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been communicated". Meanwhile I had asked Sir Havilland
de Sausmarez to let me know at once on arrival at canton
whether he thought that I could personally effect any
settlement by seeing the Viceroy, and I received from him
a reply that "he did not think any good end would be
served by my coming up here at the moment". It had been
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in my mind to suggest to the Viceroy as a means of "saving
his face", that he should call upon the local Official of
the District in which the "Sainam" piracy had been commit-
-ted to pay the compensation demanded.
4.
The demand that the Chinese
oruisers employed for the suppression of piracy in those
waters should be underForeign control (e.g. of the
Imperial Maritime Customs) had at first been made a sine
qua non by His Majesty's Minister (Despatch of 10th. July,
1907) but had been withdrawn in view of the Viceroy's
opposition. From Sir John Jordan's telegram it now appear-
-ed possible that our insistence that the "Sainam" in-
-demnity should be paid as "compensation" by the Chinese
Authorities might also be attenuated into some form of
*settlement". But I learnt from the Admiral on the night
of the 6th. instant that Mr. Mansfield has succeeded in
making an agreement with the Viceroy whereby a sum of
money