despatcher of the 8th int.
will be forwarded the Wat Inglist Mail.
ONFIDENTIA L.
Hongkong.
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Enclosures 1.28/3.
My Lord,
22
Government House,
Hongkong, 8th. January, 1908,
In continuation of my Despatch
Confidential of December 24th., I have the honour to en-
-close copies of further correspondence between the Com-
-mander-in-Chief and myself on the subject of Piracy in
Canton waters.
2.
Since the despatch of the Naval
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Patrol had not sufficed to induce the Viceroy to pay the
indemnity for the "Sainam", the next step to be taken now
became a matter for serious consideration. It had as Your
Lordship is aware been proposed formerly that steam-vessels
with Hongkong Police on board should be sent to patrol the
Canton waterways, but unless they landed in order to make
enquiry in the villages, this course would probably prove
no more effective than the Naval Patrol. The landing of
armed parties though a less drastic measure than the burn-
-ing of villages harbouring pirates, as suggested by the Foreign
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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