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fectly useless and no impression whatever has been rade or
the constant succession of pirsales.
I would again strongly urge on your excellency to
follow the precedent given by Their Sxcellencies Jui-L‡n
and Chang, and give the scheme I proposed a trial.
The orimes of robberg and amuseling are very near akin and there could be no loss of dignity in employing servants
of the Chinese Throne who have had experience in the sup-
pression of one of such erines in the supression of the
other. I take it that, as these rolibers are practically all shore drøllara,the most important duty will lie on the
local offistals,nomoly that of rooting out the strongholds
of the robbers ashore,
I avail,ete.