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the murder of the Captain, under the circumstances detailed in
the enclosed extract from the Enclosure.
leading local journal. "
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Dircotly this outrage
was reported to me, I placed -myself in communication with admiral Sir W. Dowell, Commanding
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Her Majesty's Naval Forces on — this Station, who lost no
time in despatching the "Midge" gunboat in pursuit of the Pirates . I also addressed the English Consul at Canton, (Mr. Gardner), requesting him
*"Daily Press" Oct 1961885.
him to
urge the Viceroy to rigorous.
action, which he (the Viceroy) has promised.
3.
It is well known
that this part of the coast of China formerly swarmed with Pirates. Indeed the group of Islands to which Wongkong
belonge
named by
Mad Ma
the
early Portuguese Navigators the Ladrones, or Pirates Isles. But
of late years Piracy had been Kept in check by the cruisers of Great Britain and of other
European
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