1861, 99; and the American Trade Dollar, 143; nominates Jackson to Legislative Council, 168-9; 169, 223, 23 1-2
Chamber of Commerce, Chinese, inaugurated 1887, 176, 181; pro
tests at tax, 2 5 3
Chamberlain, Joseph, vetoes sep arate New Territories admin istration, 193; 203 ; critical of report on education, 202; ap palled by misuse of Belilios and Hotung gifts, 203; on Western
residential areas, 215 Chamberlain, Neville, and Benes,
246-7; on Chinese habits, 215
Chan Kai-ming, 222
Chang Bocai, and Qing, 3 3 3
Chang, H. P., 3 27, 332
Changjiang, see Yangzi Chaou Chongling, 6r
Chater, Mr (later Sir) Paul
Catchick, host at a lunch, 140; revives possible linkage of East and West Prayas, 167; scheme for large reclamation, 171; and electricity production, 181; r82; signs petition to London, 189;
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becomes unofficial member of Executive Council, 190; 206, 2ro, 214; pays tribute to May, 223 ; 230; death at Marble Hall,
23 5 -6, obituary, 330
J.
Chek Chu, see Stanley (village) Cheng, Y. S., 337, 338
Cheong Ah Lum, 82-3
Cheung Sha Wan, shipyards at, 208, 223
Chiang Kai-shek, 266
Chimes, The, 18 1
China, 66; r�percussions of Taiping Rebellion, 71; and Hong Kong, and Christianity, 73 ; cholera in, 97; declares war on Germany, 223; abandons silver standard,
23 7; recovers tariff autonomy,
23 7; in turmoil, 280; Communist
triumph in, 280; 281; exports textiles via Hong Kong, 293
China Light and Power Company, The, foresight, 181; and growth of industry, 247; new power
station opened, 247
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, formed, 160
China Navigation Company, formed, 160; 207
China Review, The, 1873, condition of Chinese, 174
Chinese, the, on Christianity, 63; politeness, 80; labour recruitment of, 82; resent Treaty of Tianjin, 82; deported, 82; boycott the trams, 218; join the Volunteers, 25 1; privations under wartime occupation, 262; employed in higher positions, 269; first ap pointment to administrative-class posts, 275; petition against taxa tion, 276; characteristics of re fugees in Hong Kong, 279 ; eager to work, 28 1; linguistic uni
formity in Hong Kong, 296 Chinese Classics, the, 106, rr6
Chinese elite, emergence of, 103 Chinese Engineering Institute, 227 Chinese language, in trade, 207 Chinese Maritime Customs, 66;
formed, 81; loss ofopium revenue, 158; steam launches of, 160; 173, 186; stations in post-war Hong Kong, 278
Chinese Municipal Board, the, pro posal for, 13 6
Chinese opinions, on the British, 15, 218; on Hong Kong, 50; on the Chinese, 165; on Western medicine, 184
Chinese Recorder, The, 10
Chinese Seminary, 401
Chinese settlements, first, 3 3
Chinese Street Cries of Hong Kong, article in The China Review 1873, 1 74
Chinese University of Hong Kong, set up 1963, 292; constituent
colleges of, 292
Chinnery, George, 9 Chiu Chow, 300
244
Chow, Sir Shouson, first Chinese member of the Executive Council,
Chuanbi, Convention of, signed, repudiated, 24, 26
Chung-ying (China-Britain) Street, 193
Church of the Conception, con- secrated, 40
Church of England, 40
Church Missionary Society, 114 Churchill, Winston, and mui tsai,
228-9; on holding Hong Kong, 254; his orders prevent surrender of Hong Kong, 260
City Hall (19th century), museum, 139; 217, 299; theatre, scene of
enqmry, 309-10
Civic Association, formed, 275 Civil Affairs (Military Planning)
Uni� London, 265-6
Civil Hospital, enlarged, 97; roo Civil Service Examinations, Chinese,
absence of in Hong Kong, 104 Clementi, Sir Cecil, background,
23 3; 233; diplomacy, 233; recog nizes KMT, appoints first Chinese to Executive Council, 244
Cleverly, Charles, and Government House, 166
Clock tower, 101-2; demolished, 219-20; and Stephens, 220
Co-hong, the, 6-7, monopoly abolished, 30
Co Sinwan, Dr (Ts'o Seen-wan), strike-breaker, 229-30
Coastal regiments, 25 5
Coates, Austin, on the 'Whitewash Brigade', 186; on strikers, 227;
330
Cochrane, Lord, 6I Cochrane, Sir T., 6r
Colborne, General, protests to War Office, 134
Colonial cemetery, ix
Colonial chaplain, 40, 77
Colonial church, 56
Colonial Surgeon, 63
Commercial Inn, 56
Commonwealth Preference, 29 5
Communist Party of China, Labour
Secretariat of, and the Hoi Yuen, 228
Communist regime, 167
Compton, Charles, 51
Conduit Road, 96; origin of name, 132
Confucius, and the Tung Wah, 106 Conscription, 251
Constitutional Reform Association, and Executive and Legislative Councils, 244
Consul (British), at Guangzhou, 75,
79, 79
Consular Court (Guangzhou), 78 Convention of Beijing, 93
Cook, Capt. , 140
J. ,
Coolies, in mid- 19th century, ix; in 20th century, 23 r
Cooper, 3 3 2
Cornwallis, HMS, 29, 30
Corruption, in"Sanitary Board, 209; Chinese view, 209; ongms, opportunities for, instances, 209 ; police, 209; in ARP Dept., 252-
3; 306-19; roots of, 306-8 ; nature of, concepts about, 313; problems of eradication, 313- 14; and the opium trade, 3 13; Pennefather-Evans investigation of, 313
Craigie-Arita Agreement 1939, 250
Cressal, P. E. F., dies in Stanley camp, 25 2
Cricket, annual match against Shanghai C. C., 220
Crime, 48, 62, 71; Punti - Hakka
battle, 95; wave of, 1 26; serious
nse m, 1 27; upsurge m, 130;
kidnapping, 142
Crimean War, 76, 135
Crisswell, C., 343
Crown Lands Resumption Ordi nance, 166
Cultural life (in Hong Kong), grow ing, 3o4-5
Cultural Revolution (China), reflec tions in Hong Kong, 308, 3 ro
Cumshaw, 83
Currency, legal tender, reform, 98; post-war problems with, 271
Curzon, Hon. C. V. , 330
Curzon, Hon. G. N. (later Lord), on merchant fortunes in Hong Kong, 178; on Victoria (city), 182; 330 Customs stations (Chinese), re- moved from Shen Zhen, 19 5;
relocated, 195; r9 6
D' Aguilar, Major-General G. C., Lieutenant-Governor, residence,
zx; cancels 'Bamboo Ordinance', 48; 52, 53, Gr
D'Aguilar Street, 56
'Dairies' (Chinese), 153-5 Danish Trans-Siberian cable, I 25 Daughters of Charity, the, 1 14
Davis, Sir John Francis, at Guang- zhou, 13 ; Governor, 44-53,
background, 44-5; letter to
Stanley, 46; and monopolies, 47; raises revenue, 47; and the police, 47; attempts to register the populace, 48; on opium, 50; re
signs, 52; and China war, 53;
later career of, 54, 57; letters to Stanley, 60-r; 70; and educa tion, r r 3; proclamation on legal tender, 328
Deane, W. M., 126; reproved, 133 -
4; 229
Deep Bay, 193
Deep Water Bay, 219, settled in r92os, 287
J.
Dempster,]. C., army surgeon, harsh critic of the administration, 86 Dent and Company, 56, forming a bank, 98; failure of, 1 14, 121
Dent, Sir M., Gr, 88
Derby, Lord, approves new legis lature, r68
Des Voeux Road, 224
Des Voeux, Sir William, arrives in Hong Kong, 164; encounters petition against Sanitary Board, 166; and new building, 166; vacillation of, r 66; opinions on reclamation, 171; isolated in Mountain Lodge, 1 76; sums up Hong Kong's progress, 1 79
Diocesan Native Female School, r 14 Diocesan Native Training School,
II3
District Watch Committee, the Chinese, 109, rro-n; staff, origins, no; formation, aims, staffing, r r r
District Watch Force, no, 245 Donovan, General, objects to 'health
hazard' of Chinese housing, 143 ; and Executive Council, 147; and the military band, 147; complains of Chinese, r 56
Door Gods, r97 Douglas Castle, r 80 'Douglas Hotel', 95 'Drain gang', 95
Duddell, George, buys opium mon opoly, 50; speculation in land, 70;
takes over a bakery, 83; 307
Duddell Street, 177 Duppa, Brian E., 76
E Sing Bakery, the, 82
East India Company, officer, ix; and tea, 8; end of monopoly, 12
East Point, 3 3, 77
Eaton, Miss, 1 14 Edger, J. F., 86
Edinburgh, Duke of, in Hong Kong,
[20
Education, 62, problems of in Mac donnell's time, r r r-r8; thirst for, dilemma of, rrr; and West ern evangelism, rr 2-r3, dif ferences between Western and Chinese, r 12; Government assisted schools, r r 3; missionary schools, r 14; Britain and grants for Chinese schools, rr 3; secular versus religious, 1 1 6-17; school
population 1854, rr 6; cost, 117; girls' school in Victoria, r 17; school population 1865, 11 8; Stewart and the Central School, Chinese educational preferences in, rr 7; school population in r 877-82, r 50; success of Grant in-aid Scheme, 1 49-50; encour aged in the New Territories, 198; problems and progress, 202-4; university education, 21 2-13;
inter-war expenditure on, 242;
progress in, 242-3 ; teacher train
ing, 242; superintendent of phys ical, appointed, 242; post-war, 287-92; numbers of pupils,
288-90; Llewellyn Report, 1 89- 90; types of secondary schools, 290; post-war university develop ment, 290-2; Chinese University set up, Baptist College founded, 292
Education Act (in Britain), effects in Hong Kong, 11 2
Education Committee, the, policy of, 116
J.,
Edward VII, King, accession of, 213 Eitel, E. on the choice of Hong Kong island, 4, 5; on the seizure of Hong Kong, 27; situation in
1 843, 35; 37, 39; on Bible transla
tion, 40; 42; on Pottinger, 43, 48; on the Hulme dispute, 51; on D avis, 53; on Qiying, 53; on Hulme, 71 ; on ' Christian' force, on Bowring, 75; 76; opinion of
Robinson, 100; 108; on the Man Mo Temple Committee, r ro; on education under Davis, rr 3; his wife, 114; on the Stamp Ordin ance, 1 22; on gambling, 1 23; on
Macdonnell, 1 28; on Kennedy,
137; on land speculation, 143 ;
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his background, 145; r45; as first historian of Hong Kong, 14 5; on the Hayllar affair, 145-6; un popular in Hong Kong, 146; Europe in China, estimate of Hennessy's governorship, 146; and Hennessy's dispatches, 146; apology to Hayllar, 146; con tinues as Inspector of Schools,
146; turned down for post of
Chinese Secretary, 147; retires, 202; 327, 328, 3 29, 330; on
typhoon damage, 334 Elgin, Lord, So, Sr, 88 Eliot, Sir Charles, 213
Elliot, Capt. Charles, RN, 4; writes to Palmerston, 1 r; appointed to Guangzhou, r 3; background, 14; and opium, 15-16; calls himself yuan-chi, 14; surrenders opium, 18; forbids British to trade, 20; and first episode of gunboat dip lomacy, 21-2; dismissed, 24; de
clares Hong Kong a free port, 3 3; demarcates land in Hong Kong, 33-4; establishes first admin istration, 34-5; escapes death, 35, 68
Elliot, Elsie, hailed by protestor, 308 -9; sentenced by Hogan, 3 ro
Emden (German cruiser), exploits of, 222
Emergency Regulations, issued Sept.
1937, 246-7; of 1939, 251
Empress Dowager, dies, 21 5 Endacott, G. B., 2; on choice of
Hong Kong, 27; on Caine, 38; on Mercer, 46; on branding, 49; on 'poor whites', 64; on Bonham, 67; on Bowring, 75; on Hen nessy's administrative ineptitude, 149; 3 27, 328, 3 29, 330, 331,
332, 335 , 336
64
'European Century', the, in China,
Evans, Sir Richard, 321
Evening Standard, the (London), 3 20
Executive Council, the, set up, 41; 77, 91-2; and finance for reclamation, r 32; membership increased, 134; changes under Bowen, Des Voeux, 1 67; Ripon's recommendation on, 190; 228,
244; first Chinese member of
(1926), 244; membership, 275 ; expresses anxiety about 1997, 321; kept informed of negotia tions on 1997 accord, 322
Expeditionary Force, So
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'Factories', at Guangzhou, 6-7; re occupied, 24; fire at, 82
Factory Inspectorate, under the Urban Council, 244
Fanling Hunt, the, 246
Far Eastern Economic Review, 3 1 2
Feliciani, Antonio, 40
Feltham, S. C., designs for Fanling Lodge, 273; and the Japanese,
273
Fever, epidemics 1842, 39, 62;
death rate in 1848, 72
Fire, in Queen's Road, Christmas 1878, seen by Isabella Bird, 15 0- 1; 'dispensation of providence', 15 6; Shek Kip Mei, 283
First China War, 13
First World War, see World War I Fitters and Turners Guild, Guang-
zhou, 227-8
Flagstaff House (General's House, Head Quarter House, now Mu seum of Tea Ware), 33, 57
Fleet, Siberian, 76
Fleming, F., administers the govern- ment, 164
Flogging, 48, 49, 1 26, 1 27 Floyd, W. F., r55
Ford, Charles, advice on New Territories agriculture, 197
Foreign Office, General Correspon dence, 3 27
Foster, Sir Norman, architect of the new Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, 241
France, 80
Freedman, Maurice, 104, 3 29
Friend of China, The, 3 1 , 36, 48;
on Davis, 53; 83, 84
Fryer, Dr J., and St Paul's College, 113
Fujian Province, 11
Fujimura, Seichi, redesigns Govern ment House, 273
Fung Man-siu, 181
Fung Ping Shan, Chinese Library, given to University of Hong Kong, 243
Fung Wah-chuen (Fung Shui), back- ground, 181
Fuzhou, 5, 3 o
Galatea, HMS, r20
Gambling, 1 24-6; increasing m Kowloon, 130; 303
Gaol, gaolers, 56; inadequacy of, 9 5; Hennessy condemns, 141;
proposed move to Stonecutters island, 141
Garden and Afforestation Dept., active under Kennedy, 1 3 6
Garden Road, 61, 221, 311 Gascoigne, Major-General W. J.,
raises flag at Tai Po Hui, 194
Gazette, The Government, of May 1841, 4; published in Chinese, 92; warning on locally made 'cash', 144; and police corrup tion, 209
General's House, see Flagstaff House
Gibb, H. B., and the Legislative Council, 1 44
55
Gibb, Livingstone and Company,
Gibraltar, 7 3
Gimson, F. C., arrives in Hong Kong as Colonial Secretary Dec. 1941, 249 ; leaves Stanley camp, takes over administration, 216; as Lieutenant-Governor, 266,
267
Gin, Dutch, 11
Gindrinkers Bay, see Tsuen Wan Gind:rinkers Line, 254, 256, 257,
258
Gladstone, W. E., on Hong Kong, 31
Glasgow, 8
Glen Line, 207
Gneisenau, German cruiser, sinking of, 222
Godber, Peter, corrupt police officer, 314
Golf courses: Fanling, 219; Deep Water Bay, 219
Goode, Sir J., checks plans for breakwater, 1 49, 173
Goodstadt, Leo, on corruption, 3 1 2
Gordon, A. T., 61, 87
Government Hill, 61
Government House, and Pope, 46; burgled, 48; 60; tenders for, 61; completed, 72; roo; Chinese in vited to, 13 5-6; boycotted in Hennessy's time, 138; Queen's Birthday at, 147; 21 0, 230; flag raised at, 270; Japanese changes to, 273 ; 311
Governor, the, duties of, 41; pre dicament of, 66
Governors of Hong Kong, 341 Gower, Lord Ronald, impressions
of Hong Kong in 18 80s, 1 77-8; 330
Grantham, Sir Alexander, arrives in Hong Kong, 277; previous service in cadet corps, 273 ; policies, 277;
3 29
Grant-in-aid Scheme, Hennessy's success with, 1 49-50
Granville, Lord, on gambling, 125;
countermands closure of gaming houses, 1 26; reprimands Mac
donnell, 159
Grassett, Major-General A. E., re linquishes post, . sails to Canada, pleads for Canadian force for Hong Kong, 2 5 5
Grayburn, Sir Vandeleur, and new bank, 23 8; and airconditioning of bank, wartime in Stanley camp, 240
Great Britain, 6 5
'Great Praya case', 1 28
'Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere', 264
Green island, 259
Gresson Street, shoot-out, 223 Grey, Lord, 5 2, 68, 70
Groningen University, 7 5
Guangdong cu),ture, 3 3 3
333
Guangdong Province, 11 , 73, 103,
Guangxu emperor, 211 Guangzhou, street, ix; sole open
port, 5-6; 1 0, 20, 28, 30; mari time customs, 6; factories at, ix, 53; hospital at, 63 ; 64, 75, 76,
78, 81, 82; captured, 80; 100,
1 23; and battle for distributive
trade, 1 5 8; electric company established in, 181; anti-Western placards at, 18 5; rail link to Hong Kong and north, 205-6;
Chinese Mint in, 218; 227-8,
294, 301
Gui Liang, Sr
Guomindang, the, and Sun Yatsen, 1 67; First National Congress at
Guangzhou, 225 ; 226; co-opera tion with Communists, 229; forces on verge of collapse, 274 ; flees to Taiwan, 278
Gurkhas, 3 1 8
Gutzlaff, Charles, 21, 6r, So; on Chinese schools, 1 14- 15
Gutzlaff, Mrs, school in Macau,
l 12
Hai He (Pei Ho) river, 20
Hakka, people, 60, 95, 284; in San
On district, Qing dynasty, 3 3 3 Hallifax, E. R., negotiates with
strikers' employers, 227-8; on
the strike, 230
Happy Valley, racecourse, ix, 33,
57; and fever, 62; 67, 88, 219;
fire at, 220, 221 ; renewal of, 3 03 Harbour Office, the, construction
begun, 133
Harbourmaster, the, 6 5; and Hen
nessy, 147
Harcourt, Rear-Admiral Sir Cecil, arrives in Hong Kong, 264; as Commander-in-Chief Hong Kong, 266; 267; delegates
powers, 268
Harland, Major H. C., Royal Scots, and the Fanling Hunt, 246
Hawaii, King of, see Sandwich Islands, King of
Hayllar, T., QC, in dispute with Hennessy, 145-6
Haythorne, Colonel (Captain- Superintendent of Police), 91
Head Quarter House, see Flagstaff House
Heath, Henry, and the Enquiry, 309-ro; admits police corrup tion, 3 ro
Helena May, The, 221, 331 Hennessy, Mr (later Sir) J. P., 138-
5 1; background, r 3 8; character,
13 8-9; and the Museum, 139; opinion on mui tsai, rn8; liberal ideas, 139; invites the King of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) to Government House, 140; speech at Chater's lunch, 140; Irish nationality o f, 140; con demns Hong Kong's penal sys tem, 140; drops laws directed at Chinese alone, 141- 2; suggests use of Japanese yen, 143; ignores currency question, 144; and pre cedent of Ng Choi's appoint ment, Colonial Office suspicions about, 144; and Eitel in the Hayllar affair, 145-6 ; leaves for Beijing, 146; apologizes to Hayllar, accuses C. C. Smith, attempts to organize adminis tration to benefit Chinese, rela tions with his officials, 14 7; and Donovan, 147; fails to imple ment public works, confusion in his administration, 148; pro posal for an observatory, 148-9; implements Grant-in-aid scheme, 149- 50; 150; school population
increases under, 1 50; fights a fire, 151; seen by Isabella Bird, r 5 1; leaves Hong Kong, 151; opposes Western sanitation for Chinese, 156; his accusation from London, 1 57; the 'block
ade' under, r 60- 1
Henry, Roy, 318
Hermes, HMS, 72
High Island Reservoir, 286, 301 Hill District Rt:servation Ordinance
1904, 215
Hillier, C. B., 5 r
Hilton Hotel, 299, mob clash with police outside, 3 r r
Ho Kai, Dr, 109; appointed to Sanitary Board, op1mon on sanitary measures, 165; 184; signs petition to London, 189; 195, 212 ; see also Ka i Ho Kai, Sir
Ho Korn-tong, 222
Ho Man Tin, wells at, 199
Ho Sai-wing, son of Sir R. Hotung, chief comprador of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor poration, death of, 240
Hoare, Dr C. J. (Bishop of Hong Kong), drowned, 210
Hogan, Sir Michael, and Com m1ss1on of Enquiry, 3 09-10; sentences Elsie Elliot, 3 ro
Hoi Yuen, the (Seamen's Union), and strikes, 226, 228
Hoklo village, 333
Holl, W., 76
Holland, 75
Hollywood Road, 55, 95, 143 Halt's Wharf, facilities at, 208,
post-war, 272
Hon Man-wai, background, 226; head of Chinese Engineering Institute, 226; 227; persuades workers to return from Guang zhou, 227
Hong Kong, possibly the earliest oil painting of, ix, developmental stages, 1-3 ; uniqueness, 2, 3; reasons for annexation, 4; 9-ro; advantages, 27; terrain, 27;
ceded, 30; name adopted, 40;
climate, 34; scandals, 51, 64 ;
value of trade, 65, entrepot, 66; lawlessness in, 71; steamship communications, 73 ; 7 5; fears Siberian fleet, defenceless, 76; in Bowring's time, 77; and the Treaty of Tianjin, 80-2; as found by Robinson, 88 -92; resembles frontier town, 96; an 'anomalous colony', 99; Robinson's opinion of, roo; 100; dawning civic pride,
rnr; triads in, history of, 107; growth of Chinese institutions in, 103-rr; education in, rrr-18; in Macdonnell's time, 1 20-r; re cession, 121 -2; Stamp Ordin ance, 122; gambling in, 12 2-6; turmoil under Hennessy, 140-3 ; land speculation, 143 ; finances sound, 149; perennial problems, 152 ; the 'blockade', 157-61; in sanitary conditions in, r 5 2-7; battle for distributive trade, 161- 2; needs of emigrant community
Index 3 53
supplied, 162-3 ; defence works begun under Bowen, 1 70; effects of Franco-Chinese conflict, anti French boatmen's strike, riots, 1884, 1 70; New Praya begun,
172; triad problems, 174; a picture of Chinese life in 1873, 1 74-6; late r9th-century changes in, 176-8; first 50 years of, 178; plague, 18 4-8; electricity pro duction, r 8 r; non-Chinese pop ulation, Chinese population, and revenues in 1891, 182; retrenchment under Robinson, 18 2-4 ; defence contribution
doubled in 1890, 183; plague, 184-6; neutrality in Sun Yatsen affair, 191; Diamond Jubilee of, 198; military contribution rises to 20 per cent of revenue, 198; drought, plague in 1898-1900, 200 ; new public buildings begun, 201; enters 20th century, 204 ; now a major trading port, 207; trade growth, and causes, 207; docking facilities, 208 ; typhoon of 1906, 210; corruption in, 209 ; influx of Chinese, 210; official end of opium trade, 21 2; the University, 21 2-13; colony in a changing world, 213-14; public works in progress, completed,
214; influx of refugees on death of Empress Dowager, 2I 5; first cadet, May, becomes Governor, 21 6; first motor car, circular island road and one to Tai Po planned,
219; road development and social effects, 219; revenue rises, 221; gift to Britain, World War I take over by government of British shipping, 222; Gresson Street shoot-out, blaze at Sheung Wan shipyard, 223; end of the war, changing emphasis in life of, 224; changing Orient, 225-6; Guo mindang's effects in 1919, strike of Engineers, 226-8 ; 1922 sea mens' strike, general strike, 228; trade after lifting of boycott, 23 r; currency reform, 23 r-2; altered climate of opinion in, 23 2-3 ; Clementi and slum clearance, Queen Mary Hospital building,
Shing Mun Reservoir, 234; opin ions of society, 23 5; Royal Flying Club, death of Chater, passing of an era, 23 5-6; Imperi_al Prefer ence scheme adapted for, Cur rency Ordinance of 1935, 237;
changing emphasis in trade, 23 7;
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inter-war revenues and expendi ture, 241-2; slump of 1931, effects in, 244; changes in the administration, 245-6; new de partments set up at outbreak of war, 246; first emergency regula
tions 1937, 246; Hong Kong Defence Regulations r 940, prep arations for attack, 24 7; pes s1m1sm on economic prospects, types of local manufactures, drift of mainland Chinese companies to, new industries in, 248; state of industry, 248; shifting patterns
of trade post-I 8 3 7, 24 9; Govern or and Colonial Secretary leave, are replaced before invasion, 249; colony just priorto invasion, 2 50- 7; Japanese power, British unease, border violations, 250; flood of refugees, conscription, 25 r; cor ruption in administration, 252- 3; evacuation, 2 5 2; two budgets, rise in income tax, 2 5 3; colony surrounded by Japanese, 254; the garrison, defence plans, 254-7; naval strength, 254; defective in telligence, 2 5 6-7; preparation against attack, 257; invasion, 258; Kowloon occupied, 259; the
battle for Hong Kong, 260-1; Japanese landing in Victoria, 26 r; surrender, 261; occupation, 250-
64 ; liberation, 264-5; post-war
rehabilitation, 265-73; civil government restored, 267; flag raised at Government House, 270; demobilization, 270; cur rency problems, revival of trade, population increases, 27 r; re sumption of services, 272; the 'Young Plan', 273-5; admini strative changes, 275-6; colony gains financial autonomy, eco nomic recovery, 276; budget sur
plus, 277; trade revival, 277-8; relations with China, 278 ; Communists at border, 278-9; colony's changing role, 280; society in, 28 r; Britain sends troops to, 28 r; forces are reduced, 28 1-2; squatters, 282-4 ; record provision of housing in, 284-7; industrial transformation of, 293-305; sealed off from China,
294 ; new markets, 294; trade
figures for 1950, 295; physical changes in, formation of an in dustrial colony, 296; financial
statistics, 297-8; container port, rise in tourism, 298; Mass Transit
Railway and Kowloon-Canton Railway, 301-2; racing, 303 ;
growth of cultural life, 304-5; rioting in, 308-9; ICAC formed, 307; police corruption and ICAC, 315-18; negotiations leading to Sino-British Joint Declaration, 3 20-3 ; signature of Declaration,
3 23; effects of events of 4 June
1989 in Beijing on, 325; earliest written records of (Song), Tang garrisons in, Song army, navy, defeated east of, 3 3 3
Hong Kong Annual Report, 3 3 2,
335
Hong Kong Artificial Flower Works, dispute at, 3 ro
Hong Kong Auxiliary Water Police, formed, 171
Hong Kong Baptist College, founded 195 6, 292
Hong Kong Club (first), rn2; rules for exclusion from, 102; second building, 201, 20I; completed,
214; 220, 299
Hong Kong Daily Press, the, 3 34
Hong Kong Daily Telegraph, the, on attempt on May's life, 216- 17; 210, 330
Hong Kong Defence Corps, the (The Volunteers), formed, 222; 25 1; mobilized, 257; shelled,
bombed, 258
Hong Kong Defence Regulations, August 1940, 247
Hong Kong Dispensary, the, 56
Hong Kong Electric Company, The, begins production, r 8 r; 226
Hong Kong Federation of Labour, and strikes, 228
Hong Kong Hotel, 5 6
Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Company Limited, The, founded 1889, 172
Hong Kong Medical College, begun, 167; 188; graduate appointed in
New Territories, 198 ; 212
Hong Kong Morning Herald, the, sides with strikers, 227
Hong Kong Museum, Hennessy stops grant to, 139
Hong Kong Naval Defence Force (HKNDF), 251, 252
Hong Kong Observatory, the, named, 149
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orches tra, formed, 3 04
Hong Kong Polytechnic, the, develops from the Technical College, 288--9
Hong Kong prehistory, spread of
Chin, Han from Huang He region, 333
Hong Kong Regiment, the, formed, 170; and New Territories take over, 194
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, first Euro pean staff, 99; inaugurated, 98-9; 106; withstands recession, r 21; Belilios made director of, 14 5; old and new head office, 237-41; Art Deco style interior of new bank, origins of, 240; 239; opening of latest head office (1986), 241; pre-war office
blackout bill, 25 2; post-war
notes of arrive, 271; Japanese
Governor Isogai lives in, 273; takes over Hang Seng Bank, 3 09 Hong Kong Technical College, the, nucleus "of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic, 288-9
Hong Kong Technical Institute, the, set up, 203
Hong Kong Telegraph, the, on new observatory, 149; on the Peak Tramway, 177
Hong Kong Volunteers, the, re vived, 170; equipped with arms, r 7 r; 19 r; rout Chinese resisters, Kam Tin, 194
Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company, post-war, 272
Hood, Thomas, poem addressed to Bowring, 3 28
Hoppa, 9, 20
Hospitals, 63, on Stonecutters island, r 30; Civil, destroyed, r 3 r; Lock, 148; Civil, 1 64; Alice Memorial, 188; Victoria, com pleted, 201; in the 1920s, 243-4 Hotung, Sir Robert, presents a school to government, 202; en dows chair at Hong Kong Uni versity, 212; 23 8; reads address
of welcome, 273
House of Commons, the, and opium, II-12
Housing Authority, The, and the colony's record in rehousing, 284-6
Housing, Western and Chinese, 72 Howe, Sir Geoffrey, 320-4
Hua Shang, Sr
Huang He (Yellow River), 9, 20
Huangpu (Whampoa), r 5, 26, 6 5;
port facilities destroyed, 82 Hughes, A. W., Commander of the
'Hughesliers', 2 5 2
'Hughesliers', the ('Methusiliers'), 252
Hulme, J. W., Chief Justice, 46, 50; and Davis, 51; public enquiry, 5 2; leaves Hong Kong, returns,
5 2; 70; retires, 71 ; 90 Hunter, W. C., 343 Hutcheon, Robin, 3 3 1
Hutchison House, ICAC head- quarters, break-in, 317
Hyacynth, HMS (frigate), 21
Ice-house, the, built, 73 Ice House Street, 73, 177
Immigrants, Chinese, 7 3
Imperial Commissioner, 78, 8r, 81 Imperial Maritime Customs, see
Chinese Maritime Customs Imperial preferences, adapted for
Hong Kong, 23 7
Imperial Summer Palace, burned, 82
Import and Excise Dept., set up, 1 74
Import-export problems, 13 5 Independent Commission Against
Corruption (ICAC), set up, 307; recruitment problems of, 315; and Cater, and Prendergast, 3 1 5; work of, 315 -16; Annual Report of the ICAC, 1975, 322
India, Western, source of opium, 18; dependent on opium revenue, 50; export of opium benefits economy of, 13 5
Indian Mutiny, the, 80 Indians, in police force, 47
In do-China Steam Navigation Com pan� formed, 160; 207
Industrial Revolution, and Hong Kong trade, 8
Instrument of Surrender (World War II), 269
Ismay, General, Churchill's letter to, 257
Isogai, General Rensuke, Japanese Governor of Hong Kong, 273
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