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FOREIGN OFFICE, Received 17 AUG 19
August 15th 1899.
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With reference to my letter of the 21st of April
I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to
transmit to you a copy of a further despatch which
has been received from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking relative to the increase of piracy
in the Chinese waters adjacent to Hongkong.
Mr. Bax Ironside is of opinion that it would now
be advisable for Her Majesty's Government to take
steps for the protection of British lives and property in the Canton waterways of the nature indicated in the warnings addressed by Sir C. MacDonald
to the Chinese Government in his note of February
18th which formed one of the enclosures in the letter from this Office above referred to.
I am also to enclose a copy of a letter which
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
Lord