Enclo. No. 1 in Mr. Carnegie's No. 365 of September 3, 1906.
Wal Wu Pu to Mr. Carnegie.
35556 Lock 28 (1996)
Peking, Tuangku 32nd year, 7th month, 9th day.
(August 28th, 1906).
776
Sir,
We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, concerning two cases of piracy of British launches plying on the West River, and requesting the issue of instructions to the Viceroy of Canton for the arrest and punishment of the pirates without delay.
On the receipt of your Note, we communicated by telegraph with Their Excellencies the Viceroy of Canton and Governor of Kuangsi, and the former has now replied stating that on August 10th, as passengers were taking their places on the British steamer "Jung-Fa" at the cain jetty of Nan-Tan-Chu in Kuangsi, the vessel was boarded by over twenty pirates, who opened fire on the soldiers conducting the inspection of passengers, and killed two of them, named Chu Chi and Li Yuan respectively, whilst three others, Chang Sheng, Lu Yun, and Ning Piao, wounded by the firing, were pinioned in the hold of the vessel. The pirates then compelled the vessel to proceed down-stream, and on arriving at Ta-Mu-Yung on the Meng River two more pirates, armed with rifles and revolvers, came to the assistance of those already on the launch, which was now forbidden to show any lights or to blow her whistle. In this way they rushed past the Customs Station at Wuchow at 9 p.m., and on arrival at P'an Lung K'ou in the district of Feng Ch'uan the pirates landed and made good their escape.
Orders were immediately issued to the Tao tai of Wuchow and