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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE PIRACY PROBLEM.
(Contiuned from Page 10.)
"Action Stations."
MONDAY,
APRIL 25. 1927.
a
responsibility is, however, shifted to the Government. With that respon- The same spirit is shown in the let-sibility definitely put back on to the ter from the Secretary (China Coast companies, it is to be hoped that self- Officors' Guild) to the Secretary Sai interest or public opinion will lead to An Piracy Commission, dated 18th precautions being taken with December 1992, which contains this batter will, and therefore with sentence, That Arst sentence of the quotation given
ould more chance of being thorough. every vessel should cannot but excite astonishment if it in have Action Stations for repelling Whatever it was decided to do would to be taken at its face value. The attack by pirates, and exercise there
In any event bo more quickly done more charitable view probably is that in at regular intervals, such practice than now, when it appears that the it is a matter of propaganda only being recorded in Log Book."; and of #Scheme of Defence Committes" has boford it work often com the letter from the Marine Engineers' six months whole time Chinese Governments have
controlled Guild of the foreign plained that
same date, which covers
to bring all the ships concerned into areas of the country are responsible very detailed advice on the best use line with the Regulations; with little
then and have of possible defensive measures, such for all the flis of China,
les thereby. avolded responsibilities
Then grilles; steam pipes and hot water expectation that any organised "plan of cofenge" will be separately arrang same course still offers the same ad- hose, and the Commissioners have no
ed before the regulation "scheme of. vantages but in addition the pro- reason to think that the views of the defence is put out by the Committee. paganda habit has become so strong two Guilds have been altered by more among the Nationalists that even this recent events. opportunity, unreasonable as it is, entinat be resisted.
Lack of Co-operation.
the
The memorandum criticising the Minority Report, (Appendix III) deals very fully with this question of piracy from without.
of a
circum
This misplaced incidence seems to have occasioned a misapprehension It is reassuring to note that the
that appears in the Minority Report. officers of the sa. Sunning have That report, which hardly recognises proved that the compliment conveyed suficiently the Important distinction within and to the Mercantile Marine in the quata between piracies from This augurs ill for the immediate tien given from Abbott is still justi-piracies from without, carries the Go- possibility of co-operation, and the Bed, and that oficers are still prepared vernment acceptance
responsibl Commissioners feel that the maintento elect for service on the China coast ity, which it was forced by ance of this attitude with the continu-with all its risks and added respon- stances to assumio but which it cannot
by the sibilition. ed absence of any
fully discharge, to the furthest pos attempt by
sible limits, and lays the whole burden Chinese to carry out an elementary
on the Navy, apparently absolving international duty in their own ter- justify a recommendation for
owners, officers and crew from doing Independent action. Very strong re-
anything at all in their own interests. Government action was required to sons are required for such action, but
force a beginning. The last thirteen direct connexion with aovention
years have provided ideas, and con- in the last five years, ninc
siderable constructional work, which piracies
ahould not now bo in danger of los- having occurred in the last two years; in the absence if a stained or
ing their momentum, and experience which is not likely to be ignored. even serious attempt by any local authority to deal with an evil which
There is now more probability that has for too long made the
the experience gathered will be put notorious.*
to practical uso without, rather than This was written before the Bias
with, Government "interference." Buy raid on 23rd March, 1927, but is allowed to stand as a general zo- Hins Bay murely commendation: affording a conspicuous example,
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY Tues., April 26th, 3.00 a.m. Dius Bay at least supplies them in its
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PRESIDENT TAFT
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3. The responsibility for combat- ting piracies.
While the roots, remain, piracy will recur: and pending the necessary drastic action ashore, the Commission best has therefore to consider the means of mitigating the seourite, by way of preventing the operations of pirates on ships being saccessfully completel.
The Commissioners identify them-
selves with that memorandum, and
which they
that it is noistance from
the
hald the view that patrols by Navy over the whole of the actual danger zone are impossible to an ex- tent justifying any reduction of the internal precautions on board ships, merely complement; but to press for the Tho "extension
the NAVY, exter
already guards rivers, in the direction of estabilah- ing patrols off the seaward approaches to known pirate strongholds, and in the last resort, failing the co-opera- of tion of the Chinese authorities, destroying those strongholds by indo- pendent action,
which
(b) Piracies from within.
VIII. Recommendations and Conclusions.
The main conclusion to which the Commission has been drivou is that the conditions demand precautions and an organisation to resist pirates on board every vessel exposed to the risk of piracy: but that no system is worth the cost of installation or the trouble of organising, unless it is backed by a determination to resist and officers on the part of owners alike, who must necessarily co-uper- The Government ate to this end. hand in the organisation on board is openly unpopular, and, in lacking the essential co-operation of owners and officers, even constitutes an obstacle te the institution and development of voluntary schemes. The Piracy Pre- vention Regulations and thirteen years' experierce have given a valu- able lend; and the Commission is
Before considering in detail the question of piracy from within, it is pertinent to ask what netion a British man-of-war could take if it found a ship already in control of pirates. The dificulties confronting the com- From
mander, and the extra risks to which N. York
(a) Piracies from without,
falls intoll on board the pirated ship would The question naturally
be exposed are so alivious that they June 6 May 25 Pih-C'bra
two parts, piracies from without and
need no further elaboration. But the May 31 C'brg Ampin June
point emphasises again the supreme Juno 11 C'brg-Shmpin June 17piracies from within. The latter, at
necessity for all possible action to June 23 ore time practically unknown, seem June 15 mth.C'brg
to have replaced the former, once a June 25 brg.hmpin July 1
to commerce Prevent pirates gaining control, it standing
to send out only for long enough 200 Jun 28 brg-Shoptn July 6
the seven
signals te summon nasistance, Joly O brg-Shaptn July 15 throughout
taken steps
The Commissioners base their re- July 13 'bry Simpta July 19 Among Aquitania
July 23 Chrg S'hmptn
from piracy
with- July
that commendation principally on a consi-
of opinion that the rcs- July 27th-O'brg
deration of the proper incidence of Aug 3 out, the course of history shows that
action
for internal precautions Ang. 6 brg Shapin Aug. 1 action by the British Navy was al- responsibility for defensive
The possibility of within any ship.
organisation should now be Aug. 10 Curg Shmptn Aug. 16 ways the most important factor; but in connexion with the "Minority Report" it is interesting to quote the making an impregnable citadel of the thrown back upon the owners, who,
Bridge.
with the probability that by seeking the co-operation of their following from the "Encyclopedia of Dr
officers and considering their views, 11, pirates will not attack a ship, where
will at least be able to ensure that the Laws of England," volume
the conditions leave any doubt as to page 139.
their chances of getting clear with confidence the booty, has been discussed under section V.
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the with deal
An Ancient Statute.
seas. Beas. to to
"Not resisting Pirates is an offence by a statute of the reign of Charles II. (22 and 23. Car. II. c. II) whereby the master of any vessel of a burden not less than two hundred tone, and firnished with sixteen guns is for bidden to yield his cargo to pirates
on
Regulations Unique.
The whole of the existing Hongkong Piracy Prevention Regulations form an extraordinary and unusual piece of legislation; it is indeed probably Locally made regulations aro
or any force without resis by bond to observe them far outside
of less burden, or force than
to
It
be In
to
imposed upon ships which are bound pain of being rendered take charge of any English vessel
the limits of the Colony's jurisdiction, if the ship be re- afterwards; and if
by leased, and anything given the is by no means clear that the Re- pirates to the master, such gift and rulations cannot conflict with Board his share of the ship are to go the of Trade Regulations common to the whole British Mercantile Marine. owners of the goods. And any ship any event other authorities pee forementioned is forbidden to yield sumably have equal power to impose
Turkish to & lux
pirate, not having double regulations of their own making, so of the Hongkong that the value her number of guns, without fighting: "an extraordinary instance of the bond may quite easily depend on. courage and skill," observes Abbott, something beyond the control of the "which the legislature of those times bondsman. Further, the choice given attributed to English seamen, and. a captain, outside Hongkang which the exploits of succeeding gen-waters, between observing the condi prations have so often and so glorious- tions of his bond or of ignoring them in favour of the commonly held view ly exemplified."
that they conflict with the Board of Trade Regulations often ends in the defeat of the bond. The choice is the more readily mado in that some at least of the conditions of the bond tend to hamper the easy working of by the master a ship and the Regulations therefore other popular. One such opening for at- words to discourage the mariners from defending the
the ship, tack weakens the whole fabric, which every mariner who shall be found is already none too strong with the difficulty concerning the discipline of guilty of declining or refusing ag
the guards, and the doubts concerning aforesaid, shall lose all his wages due to him, together with such goods the dangers of carrying
s he hath in his ship and suffer in- near a compass, Very conflicting prisonment not exceeding the space evidence on this last point was uf six months, and shall during such celved, and the Commission can only time be kept to hard labour for his conclude that it is possible that in or their maintenance.
certain circumstances the danger may he a real one.
"Sec. G of the same statute provid- ed that if the mariners or inferior officers of any English ship, laden with goods and merchandise as aforesaid, shall decline or refuse to fight and defend the ship when they shall be or contmander ппу
thereunto color shall utter 1 start with the handicap of being un-
Still Holds Gond.
revolvers
and
T
in the arrangements which is essential. Where the pro- per spirit exists, the Commissioners are convinced that arrangements can be made which will go far towards climinating the risk of piracy, while if that spirit is lucking Government
This conclusion is no royal road to regulations will avail but little. the elimination of piracy, but the Com. missioners are satisfied that it goes to the heart of the matter, and that it must form the foundation of any attempt of whatever kind to mitigate the evils of piratical attacks,
Naval Patrols.
It is by no means intended, how- ever, that the Government should do nothing. It is the Government's part to press for all possible patrolling, and independent action if called for, by the Navy on the river and around Biss Bay, to encourge spots such as the installation of wireless, to con- sider the desirability of making t compulsory, and to facilitate its em- ployment by such methods as the re- duction to a minimum of transmis sion charges, to continue to make the unhealthy contre for Colony an
search and detective pirates by operations afloat and ashore, and in addition to afford all such advice and of the making assistance towards satisfactory arrangements on board,
· ឆ it may be possible to provide. In a purely voluntary scheme such as the Commission' favours the pra- vision of satisfactory guards for ex- offer dificulties to pri- ample
may vate companies. In this matter Gov- ernmont could undoubtedly assist, and under section VI above the Com-
achome missioners have outlined a which they anticipate would seeUTO the
necessary co-operation with the owners. There may be many details in which advice would be sought, But this criticism takes second
(the details of a system of signals The principle underlying this law place in importance to the considera- tion that the Regulations cause a mis-
is an obvious one), and the resources still holds goody though the circum placed incidence of
of the Harbour Office, and of others responsibility. stances have altered. No reasonably
as may be necessary, should be made The Government assumes through possible action by the Navy can pre- them some responsibility for the in-
available. In their recommendations is
full pre- vail unless it supported by
include in a gene- the ternal defence of a ship, and tho Commissioners caution and determined action on the
whole responsibility for any pos- be open to part of all those who may
aible conflict with the Board of attack. Service on the China const
Trade Regulations in emergency. must in these troublous times be held to include the risk of piracy, to presuppose a determination to re-
The value of the scheme of defence, aist. That this assumption mere pious hope is shown by an ex-
the satisfactory design and con- tract from the record of В meeting
struction of the grilles, the re- held at the Colonial Ofer to consider
liability of the Indian guards, and ・on· the China piracy
their supply (or want of supply, as July, 10th
1924. At
it has at times been necessary. to meeting;
there
were present detain
for which no guarda of representatives besides.
tely
available)those JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON MACAO STEAMBOAT Colonial Office, Foreign Office, the
matters lie with the Government and Co., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION Co., LTD.
Admiralty, the Board of Trade, and
they eat so deep into Internal man-- the Hongkong Government, the fol-
agement, that those concerned are and to con- encouraged to further e lowing
20 sider that the whole anti-piracy ques- tion in
a matter for Government Mr. D. Bramali, C.B.E., General alone. The fact, of course, la that at
sen discipline The Marine Engineers
and dection Secretary,
alono will count; without the Association
bert mando "acheme of defence" will Mr. J. Watson, Secretary, The Marine Engineers Guild of China. be worthless, and where they exfat the scheme is best left to thosa..whe (Representing also the China Coast
have to depend on it perhaps. for Oficers Guild).
Advice and their lives.
assistance The rel
relevant section of the minutes
can to freely given; but the respon renda:-
"As a preliminary to the considera sibility should be directly on owners tion of this suggestion, there was and officers. The companies at pro-
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071
and
no
const that
the
Mr. T. W. Moore, C.B.E., F.R.G.S., Secretary, The Imperial Merchants Service Guild.
were
Government Responsibility.
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ral shape applicable to all vessels the enquiry has alike points, whi shown to be most deserving of the consideration of owners in forming cessful piracy, and so to make even those concerned, and the available data should be equally at the dis- But the attempt at piracy unlikely: fence schemes. their own
(a) The bridge should be protected posal of each member, who would opinion may ou desired on the many
by grilles and dodgers, with have discretion to advise with or modifications nod theso possible
guards stationed at the un-without calling the remaining mem should be readily available.
hers to formal consultation. The re- (b) Subsidiary grilles should be sponsibility for the collection and provided, isolating the Officers custody of the records would natural- and lat class cabins as far as ly fall to the lot of the Harbour fastor, with the Harbour Ofice: as possible. (c) Careful attention should be the most convenient repository; and 1. The Government should - andes- given to points of detall such the members to be associated with include the Captain vour to induce the authorities at the as: the arrangement of lights him should
a Naval coast ports to make the searching at to assist the defence, a system Superintendent of Police,
Coast Officer still those parts
Tand more effective,
of alarm bells and a plan to Officer, and
ing. The
necessary steps should concontrate all Europeana on ing. should continue to press for the
from
time to
time be taken to bring co-operation of the Chinese authori ties to deal with
installation of the existence and nature of this the evil ashore. 4. The
compulsory Should effectiva co-operation continue wireless telegraphy should be con- Board and its personnel to the notice to be withheld, the Commissioners sidered, but in any event the Govern of those, concerned, especially the consider that HM's Governmentment should encourago its use and Shipping Companies.
The report is signed-by---A. H. reduction of charges f
for a system of Stewart, W. Davison, T. G. Woall, L. development by such means as, the
Pitcairn Jones, G. F. Hole, B. D. C. anti-piracy messages,
The Government should establish Welfo, E. R. Halifax (Chairman). Board to be the repository of all data connected with, piracy, which bould meet at say, quarterly inter
with a view to being in a
aların.
London, April 28.
Mr. George Eastman of Roches-
would be amply justified in taking independent action for the extermina tion of known pirate strongholds as a common international duty.
2. The necessity for all possible patrolling by the Navy on the rivers and on the const, especially in the should continue to be emphasised.
B. The whole of the Piracy Pre-ton to supply informerendees Company, has, given, £300,000 for vention Regulations should be re- when called upon. cinded, and the following recom. Commissioners is to reduce formal the establishment of a dental ton- mendations should be brought to the ties, and therefore, delay, to a mini-ailand: adenoid, clinte in London, of mum. The opinion and advice of the which will be associated with the notice of owners as the outlines. a scheme sufficient to enable a few members of the Board should be Royal Free Hospital. British. determined men to prevent a spc. severally or Jointly at the disposal of Wireless.
Bome discussion as to whether the sent pay all expenses for certain fitvicinity of such spots as Bins Bay, vals to consider 'the question genter, New York, head of the Kodak
Guilds had any objection in principle tings and guards ordered or provid Government. They have to the defence of a slip from within.ed by the The representatives of the Guilds little faith in their value, and in fow : Tho ninde it clear that they had no such cases do much to co-operate.
Government does nothing, beyond in- efection in principle and indeed sc copted as axlomatie the duty of the elating that precautions are taken, to defend their that the companies could not do at master and officera ship."
least equally well themselves. The
the
w