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known, but they
are
not on
this
account Stongsong dunks, can the Colony be reasonably held answerable for any Offences they might have been imagined to have committed, or to have been about to commit
Should Ster Majestip Government be pleased to sanction Smarming ordinance (to which
I have made allusion in
my Sespatch N.57 of yesterday) I shall be glad to introduce such a measure into the Legislative Council, but without this I to not see how
Can
be done by
Mune
by this hovernment
the suppression
than is done now
of Piracy- out of our Starbour and beyoud jurisdiction by versels not bearing
Flag.
i.c. of offences committed
Mm
At the
same
time
I
as
have already pointed out in the Despatch above quoted withou= gennine cosperation on the part of the Chinese and Portuguese Governments, a disarming bidinance might have the effect of inviting attack on Chinese ressels leaving Stongkong Starbou and thus increasing instead of diminishing the crime of Puracy With regard to the supply of
བ་ཡི
Arms to the Chinese Rebels I beg to