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ing with the case. The murderer, Liang A Chiu, who shot Dr.
MacDonald, has been arrested, as have also Chang a Ping, Ch'on
A Chiu, and Li A Chian, who were implicated in the piracy.
The important pirates having all been seized, I am now taking
measures to secure the apprehension of the rest, which shoald,
I think, be effected without much difficulty.
This province, as you are well aware, has always been
hotbed of piracy, and since my appointmont as Viceroy the
reorganisation of its policing arrangements has been my daily
occupation. Notorious pirate chiefs, such as Ou Hsin, Lin Eas
Ssu, Ch'en Ka Wang Hai, Tai Hei Hsiang, and Hou Ta Yang Chin,
have all been captured one after another, and in addition to
these, in three years altogether more than 10,080 pirates have
been punished, exclusive of those who, offering resistanoo,
woro killed on the spot. Formerly over one hundred, or even
soveral hundreds of eases of piracy were reported every month,
but during the last few yours, since the vigorous musdures
which I have taken, such cases, although they have of course
occurred, have been far less common. But the province is exton-
sive