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Nan Hatung, and Le Chang.
The Water Police are in four Divisions, the Kuang An, Shao
An, Hui An, and Shao An, for the Canton Delta, the West, Bast,
and North Rivers respectively. The old-fashioned guardboats
used by these forces have not yet been entirely supersaded, 28
it has not been found possible to finish all the new boats,
These will be substituted for the older boats as completod,
Over 60 launches of various sizes are constantly patrolling
the
ious sections of the inland waterways and the open net.
The Teotal of Wuchow in Kuangsi, on the Kuang Tung frontier,
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has also been ordered to do his utmost with the naval and
military forces at his disposal to capture pirates.
When these forces are thus stationed at all important
places in my jurisdiction it cannot be said that I have taken
no steps to aradioate the evil,
With regard to the "Sainam* case, I am informed by TaoTais
Wen and Kung, my Foreign Deputies, who interrogated the crew,
that the latter stated that formerly the passengers on the
"Sainam" were occasionally searched, but that on this occasion
no search was mado, The consequence was that the pirates con-