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Sin
970.
10th January 1889.
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The Admiralty will have received a Letter from the P. O. P. and its inclosure representing the great and alarming increase of Piracy in the China Seas,
& I am directed by The Earl of Clarendon to request that you will call their Lordships' attention to this matter as one of urgent importance, looking to the amount of British Trade entering and clearing from ...