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Gunboats,
one or more to be kept at :-each port South of the_foo, able to pursue into shallow water and to seize or destroy any pirate Junks, This again falls to the Chinese-
Lastly the effective cooperation of Foreign Ships of War whenever
a large body of pirates had to be pursued or attacked.
or attacked so as to ensur
the total destruction of their fleets
and haunts involving combined
action.
Snak
measures carried out in succession or together would seem to promise effective repression in the first instance; and ous time enabled all to be made complete
and brought into operation together,
the suppression of piracy within :such proportions would,
could prevent any Kind of dunger to Foreign Ships Commerce, beyond which it ceases to be an international question..
These suggestions are
submitted for the consideration and opinion of the Representatives of Treaty Powers now in Peking in order that somer concerted action may. taken in communication with the
be
Young-li-Yamin and the respective Senior Naval Officers in the Chinese Sins with ow little delay as posible.
Sears
Teking, 11 February 1858.
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Acting Cedonial Secretary.