:
3.
guns,
arms,
and mew.
Another difficulty which struck
me is the want of an efficient system of registration, without which it has
been impossible to trace the
noners
itiese pratical repels, and draw the live between the private and trader.
ed the
This difficully encouraged
of
convasion
of the latter into the former, whenever
3.
favorable opportunity offered.
Being
auseions to consult
my
foreign colleagues points, I muited opinion, and received the replies from the French, United States and Dutch Senior Naval Offices on this station, copies of which are annexed for their
for their Lordships information.
in reference to chrise
4.
336
The letter of Rear Admiral Bell, Commanding the Minited States Squadron,
did not reach me in time to place it before Her Majesty's Minister in China, together with the reports which were submitted to him in the letter of which.
25 Sept. 1889. I have the honor to enclose a copy.
In addition to
my
writtin
communication, I was induced by the importance of the subject to visit Peking, and personally confer, not merely with Sue Ruitrerford Alweest, last also with his foreign colleagues
b.
The same
unanimity of opinion
in respect to the disarmament and
registration of junks
was
expressed by
Her Majesty's Minister, the French