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Consul General Hanafiet
Admiral Li Chun.
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APR 6 1907
Jan. 31, 1907.
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sir.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your deepatah of the 15th inst.with reference to the method of dealing with the suppression of piracy on inland vators,
In reply to your proposition to plage guards on board esch launch to setrch the massengera for arms instead of making arrangementa for having the search made before the
passengers come on board, I have the honour to observe that this question was at the cutsat fully disousred between you, the Commissioner of Customs,Taotai won and myself, There is a very strong feeling that the nearch of bassongərs"
baggage on boară a ororded launch would be difficult and
unsatisfactory.I have only to mention the onse of a launch near Ruohow having a guard of five soldiers on board which wachs boarded by a boxt with paraengers, me guard hogan the search for arms but the disguised pirates immediately fired on them and wounded them all,one or two heine drowned. In the otse of the "Sainan" there were four In Aion guards, two European offisers and one passenger, all of whom had arma, but the pirates were victorious. In affraya such as thees on board launches the passengers would be sure to suffer. I cannot but think that the original proposition and the rules first drawn up are by far the better plɛr. As regards the question of the employment of Custors' Officers, I must repeat that at the interview with H.3.the
Viaoroy I proposed this plan to kin.1.3. then stated that
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